Hey guys,
Late last night, I ran into some problems with my iBook G3. It's the 700 Mhz model, with 384MB of RAM. Nothing else special in terms of hardware config (unless an Airport card is special). OS X 10.2.8.
Basically, the computer seemed to hang and I did a hard reboot, and upon starting up I got a folder with a flashing ? .
I can't seem to find my Install disc 1 to run Disk Utility or just boot up - hopefully I will find that when I go home tonight (or maybe I left it at my parent's place), but I checked using the Hardware Test CD and it didn't detect any problems.
I am having problems opening the CD drive, so I've had to open it using a paperclip. Sometimes it doesn't appear to be using the CD.
I also have run the Micromat test CD that came with Applecare (of course this machine is almost 4 years old so that's finished...) and it detected a problem with the Read Buffer last night, but then I guess the battery ran out while it was on the last test.
This morning, I ran the Read Buffer, Write Buffer, and Volume structure tests and the first two passed very fast (unlike last night), but the Volume Structure test failed. I'm not surprised since I've been aware I have issues with this before. I tried to repair before going to work but at one point it seemed to hang so I gave it another hard reboot.
Last night, I would sometimes get the apple logo with the spinning "clock", and sometimes I would get the ? but it would never get to the login screen.
Currently, it seems to just turn on and go to the normal blue screen but not display anything else. At some point, I have also stopped getting the startup chime, as well, which doesn't give me a good feeling.
That being said, if both the Apple Hardware Test and the Micromat software didn't detect anything physically wrong (unless volume structure is physical), does this mean my data should still be OK? Worst case scenario, I buy a new MacBook although I just bought a ticket to Japan so it's not a good time
Going to try safe mode tonight when I get home, if I can't locate my install disc and use that. (Can I boot using Install disc 2 and get to disk utilities?)
Any other suggestions? Will continue searching as I've seen some answers to similar problems.
One last thing, this morning, the machine loaded the Micromat CD quickly and burned through the tests I selected very fast. Last night, it was pretty slow. Probably unlikely, but maybe an issue with overheating?
Thanks for any and all help you guys can provide! Hoping I am not completely screwed
m
Late last night, I ran into some problems with my iBook G3. It's the 700 Mhz model, with 384MB of RAM. Nothing else special in terms of hardware config (unless an Airport card is special). OS X 10.2.8.
Basically, the computer seemed to hang and I did a hard reboot, and upon starting up I got a folder with a flashing ? .
I can't seem to find my Install disc 1 to run Disk Utility or just boot up - hopefully I will find that when I go home tonight (or maybe I left it at my parent's place), but I checked using the Hardware Test CD and it didn't detect any problems.
I am having problems opening the CD drive, so I've had to open it using a paperclip. Sometimes it doesn't appear to be using the CD.
I also have run the Micromat test CD that came with Applecare (of course this machine is almost 4 years old so that's finished...) and it detected a problem with the Read Buffer last night, but then I guess the battery ran out while it was on the last test.
This morning, I ran the Read Buffer, Write Buffer, and Volume structure tests and the first two passed very fast (unlike last night), but the Volume Structure test failed. I'm not surprised since I've been aware I have issues with this before. I tried to repair before going to work but at one point it seemed to hang so I gave it another hard reboot.
Last night, I would sometimes get the apple logo with the spinning "clock", and sometimes I would get the ? but it would never get to the login screen.
Currently, it seems to just turn on and go to the normal blue screen but not display anything else. At some point, I have also stopped getting the startup chime, as well, which doesn't give me a good feeling.
That being said, if both the Apple Hardware Test and the Micromat software didn't detect anything physically wrong (unless volume structure is physical), does this mean my data should still be OK? Worst case scenario, I buy a new MacBook although I just bought a ticket to Japan so it's not a good time
Going to try safe mode tonight when I get home, if I can't locate my install disc and use that. (Can I boot using Install disc 2 and get to disk utilities?)
Any other suggestions? Will continue searching as I've seen some answers to similar problems.
One last thing, this morning, the machine loaded the Micromat CD quickly and burned through the tests I selected very fast. Last night, it was pretty slow. Probably unlikely, but maybe an issue with overheating?
Thanks for any and all help you guys can provide! Hoping I am not completely screwed
m