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On 7/6/07, Chris Louden <[email protected]> wrote:
If you can boot from CD/DVD it sould have come with a hardware diagnostic disk. If you no longer have it you can download it from apples site as an iso and burn it to disk. On 7/6/07, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > A friend of mine, Gary, has the following Mac problem. > > Anyone have any advice? > > Roger > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Gary Chartier <[email protected]> > Date: Jul 6, 2007 4:09 PM > Subject: Mac problem > To: Roger Rustad <[email protected] > > > Thanks a lot for offering to help. Here's the problem at present: > > 1. Until today, the following has been the case for the last two > weeks: when I attempted to start up, the hard drive on my G4 (running > OS 10.3.9) would spin aimlessly. Attempts to start up from the > install CD or in Safe or Verbose modes were unsuccessful. > > 2. Today, I succeeded in starting up from Firewire hard drive. I ran > Disk Utility. (a) I ran Repair successfully. (b) I ran Repair > Permissions successfully, though in the middle of the permissions > repair process the disk I was seeking to fix spun for a long time. > The spinning finally stopped and the repair of permissions was > completed. > > 3. Unsure of the problem, I did a fresh install of OS 10.3. Starting > up from the install disks was now possible, for whatever reason > (perhaps because I'd been able to start with the system running, in > virtue of my use of the external HD). > > 4. The install appeared to be complete. Then, however, the computer > refused to restart following the installation. Instead, after it > began to enter shut down mode, the HD began to spin aimlessly. > > _______________________________________________ > 909linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux > > _______________________________________________ 909linux mailing list [email protected] http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux
