they are at homemad jew said:Firstly, unplug all your peripherals. Can you boot it from the OSX discs (hold C)? If you can do this, then try using the bundles Disk Utility to repair your hard drive.
anything else? what does open firmware do?
fsck isn't working; it says my hard drive is OK, but still gets to the blue screen, then i get the gear over and over.mad jew said:I'd leave Open Firmware for now. It lets you mess with some of the firmware settings and we might need it later but try running fsck instead.
Sorry; was fencing all day- I won thoughmad jew said:Using the volume keys to increase the volume at any stage in the boot process should ensure the POST (bong sound) is heard next time you reboot. Safe Mode sounds like a very good step.
Mr_Brightside_@ said:Sorry; was fencing all day- I won though
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Yes, there is another Mac available (tomorrow), until then, I'm at home w/ the boot disks, Repairing Disk solved the startup chime (I THEN reset PRAM & NVRAM), so perhaps now Safe Boot will work; now, I get to the Mac OSX window, the blue bar loads a little, then the window disappears to a blue screen, and the gear symbol every once in a while. So I'll try Safe boot for now, and we'll see- if not, to work for an Archive & Install...mad jew said:Yeah, that's how it should work, but that doesn't mean it necessarily will work. Your machine's showing some pretty bizarre symptoms so certainly try adjusting the volume, but I don't know if it'll be recognised. Alternatively, reset the PRAM and see if that gets your volume unmuted. Having said that, I thin we might have bigger things to worry about than the startup chime.
Technically yes, but I wouldn't know where to start. Do you have any idea what changes you've made to the system that might have brought this about? To be honest, I think your best bet right now is to do an Archive & Install, so how hard would it be to get your discs back from home?
In the meantime, is there another Mac (Target Disk Mode) or an external drive with OSX on it that you could boot from to back your data up?
It hasn't worked... yet... but I sent it to the "shop" and they should be able to Save all my Data via Target Disk Mode or whatever, then Erase and Install my own iBook (which is too small to fit all my data, plus a fresh OSX) and hopefully then copy all my stuff back, without OSX itself. Or something like that. They know what they're doing.mad jew said:Awesome! So how did Safe Boot go?