My Powerbook 400MHz Bronze Keybd won't boot

Hello all,

I have a Powerbook 400Mhz/1MB cache/64MB/10GB HD /8MB Video/DVD

When I turn the unit on it just has a grey screen that is about an inch to the left. If use some of the key bd restes it goes to an os prompt and I can try commands like: mac-boot or reset-nvram or reset-all but nothing wiill make it boot. I also tried holding down they key sequence go get to the boot device chooser and it get me ther but won't show the HD or CD/DVD drives.

Thank for your help!

hmm, sounds like its booting into open firmware mode or verbose , is there a lot of text? have you trying booting into single user mode? command + S will start in single user mode. also, have you recently installed any apps or fonts right before or around the time this problem came up?

Yes, I think it is in Verbose mode

Macman said:

hmm, sounds like its booting into open firmware mode or verbose , is there a lot of text? have you trying booting into single user mode? command + S will start in single user mode. also, have you recently installed any apps or fonts right before or around the time this problem came up?

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I just tried the apple key & S key combination... It didn't work Thanks for the sugguestion tho. I am having the same issues with an ibook clamshell firewire too. I used Macs years ago but have since turned to the dark side (windows machines)... I guess this is what I get for turning my back on the Mac (haha)

I appreciate any help you can give me.

I don't Know...

Macman said:

hmm, sounds like its booting into open firmware mode or verbose , is there a lot of text? have you trying booting into single user mode? command + S will start in single user mode. also, have you recently installed any apps or fonts right before or around the time this problem came up?

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I do not know if any fonts or programs were installed be fore it crashed... A friend just gave me these two units. Do you know of any command I can type wile in verbose mode that will allow me to mount the HD or CD-rom drives. Also I do not know how to check the OS version. Do you know of a command that will give me some machine specific info or how I can list the co neye: mmands available to me in verbose mode?