Ok, sorry im posting here but i dont know where to ask and i love these forums, so i really hope someone can help me.
It all started yesterday. All of a sudden my Powerbook became very slow with the spinnin beachball etc..
I switched it off (Not shut down)
This morning when i switched it on it took ages (about 2 or 3 mins) to boot up.
Once booted up it was super slow and i noticed it indexing.
Switched it off again after it had been indexing for ages. Started up and same thing.
Shut down. Started up again and same.
Now it won't even boot up. I switch it on, i get the Apple logo and the loading gear thingy then after less then a minute it just switches off.
It won't even start up, just grey screen with Apple logo, about a minute or less and it just switches off.
The spec is as follows:
Powerbook G4 15", 2GB DDR ram , 1.67Ghz CPU, 80Gig HD, Superdrive and running OS X 10.5.8 Leopard.
Hard drive is toast.. do not to anything more. You can take it to a Apple store to see if they can help. They usually can. They can hook another mac up to it and might be able to access the drive to retrieve any data.. otherwise it's new hard drive time for you.
I just went through this exact same thing and got much help/tips in the Mac forums, but that being said I should have just left well enough alone til I got to a "genius" as I think I did more damage by trying to boot numerous times..
Rich
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