I have a powerbook g4, I think the hole hd is erased, when I try to start up i’ll get an Ikon that blink with a question mark and a finder, I have tryed to start with cmd/c, and cmd/m and cmd/s, but with the same result. Is thre anything I can do, the only cd I got is snowlepard, or schould I just through it in the garbitch?
Powerbook
the only cd I got is snowlepard,
Snow Leopard OS 10.6 will not run on a PowerPC processor like the ones in PowerBooks. Depending on powerbook sub-model, the highest it can run is OS10.5.8 "Leopard." If the processor is slower than 867mhz it is limited to OS 10.4 Tiger.
Try holding SHIFT at startup--that is Safe Mode.
Normally the flashing question mark means the computer cannot find a bootable system folder. In addition to an erased hard drive, other modes that indicates are a failed hard drive or a missing hard drive.
the only cd I got is snowlepard,
Snow Leopard OS 10.6 will not run on a PowerPC processor like the ones in PowerBooks. Depending on powerbook sub-model, the highest it can run is OS10.5.8 "Leopard." If the processor is slower than 867mhz it is limited to OS 10.4 Tiger.
Try holding SHIFT at startup--that is Safe Mode.
Normally the flashing question mark means the computer cannot find a bootable system folder. In addition to an erased hard drive, other modes that indicates are a failed hard drive or a missing hard drive.
If the Hard Disk Drive is in good shape, install Leopard on it, and use the PowerBook. Hopefully, there will be no more blinking question mark & Finder icon.
Snow Leopard can't run on a PowerPC CPU. Snow Leopard requires an Intel CPU.
Ikon blinks with questionmark and finder
