IMHO iBook is PPC architecture, so won't start with any snow leopard, but leopard for PPC and not the latest release: but I suggest Tiger and maxing RAM, but the question mark shows no operating system installed, but might be also a defective (or absent,) hard disk.
It is possible to clone your main computer hard disk, but it depends wich is ...
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Da: D Stubbs <[email protected]>
Inviato il: 7 Apr 2010 - 09:16
A: [email protected]
Tests so far of a newly purchased (ebay) iBook, model A1134, 1.42 GHz, year 2005:
1) Turned machine on, get only the blinking question mark.
2) Inserted new Snow Leopard install dvd while it was 'on', it spun for a bit and then it self-ejected
3) Started up (with Snow Leopard dvd already inserted) with 'c' held down and got two symbols I am not familiar with: an arrow on right , and a circled arrow on left, neither were functional.
4) Tried booting from a cd of disc warrior, same no response
5) Command, Option, P, and R. to reset pram, still no change from blinking ? mark.
6) Started up with T held down, got the 'moving firewire symbol', hooked up cable to my G4 tower and got error message of " disc unreadable"
It also gave me the option to 'initialize it'.
7) Started up with X held down, just get flashing question mark
Sooo, am I right to presume it is likely the HD rather than some more ethereal problem?
Could it be merely the HD install connections?
(seller said it came with a 'newly installed' 320 Gb HD and 'no operating system installed')
Could initalizing iBook's HD from my main computer (via firewire) be a solution?
Looks like a nice next step-up from our 400 MHz Pizmo, sure eager to get it running.
Thanks for any suggestions!, Del
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