PowerBook - powerbook g4 freezes at start up

bozaza · bozaza #1 (**permalink**)

08-05-2009, 10:58 AM

last night i was on facebook and my laptop just froze so i held down the power button and when i try to turn it back on it gets stuck at the apple logo and the gear like thing at the bottom. can anyone please help?

louishen · louishen #2 (**permalink**)

08-05-2009, 03:16 PM

have you got the grey restore disks that originally came with the G4

dadsgravy · dadsgravy #3 (**permalink**)

08-06-2009, 04:33 AM

Not to instill fear, but it sounds like you hard drive failed. That's the classic sign.

A good chunk of hard drives on the first generation macbooks are/were defective. Mine did the same thing to me when it went out. Except I was on myspace. It froze, I restarted, and then apple logo and gears and nothing else. When the hard drive went out in my powerbook, same thing.

I'm certain your hard drive failed. But hey, if you have the install discs, slip them in and run the hardware test, or try an archive and install.

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Member Since: Aug 05, 2009 Posts: 1	08-05-2009, 10:58 AM last night i was on facebook and my laptop just froze so i held down the power button and when i try to turn it back on it gets stuck at the apple logo and the gear like thing at the bottom. can anyone please help?
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