Hello, thanks for replying and sorry for not being so clear: My model is as follows
PowerBook G4 Alu 15" 1GHZ PPC 1GB RAM Firewire USB DVI S-Video F***ed Battery I am not sure on the exact model number, and i don't really wish to take the pig apart AGAIN. But i can tell you that i replaced it's failing measley 60GB hitatchi HDD with a nice new ATA(since that's the only ones they take)160GB hitatchi HDD. Note that the original hard drive was listed as failing under the S.M.A.R.T. status in disk utility before i replaced it. i later opened it up to find a nice clean scratch on the top disk. I am running Mac OS X 10.5.8 leopard. Also, to be more clear on the startup thing.. When it boots, you press powr button, startup chime...HDD spins up. 7 seconds wait as it is with all ppc's. then the screen powers on to the grey beckground, and you would usually see the apple logo appear, then the spinning loader, but it sticks to the grey screen and refuses to budge. So, you have to either force shut down or restart it. so i restarted it while holding down to get into the bootable partitions list, but it will load and finish loading and nothing will appear. Also, if you want to try firewire, you hold down the T key on powerup etc, but now you have to wait about 2 minutes before the screen starts up and you get the blue bg with the firewire symbol. I have worked with macs my entire life and have now had to resort to a pc for main use as my life revolves around a big meaty intel processor extending past 4GHZ. but i keep my machine to take with me whenever i leave home, and it has been very useful. If it would help anyone, i would be happy to upload pictures of it booting and the bootable partitions screen etc, just let me know. Thank you all in advance if anyone manages to finish reading this without getting bored to death, as i really am in trouble now and i have no idea on what to do. -Sasuke (Alex) -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, 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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g-books+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
