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Apple Computing Products:
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Powerbook G4 - Cannot Boot, You Must Shutdown Your Computer Error
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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1528517" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>Nope...no idea.</p><p></p><p>All I can say is...various hardware checking programs (Tech Tool 4, Disk Utility, Apple Hardware Test, etc.)...can & do report no errors/problems...even though they still can exist. Just mentioning that...before there is a 100% assumption that there are no hardware problems.</p><p></p><p>But assuming that there are no hardware problems...I sure hope no one messed around with something in the firmware or used "Terminal" to change settings. Because these are problems that are harder to figure out.</p><p></p><p>To be honest I'm still leaning towards a hardware problem (due to the kernel panic listed in post #1). This is assuming that the OS install was a good one (proper disk/disks used).</p><p></p><p>- Nick</p><p></p><p>p.s. One thing else I can say. If the computer operates ok when booting from the OS install disk...maybe there's something wrong with the HD. You could try installing the OS on an external HD...and booting from it...and see if the computer boots ok. This will help determine if the internal HD has a problem (very likely on an older computer such as this).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1528517, member: 56379"] Nope...no idea. All I can say is...various hardware checking programs (Tech Tool 4, Disk Utility, Apple Hardware Test, etc.)...can & do report no errors/problems...even though they still can exist. Just mentioning that...before there is a 100% assumption that there are no hardware problems. But assuming that there are no hardware problems...I sure hope no one messed around with something in the firmware or used "Terminal" to change settings. Because these are problems that are harder to figure out. To be honest I'm still leaning towards a hardware problem (due to the kernel panic listed in post #1). This is assuming that the OS install was a good one (proper disk/disks used). - Nick p.s. One thing else I can say. If the computer operates ok when booting from the OS install disk...maybe there's something wrong with the HD. You could try installing the OS on an external HD...and booting from it...and see if the computer boots ok. This will help determine if the internal HD has a problem (very likely on an older computer such as this). [/QUOTE]
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