Hi I have a powerbook g4 1.67 17" High res, and I have a problem with my computer freezing. I have to reboot it, but when I reboot it, it doesn't post and searches for a disk in the superdrive. The only way I can get it to work again is by forcing it into open firmware, reset everything, then install leopard onto it again. I've had to do this twice now, with 2 different sets of memory: 2x512 and 2x1gb. Could it be a hard drive problem, or is it the logic board? I also ran apple service diagnostics and hardware tests. Everything checked out fine.
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pb g4 freezes, then won't boot
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when it freezes try this next time (to see if it's harddrive)
reboot
when you hear bong sound hold down command and s (this will put system into single user mode)
hold until you see some text
then type this fsck -y (with space between k and -)
sit back it could take some time
if no problems it will say "Disk X appears to be OK"
if it finds problems it modify above statement..thus keep running fsck -y until says disk is ok
reboot
may have to force it fsck -f
reboot
when you hear bong sound hold down command and s (this will put system into single user mode)
hold until you see some text
then type this fsck -y (with space between k and -)
sit back it could take some time
if no problems it will say "Disk X appears to be OK"
if it finds problems it modify above statement..thus keep running fsck -y until says disk is ok
reboot
may have to force it fsck -f
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