[MartiNZ]

I've just got my PowerBook back from attempting to be fixed - graphics card logic board issue somehow. The guy who worked on it told me that he managed to get the machine to start up by deleting the graphics drivers from /System/Library. I've just done an OS reinstall to make sure it wasn't a software issue, but now I have made sure of that and I'm back at not being able to start up.

It's a 12" 1.5GHz machine with the GeForce 5200FX card - I've started up in single-user mode to try to delete those drivers again, but I'm not sure exactly where the stuff is to delete. Anyone know the path? It's easier asking here than trying to get in touch with the service guys .

[ibook_steve]

That advice is useless. If you've done a clean install of the OS and the machine won't start up, the graphics drivers have nothing to do with it. Think about it. Why would deleting graphics drivers help? You may have a hard disk or logic board issue here. If possible, try installing the OS on and booting off of an external drive.

Steve

[MartiNZ]

I totally agree it is illogical, but it is the case. Through a little research I found out what I needed to get rid of, moved it using single-user mode and now it starts up fine. It seems that it really is the graphics card that is screwed up, and somehow deleting GeForce.kext lets it ignore that fact.

Now the only limitation is that I can't do anything that needs to use the graphics card ... *sighs*.