MY PWRBOOK: HE DEAD?

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First, it froze. Now when I boot up, it beeps three times and does nothing. This is the WORST POSSIBLE time for this to be happening to me! Anyone who has a good tip here gets cds and shit. I almost PUKED when it happened fuck ME

― LC, Monday, 28 November 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't there a "Sex & the City" episode with this very dilemma?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Or was it "Ally McBeal"?

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

if you have another mac near, search ye firewire target disk mode.

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

http://www.macosx.com/content/faq.php/q3910/G4-Powerbook-Os-103-Wont-Startup.html

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

I just did that firewire target disk thing and it worked pretty well.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

When that happened to me, I had to replace the logic board. Try re-booting with the extensions off, by holding th eShift key down while it's starting, and then transfering your files onto another disk via firewire. If that doesn't work, see if you can take it into a shop and they'll help you turn the extensions off and transfer your files over.

― logic, Monday, 28 November 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, turn it off, plug one end of a Firewire cable into it, plug the other end into another mac, hold down "T" and turn it on... wait for the big radioactive-looking Firewire symbol to show up on yr screen and then look ont he oither mac -- it ought to be there, mounted as a drive.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

OK thanks guys, gonna call guy with a firewire try all this out right now PEACE AND ALLAH

― LC, Monday, 28 November 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Cool, good luck, LC, and I think ERick's link is your long-term answer -- yr RAM is fried

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

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