[iBook] Troubled iBook

[Larry Kollar]

Fred Stevens K2FRD wrote:

> Similar problems with my G3 900 iBook: wouldn't wake up, would turn  
> itself off, would take several tries to boot it up so that it would  
> go past the spinning gear stage, would freeze so I'd have to do a  
> hard quit with the power button. The hardware test CD that came  
> with my computer found no problems. Finally one day, it would boot  
> up only to the start of the blue screen, then shut itself off.  
> DiskWarrior wouldn't work; the only thing that worked was the  
> hardware test CD which found no problems.

That in itself should indicate an OS problem (or at worst, a hard  
drive going wonky). I wonder if single-user mode would have worked --  
you can at least run fsck (aka Disk First Aid) from there.

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