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ibook G4 usb problem

My ibook G4 A1133 usb not getting any power. Since it not getting power it will freeze up on boot up. What will cause the usb not getting power? I went into open firmware and reset everything. Still won't boot up all the way after doing that. When you first turn it on you get the happy chime and you get the apple on screen with the dotted circle moving under the apple then the circle stops and it freezes up. Hope someone ran into this. Thanks for the help.

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Posted on Nov 9, 2024 5:06 AM

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Nov 10, 2024 7:41 PM in response to BDAqua

I did a reset all on it. I reset the pram and the nvram too. I reset it like 4 or 5 times now. Still now doing nothing. It will start to boot up the freeze up. If I try to boot from a usb stick I get a screen with a circle with a slash on it. But the usb stick boots up on my other power Mac. So I don’t know.

Nov 11, 2024 9:06 AM in response to gwb21471

I got it boot boot into mac os. It has mac os 10.4.11 on it. The usb ports don't work at all. Do they make a adaptor to plug usb stuff into firewire? The CD-Rom doesn't work. I check it and there part that are bent. So i letting it do a few updates right now. It show it has 512mb or memory in the system profiler. The usb show up in the system profiler. Thanks for the help so far.

Nov 12, 2024 10:50 AM in response to BDAqua

It wouldn’t let me upgrade to Mac OS 10.5. It told me I needed to install it from a dvd. Because it needed to format the hard drive. So I am suck with 10.4.11 for now. I was told I can plug my iBook into an other Mac with FireWire and use the other Mac as a target drive or I could install it over the network. Beats me how to do that. Well thanks for the help.

Nov 12, 2024 2:45 PM in response to gwb21471

School may have done something.


Read up on Target Disk Mode, that is where you either...


Boot this one holding T key & you see a big floasting FW symbol, then connect to another FW Mac, then this one wull look like a Gard Drive to the other one.


O, coot the other FW Mac holding T key, connect via FW, then boot this Mac holdiing Option key & see if the other Mac's HDD shows as a bot choice.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Disk_Mode

ibook G4 usb problem

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