Help.
I've got a G4 iBook running 10.4.8.
I've had no problems whatsoever with it until very recently.
About a week ago I started to think I might need a new battery as the charge wasn't lasting very long.
Then suddenly a couple of days ago, after about an hour of use everything froze.
I mean everything.
No shortcut keys worked, mouse didn't move, couldn't force a shut down.
Eventually I had to resort to removing the battery.
I was only running Firefox at the time.
Nothing too strenuous.
I put the battery back in, turned on, got as far as the grey screen with the water wheel and it froze again.
I left it overnight (to avoid losing my rag and smashing something), tried it the following afternoon and got as far as the "select user" screen before it froze again.
Thinking that maybe the battery might be dragging it down I tried running it direct from the mains but that had no effect, positive or negative.
I left it for a full 24hrs and managed to get it started up, logged in and into a finder window with the intent of saving some files to my external drive, but before I could even select a folder it froze again.
I can't imagine it's a hard drive problem otherwise it wouldn't get in as far as my account.
I can't imagine it's a motherboard problem otherwise it wouldn't boot at all.
And I can't imagine it's a battery problem otherwise running it from the mains would improve the situation.
I haven't installed any new apps or significant updates recently so it can't be anything software related.
And I get the same results booting from the OS DVD so I can't imagine it's a corrupted boot file or anything of the sort.
Anyone seen anything like this before and have a possible solution?
It's driving me nuts.
Thanks in advance.
I've got a G4 iBook running 10.4.8.
I've had no problems whatsoever with it until very recently.
About a week ago I started to think I might need a new battery as the charge wasn't lasting very long.
Then suddenly a couple of days ago, after about an hour of use everything froze.
I mean everything.
No shortcut keys worked, mouse didn't move, couldn't force a shut down.
Eventually I had to resort to removing the battery.
I was only running Firefox at the time.
Nothing too strenuous.
I put the battery back in, turned on, got as far as the grey screen with the water wheel and it froze again.
I left it overnight (to avoid losing my rag and smashing something), tried it the following afternoon and got as far as the "select user" screen before it froze again.
Thinking that maybe the battery might be dragging it down I tried running it direct from the mains but that had no effect, positive or negative.
I left it for a full 24hrs and managed to get it started up, logged in and into a finder window with the intent of saving some files to my external drive, but before I could even select a folder it froze again.
I can't imagine it's a hard drive problem otherwise it wouldn't get in as far as my account.
I can't imagine it's a motherboard problem otherwise it wouldn't boot at all.
And I can't imagine it's a battery problem otherwise running it from the mains would improve the situation.
I haven't installed any new apps or significant updates recently so it can't be anything software related.
And I get the same results booting from the OS DVD so I can't imagine it's a corrupted boot file or anything of the sort.
Anyone seen anything like this before and have a possible solution?
It's driving me nuts.
Thanks in advance.