I have a 5 year old Ibook G4, which I belive just quit on me 4 nights ago.
Ive had problems with it the last couple of months, like spotlight not longer working, the wifi indicatior, batteri indicator and the clock dissapeard from the top hand right corner.. and could not seem to get them turned on again.
What happend; I was going to watch a movie with VLC, which kept switching itself of, I tried to restart it several times, but to no help. I then restarted the whole computer, but it would not boot up to the OS, but instead it was a black screen with a few lines written, but it did not stay on long enough that I could see what was written.
Afterwards the window with MacOSX is starting up.. and the regular light blue screen. Then the MacOSX "tablet" dissapeard, and all that where visible was the light blue screen, and the mouse courser.. I could not turn up or down the brighness of the screen, nor would the volume. I restartet the machine 3-4 times but the same results.
Tried the morning after, but to no use.
I did download a Flash blocker program 2 days prioer to this happening, but I dont think that would "kill" of the Mac.
I did try to restart it after some advice on another board, with holding the Shift button in.. this is what happend.
Darwin/BSD(m192k.studeby.ntnu.no)(console)
login:
password:
Then I wrote some jibberish as login and password.. it just keeps repeating itself over and over again.
I pulled out the network cable, and restart.. and this appears:
Uninet: monitor linkstatus, link is down
My name - ibook - g4. local (console)
Login:
Password:
And again.. it just repeats itself.
Also, I held in apple+s and wrote /sbin/fsck - fy, let it run through and it said: Found 34 files, should be 35. HD was sucessfully reparied. Mac HD appears OK. Then I rebooted.
No luck.. all that happens is I get the light blue screen, and the mouse courser.. which works fine..
What has happend to my machine? Is it dead? It's only 5 years old.. it has had such a short life...
Ive had problems with it the last couple of months, like spotlight not longer working, the wifi indicatior, batteri indicator and the clock dissapeard from the top hand right corner.. and could not seem to get them turned on again.
What happend; I was going to watch a movie with VLC, which kept switching itself of, I tried to restart it several times, but to no help. I then restarted the whole computer, but it would not boot up to the OS, but instead it was a black screen with a few lines written, but it did not stay on long enough that I could see what was written.
Afterwards the window with MacOSX is starting up.. and the regular light blue screen. Then the MacOSX "tablet" dissapeard, and all that where visible was the light blue screen, and the mouse courser.. I could not turn up or down the brighness of the screen, nor would the volume. I restartet the machine 3-4 times but the same results.
Tried the morning after, but to no use.
I did download a Flash blocker program 2 days prioer to this happening, but I dont think that would "kill" of the Mac.
I did try to restart it after some advice on another board, with holding the Shift button in.. this is what happend.
Darwin/BSD(m192k.studeby.ntnu.no)(console)
login:
password:
Then I wrote some jibberish as login and password.. it just keeps repeating itself over and over again.
I pulled out the network cable, and restart.. and this appears:
Uninet: monitor linkstatus, link is down
My name - ibook - g4. local (console)
Login:
Password:
And again.. it just repeats itself.
Also, I held in apple+s and wrote /sbin/fsck - fy, let it run through and it said: Found 34 files, should be 35. HD was sucessfully reparied. Mac HD appears OK. Then I rebooted.
No luck.. all that happens is I get the light blue screen, and the mouse courser.. which works fine..
What has happend to my machine? Is it dead? It's only 5 years old.. it has had such a short life...
