Sam, I agree with the others, the hd is toast. I had an emac with the same problem. I'd install the OS and reboot but it would hang. All the files seemed to be there so the only thing I can figure is the hd was damaged in areas were it stored important system files or maybe the controller was damaged and allowed it to write but not read files, either way it was toast. A new hd fixed that emac right up and I gave it to my mum who uses it daily now.
New HD FTW! Joe Reilly -----Original Message----- From: "sam.s" <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 22:06:14 To: G-Books<[email protected]> Subject: Re: iBook Failure HI I am going to make the problem that I have more clear. Spec: iBook G3 500Mhz 364Mb Ram 10GB Hard drive Problem: One i booted up my iBook and it came up with a black Screen (the one that tell you to hold down the power button and restart). I was told at first it was the logic board. But i tried to boot it up again it can to a stage of a blue screen with a spinning wheel, so i talk to my friend who is a Mac expert, he said it was the OS thats stuffed. He had no discs i could use so i linked it to his Mac and retrieved the files i wanted and that was it. 6 months later : Replaced it with a MacBook 1 year later from Black screen: Pulled it out of the closet and tried to fix it with a 10.2 install disc. I booted the iBook up from the disc no problem and i started the install i had to reformat the Hard drive therefore wiping everything off it. I continued the install it finished fine. I hit the restart button to boot it up into a new clean install of Mac OS X 10.2. But it just can up with a folder with a flashing question mark and the finder icon. I ran target disk mode on the iBook so i could see what the problem was with my MacBook using disk utility the result was this. Verify: Verifying volume “Untitled 1” Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume. Invalid B-tree node size Volume check failed. Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed. The same happen for the repair. I pulled my iBook apart to see if something had unplugged. I just came up with the same thing. Solution: Please help me fix my first mac any ideas will be appreciated! -- Thanks, sam sanders On Jul 5, 4:48 pm, sam sanders <[email protected]> wrote: > HI > I am going to make the problem that I have more clear. > > Spec: iBook G3 > 500Mhz > 364Mb Ram > 10GB Hard drive > > Problem: One i booted up my iBook and it came up with a black Screen (the > one that tell you to hold down the power button and restart). I was told at > first it was the logic board. But i tried to boot it up again it can to a > stage of a blue screen with a spinning wheel, so i talk to my friend who is > a Mac expert, he said it was the OS thats stuffed. He had no discs i could > use so i linked it to his Mac and retrieved the files i wanted and that was > it. > > 6 months later : Replaced it with a MacBook > > 1 year later from Black screen: Pulled it out of the closet and tried to fix > it with a 10.2 install disc. I booted the iBook up from the disc no problem > and i started the install i had to reformat the Hard drive therefore wiping > everything off it. I continued the install it finished fine. I hit the > restart button to boot it up into a new clean install of Mac OS X 10.2. But > it just can up with a folder with a flashing question mark and the finder > icon. I ran target disk mode on the iBook so i could see what the problem > was with my MacBook using disk utility the result was this. > Verify: Verifying volume “Untitled 1” > > Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume. > > Invalid B-tree node size > > Volume check failed. > > * Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.* > > The same happen for the repair. I pulled my iBook apart to see if something > had unplugged. I just came up with the same thing. > > Solution: Please help me fix my first mac any ideas will be appreciated! > > -- > Thanks, > sam sanders --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
