On Feb 13, 2010, at 9:50 PM, steve roche wrote:
> Hello-
>
> someone has given me their old white iBook g3, since both of mine have the
> cracked motherboard problem. This machine runs OSX 10.4.5 and seems to
> function all around, except:
> I cannot update anything (it's got safari 2 on it), it just searches for
> updates, forever.
>
> I cannot open the Disk Utility. It freezes, and says that it needs a
> background program, which failed to open. It tells me to Quit, and try
> re-opening. But all controls are ost so I must force-quit. I just want to
> look at the HD and repair permissions, etc.
>
> I cannot download anything, even small, like Onyx ("failed to mount" or
> "Broken Pipe")
>
> So... like I said, it works perfectly for surfing the web (slow at 500mhz)
> but I can't
> access the HD. Even System Profiler spins endlessly when opened up and ATA
> is selected. I think it's a 60 gig disc, with only about 9 gigs used. No
> original operating disk, of course.
>
> I'm going to FireWire my other iBook (10.4.1) onto it, hoping it will repair
> the Hard drive
> glitches. Is this a bad idea? If it fails in mid-Clone, I may lose both
> machines?
>
> I could also just tear out this HD and put my old one in.. like I said my old
> machine has the cracked motherboard and will only stay on briefly.. but the
> old HD is good and has all my junk on it.
>
> I opened up the crash logs and found a lot of Palm Pilot thingies loaded in,
> which seem to have failed (pages of them), and also pages of confused disk
> Permissions.
>
> Dumped all the library Prefs (tho I don't know if that's bad or good)
>
> This computer had not been used in three years.
>
> Ayway, thanks
>
> I'm off to Mexico where it is not snowing.
>
> steve
Install and archive Tiger if you have it. Also the HDD full?
John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA
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