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My G4 Pb 1,33 won´t start up...
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Oslo, Norway
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Hi
Last night i started a game (Battlefield 1942) on my 2 months old G4 Pb 1,33. When loading the game, the Pb froze, and nothing happened. I waited a few minutes before trying to force quit it. Nothing happened, so I forced a shutdown with pressing down the powerkey for 5 seconds.
When I tried to start the Pb up again, it woldn´t load. Some times the screen goes grey, some times blue, and some times it loads all the way, before freezing with the spinning coursor.
I´ve tried starting it up from the startup-cd, but Disk First Aid won´t load properly, or it tries fixing (repair), but then freeze.
The harddisk keeps making the same zzz-zzz-zzz-noise over and over again, so I think it´s a software-problem.
Any suggestions? I think I have to reinstall the system, because I can´t start up from any CD.
-Please help me...
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Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: England
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If it's a clicking noise over and over that could be the hard disk.
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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Do you have an Airport Extreme card installed?
If so, try removing and re-seating it (to access it, remove the battery). Intermittent connection there can cause random crashes, freezes, etc.
Have you tried booting the Hardware Diagnostics CD?
Have you recently installed RAM? Often, this is flaky and can cause problems.
If this stuff is completely random, it is actually very likely NOT a software problem.
-s*
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Long Beach, CA
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The fact that your machine freezes when booted from the OS install CD says pretty plainly that it isn't a software problem.
My guess is that playing the game caused something to get hotter than it expected, and that exacerbated an existing problem. Try pulling any third party RAM modules, as that is very common. The Airport is worth a shot, as I have also seen issues caused by Airport Extreme cards before.
The hard drive making noises, though, is not a good sign. If you can boot from an external drive (or rather, target disk mode to another machine), backup your data ASAP. Then, run TechTool Pro's disk tests, including the surface scan.
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ACSA 10.4/10.3, ACTC 10.3, ACHDS 10.3
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Oslo, Norway
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Okay. Thank you all. I´ll try removing my extra RAM, but the PB have been working perfectly since I bought it a coupple of months ago (came with xtra RAM installed from my Apple reseller).
I have a Airport extreme card installed, and it´s been working great, even after the latest update from software update.
I got to confess, that even though I´ve had a Mac since 1990, I´m not too experienced in opening my machinery. I´ll guess I´ll find the how-to on the web.
-But if you guys think it might be a non-software problem, I think I´ll make a call to my reseller. 
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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Errhh...?!
I decided to try the startup disk yet again, and managed to run disk first aid sucsessfully (for the first time). BUT, when I restarted the PB, the screen went black, and went in to Darwin-mode (or whatever it´s called) displaying the following message:
"Darwin/BSD (PBname.local) (console)
login:"
Has my beloved mac gone all Windows on me? -HELP!
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