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hello, i'm having an issue when i try to start up my powermac g4 and i cant figure out the problem, so i thought i'd ask you guys if you had any ideas what the problem could be.
firstly, here is the details of the computer: powermac g4 sawtooth with 500mhz processor, 896 meg ram, 80 gb seagate barracuda ide hd, rage fury pro 128 graphics card os 10.1.5.
and here is the problem: the computer was working fine until one day it decided to start up to a grey screen with a spinning disc, so i tryed starting up in single user mode and trying fsck but although it could load into single user mode it wouldnt let me type anything in, i tryed various other things but nothing worked so i just re-installed the os. the computer worked fine for about a day until it started to the same grey screen with the spinning disk. so i tryed diskwarrior and it said the hd was fine, i ran diskwarrior anyway and now the computer just loads up to a blank grey screen with no spinning disk. so i reinstalled the OS and the computer worked fine so i ran diskwarrior stait away before it could start playing up and the computer then started up to the pain blank grey screen again.
so heres a re-cap: if i just use the computer normaly it will start up to a grey screen with a spinning disk after about a days use. if i run disk warrior the computer will start up to a plain grey screen. i tryed running disc utility by inserting the OS install cd and it says that the hd isnt mounted, (although diskwarrior says it is). i've tryed puttin a different hard drive in and the same thing happens, i've tryed puttin different ram in, i've tryed starting with the mouse & key board unplugged, i've tryed swapping the cable select/master/slave setting around, i've tryed connecting the harddrive to the secondary ide port (the one that the cd drive is connected to), i've tryed resetting the PRAM and still i get the same problems. i've even tryed using different versions of diskwarrior v3.0.2. & v4).
i cant think what else to do! does anyone have any ideas, or do you recon my logic board is broken.
anyway, sorry for the long post but any help would be appreciated
firstly, here is the details of the computer: powermac g4 sawtooth with 500mhz processor, 896 meg ram, 80 gb seagate barracuda ide hd, rage fury pro 128 graphics card os 10.1.5.
and here is the problem: the computer was working fine until one day it decided to start up to a grey screen with a spinning disc, so i tryed starting up in single user mode and trying fsck but although it could load into single user mode it wouldnt let me type anything in, i tryed various other things but nothing worked so i just re-installed the os. the computer worked fine for about a day until it started to the same grey screen with the spinning disk. so i tryed diskwarrior and it said the hd was fine, i ran diskwarrior anyway and now the computer just loads up to a blank grey screen with no spinning disk. so i reinstalled the OS and the computer worked fine so i ran diskwarrior stait away before it could start playing up and the computer then started up to the pain blank grey screen again.
so heres a re-cap: if i just use the computer normaly it will start up to a grey screen with a spinning disk after about a days use. if i run disk warrior the computer will start up to a plain grey screen. i tryed running disc utility by inserting the OS install cd and it says that the hd isnt mounted, (although diskwarrior says it is). i've tryed puttin a different hard drive in and the same thing happens, i've tryed puttin different ram in, i've tryed starting with the mouse & key board unplugged, i've tryed swapping the cable select/master/slave setting around, i've tryed connecting the harddrive to the secondary ide port (the one that the cd drive is connected to), i've tryed resetting the PRAM and still i get the same problems. i've even tryed using different versions of diskwarrior v3.0.2. & v4).
i cant think what else to do! does anyone have any ideas, or do you recon my logic board is broken.
anyway, sorry for the long post but any help would be appreciated