I have a Powerbook G4 17" running OS 10.2.6 which refuses to boot up.
It starts and then stops and at the same time a black rectangle about
30mm wide by 5mm high appears. It has 2 blue vertical lines and some
white spots. The boot up refuses to comtinuer. I have run the Apple
hardware tests and all is OK. I have run Diskwarrior 3 and it fixed a
few things including a directory wrapper and completed the directory
rebuild announcing all OK.
The last software installed was the i-sight update.
I can boot up from the original install disk but thats an old version
of OSX whicj I don't wish to re-install. I tried to boot up with the
first of the 2 original OSX 10.2 disks but that doesn't work (I am
holding down the C key on boot up) - and I find that really strange.
I do have a complete back up of the PBk hardrive as a disk image on
an external firwire drive.
Before I take it to the Apple centre and probably have to wait a week
before they look at it....
Ideas ?? anyone please
thanks
Doug Sheerer
