[nfaulkner0]

hi my friend from work has given me his son's ibook.On it has osx 10 on there. He wants me to format it but it wants a administrator pass the problem is his son had bought it from a auction and he never had the administrator pass is there anyway of gettin pass it please let me know or reseting ?


People said to use the OSX cd i have and heres the results


i restart the computer and put the osx10 tiger dvd in and hold the C button it reads the disk and it doesnt boot after the pic of the apple is up its goes to blue screen and sits there.i tried it in a G4 and it boots there.When your in mac OS panther on this ibook and click the cd to install it says must need admin pass to do it

when trying to install osx on the laptop after u restart it goes to the preparing to install u see a status bar going . and then it says u need to restart u restart with the cd in all it does is go in to a grey screen and sits there

[seanc]

I'm confused. Was it bought in working condition from the auction?

When it says you need to restart, what does it look like? Is it in different languages on a grey background where you can't do anything else?

[nfaulkner0]

do you got a Instant Messenger ?

[nfaulkner0]

is there anyway to format without the disk ?

[seanc]

1. Yes. 2. No you need to boot off the cd

[nfaulkner0]

thats the problem it wont boot from the cd all the way it goes to preparing Installation and then just stops and says to restart and when restart it does nothing

[seanc]

I need a description of the screen, does it tell you to restart in different languages? Also, does it say iBook inside on the screen bezel or iBook G4 etc?

[nfaulkner0]

it freezes and it looks like a bar with lines u know when its preparing installation then showes diffrent langueges telling you to restart

[nfaulkner0]

it likes to freeze in Preparing Installation

[nfaulkner0]

after it freezes not its saying "you need to restart your computer.Hold down the power button for serveral seconds or press the restart button. " In several differnt langauges

[seanc]

Right, that screen with different languages is a Kernel Panic which is like a Blue Screen Of Death on Windows. Is there any extra RAM in the iBook?

Turn the iBook off, take out the battery and disconnect the power.
Lift up the keyboard (you may need to undo the numlock screw).
Touch the metal case to ground yourself (remove static electricity), avoid moving around or remember to keep grounding yourself if you do.
Remove the airport antenna cable from the airport card and remove the airport card, use the tab to pull it out (if there is an airport card).
Get a small philips screwdriver, take out the four screws and lift the metal plate/tray out.

If there is a stick of RAM installed, remove it and try installing again, if it works, you will need to replace that stick of RAM with a new stick as it is probably faulty, otherwise the iBook will be slow.
If there is no stick of RAM, put it back together in the reverse order.

Thats the only idea I have unless the logic board is faulty in which case I hope the iBook was cheap.

[nfaulkner0]

Im me on AIM if you have it its "nikescomputers"

[tr]

you mentioned that you had a G4, and you tried the OS X disc, and it worked in there. if you want to format the iBook, you could also start up the iBook in Firewire target disc mode (hold down T as you start up), connect the iBook to the G4, pop the OS X disc into the G4, and reformat/install OS X on the iBook HD.

[nfaulkner0]

thanks to sean the problem is sloved good work!

[seanc]

Why the Tiger couldn't pop up a nice dialog telling you 128mb RAM wasn't enough instead of giving you a kernel panic is beyond me but oh well. Glad it works.