I came home from the airport after a short flight and opened my 15" PowerBook G4 Al 1.67GHz (i had just left it asleep) and the screen was frozen where I had left it a few hours before (the mouse moved, but it was a spinning color wheel). After force shutdown and reboot, I got the flashing '?'
I zapped the PR's ... no luck ... started with the OS install disc, and the drive did not show up in disk utility! so, i bought a new hard drive and put it in.
Same thing. Disk Utility doesn't see the drive. Now I'm wondering if it wasn't the hard drive in the first place. Is there some chance that the connection from the HD to the board is bad? How would that happen? I can hear the drive spinning...
Thanks for any help that can be offered...
I zapped the PR's ... no luck ... started with the OS install disc, and the drive did not show up in disk utility! so, i bought a new hard drive and put it in.
Same thing. Disk Utility doesn't see the drive. Now I'm wondering if it wasn't the hard drive in the first place. Is there some chance that the connection from the HD to the board is bad? How would that happen? I can hear the drive spinning...
Thanks for any help that can be offered...