Strange symble when my G3 Powerbook boots up

[bigredgpk]

Hi Everyone,
I recently bought OS X 10.3 off ebay and loaded it onto my Lombard Powerbook. It was all good for 4 days but now when I goto boot up I hear the DONG and the the spinny thing comes up but then I get a
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icon on the screen. Did my hard drive STB?

Thanks, Timmay

 

[WildCowboy]

Try following the instructions in the following Apple support page...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106805

 

[bigredgpk]

Try following the instructions in the following Apple support page...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106805

Cool, i'll try this when I get to work tomorrow.

Thanks, Timmay

 

[bigredgpk]

No Love :-(

No love from the Apple link to reset the NVRAM and PRAM... luckly I didn't have any files on the HHD so i'm going to blow it away and try to install Ubuntu (OS X disk are at home). Hopefully this will work any my Powerbook will live to see another day!

Wish me luck!

Timmay

 

[bigredgpk]

Ubuntu Brought it back to life!

So Loading OS X onto the laptop was giving me hell, video problems and fun stuff like that... but when I went to install Ubuntu I didn't have a single problem.

So now I have a Perfectly good Lombard powerbook running Ubuntu, but i wish it was OS X :-(

Timmay