Question Mark during bootup

[Reflow]

Hi all,

I just got my quicksilver to finally work and installed tiger. Now every time I reboot I keep getting the question mark and it won't load. Is it my hard drive going bad. It did not do this intill I did all of the updates on it

 

[grapes911]

I'm pretty sure that the question mark means the computer can't find the system folder. Boot from the CD and use the Disk Utility to Repair Permissions. If this doesn't do anything, I'd try reinstalling Tiger. You can use an Archive and Install if you have data you don't want to lose.

 

[Reflow]

I will try that when I get back to work on Monday.

Thanks

 

[doucy2]

alright man

what i recommend (that works every time)

boot from tiger cd
completely erase the whole hd using disk utility
and reinstall Tiger
this has always solver the ? mark problem for me 🙂

good luck if you need more help holler

 

[jocool5]

I have seen this work and still have no explanation
My teacher zaped the Pram then did a hard reboot. Got him into the os x and then did a permissions verification.

 

[Reflow]

I have seen this work and still have no explanation
My teacher zaped the Pram then did a hard reboot. Got him into the os x and then did a permissions verification.

That weird I have 3 and never had this problem before. So how do you tell if the hhd is bad. To me this is what I thought first when I went to work and booted up the machine. So I will try that and see what happens

 

[grapes911]

alright man

what i recommend (that works every time)

boot from tiger cd
completely erase the whole hd using disk utility
and reinstall Tiger
this has always solver the ? mark problem for me 🙂

good luck if you need more help holler

You sound like a windows user. Formatting should always be a last resort, not the first try.

 

[jocool5]

That weird I have 3 and never had this problem before. So how do you tell if the hhd is bad. To me this is what I thought first when I went to work and booted up the machine. So I will try that and see what happens

well to start if it sounds bad but if target disk mode wont work then that is a big indicator. At the HS i went to they had the apple techs there to look at this problem they have had som 50 Imac's hard drives go bad. the Imacs tehm selfs are rev B so i don't know what the issue is there.

 

[Reflow]

Looks like a bad drive to me. I tried disk utility and it did nothing. So I just replaced the drive. Now all good