12" PowerBook G4 Doesn't Like Restarting

[Goftrey]

I bought my 12" PowerBook a few weeks ago now as the hard drive was dead, I got hold of a hard drive the other day and have since stuck the new hard drive in there. Everything works absolutely fine apart from the fact it doesn't boot up (hard drive doesn't spin up) when it's restarted. Why is this? It seems a bit weird that I can shut off, then boot up flawlessly but can't restart.

 

[adcx64]

Boot up into Open Firmware and type

reset-all

This resets PRAM and NVRAM and might solve your problem!

Hope it helps!

 

[Goftrey]

Just tried it, after it had reset itself it wouldn't boot up. I've only just got it to turn on now after 20 minutes of trying to get past the splashscreen.

 

[adcx64]

Just tried it, after it had reset itself it wouldn't boot up. I've only just got it to turn on now after 20 minutes of trying to get past the splashscreen.

Is there any jumpers to be set on the drive? Is the drive 100% perfect in place?

 

[Goftrey]

Is there any jumpers to be set on the drive? Is the drive 100% perfect in place?

There were no jumpers on the drive, and it's in 100% perfectly in place. It's absolutely fine when it does spin up but it just the fact that it doesn't spin up when I restart it, that's the thing that's really confused me...

 

[666sheep]

Boot up into Open Firmware and type

reset-all

This resets PRAM and NVRAM(snip)

No, it doesn't.

 

[kbfr08]

Try resetting the PMU, just hold the power button until you hear a beep.

 

[Goftrey]

Try resetting the PMU, just hold the power button until you hear a beep.

done that too...