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ibook g3 help
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my ibook g3 wont boot into os x anymore. i turn it on and i hear a croaking like song and it goes on and on until i get a screen with the folder with a question mark. i try booting os x cd to try and reformat but it wont accept it or my panther disc.
anyone know what might be wrong.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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yea tried resetting the pram.
no workie.
yea a croaking type grinding noise?
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Posting Junkie
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A bad hard drive perhaps?
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Originally Posted by imitchellg5
A bad hard drive perhaps?
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I have never heard of a sound like that in a iBook, but it is fairly common in older iMacs. Fortunetly, you can get a new HD for about $49 from www.macsales.com.
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Ok, calm down...
I need to know a couple of things...
Do you have a copy of Tech Tool Pro?
Do you have another Mac that you can use?
Do you have a fire wire cable with you?
I'll be waiting 
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Originally Posted by F_Elz
my ibook g3 wont boot into os x anymore. i turn it on and i hear a croaking like song and it goes on and on until i get a screen with the folder with a question mark. i try booting os x cd to try and reformat but it wont accept it or my panther disc.
anyone know what might be wrong.
Follow the instructions here describing how to fix the issue:
http://www.bombich.com/mactips/openfirmware.html
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Originally Posted by I WAS the One
Ok, calm down...
I need to know a couple of things...
Do you have a copy of Tech Tool Pro?
Do you have another Mac that you can use?
Do you have a fire wire cable with you?
I'll be waiting
-no
-yes
- nope
i did install a new hd, but my ibook doesn't want to read any cds to install osx 
did i make it worse 
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Originally Posted by F_Elz
-no
-yes
- nope
i did install a new hd, but my ibook doesn't want to read any cds to install osx
did i make it worse
how do you know that your iBook is reading the HD?
did you put the "jumpers" in Master mode?
Am I speaking chinese here?
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