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iBook G4 shows strange icon; won't boot up
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Northern California--SF Bay Area
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My friend Alexander (see the Life, Sockpuppets, and Everything Else thread in the lounge) has an iBook G4. Last night, it suddenly crashed. When he tried to reboot, his computer made the BONG sound. Then it showed an icon that looks like a hard drive and has a flashing question mark on it. What's going on here?
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Chris K.
White MacBook and iPod Nano 3rd Generation
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Hard drive failure. (more than likely.)
Hold down option when booting and see if it lets you choose the hard drive.
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Moderator  Join Date: Apr 2000
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Boot from a hardware test disc, if you have one, and run the full test. Most likely the HD is dead or dying.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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At the very least, the "?" icon says that the computer can't "find" the boot drive. As P recommends, the hardware test disc will tell you whether there's a problem with the hard drive. If the drive is OK, there's probably just something goofy with the boot setup.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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