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1 GHz PowerBook G4 forever wheeling
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Hi, it's my Dad's 17" Powerbook G4, with a gig of ram, I installed leopard, like 2 weeks after leopard came out, so it's been on for a while. The white wheel spins with an occasional reboot. I would do the apple hardware test, because I've got 2 spare notebook HDs at home if i ever needed to replace a dead HD. I'm away and am using friend's laptop to type this. I do not really need the laptop, just want to use it before I die of boredom. Anything I can do before I get home? Could it be the actual leopard install is corrupt?
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[15" MacBook Pro 2.6 Ghz] [G4 733] [G4 MDD DP 1.25]
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Maybe. What apps does he have open and is using? 1 GB RAM is small if he's using a number of applications. The spinning beach ball will be common, if that's the case.
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No, it's not the beach ball, I meant on startup, I can't even get into leopard. Sorry for the misunderstanding, the wheel spins and spins, and I guess it's obvious its the OS, but I wanted to know if there was anything I could do before I got home.
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Your post is slightly confusing, did you run the Apple Hardware Test or not?
Is the HDD making any clicking noises or is it particularly noisy. It's odd for OS X to stop booting unless some corruption has occurred or an update has gone awry or the HDD is failing.
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I didn't intend for it to be confusing, that's my bad. The HD is spinning, and I hear some occasional reading, but it doesn't sound like it's enough to load leopard. It was after a software update, so I think it might be the OS. When I boot off the CD I always get a kernal panic. I am stuck here, when I try to load the hardware test and nothing happens, the same wheel spinning situation. I cannot decide if it's the HD or the partition of software. I might just throw in a 2.5" IDE drive and buy an enclosure for this one to recover the data, I don't wanna do anything that is unnecessary.
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The kernel panics could be caused by faulty RAM, have you tried taking a stick out? Otherwise it does sound like the HDD could be going south and causing issues for the optical drive on the ATA bus.
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