iBook G4 displays blue screen and cursor, then waiting icon, then repeata.

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iBook G4 displays blue screen and cursor, then waiting icon, then repeata.

My iBook recently started booting into Darwin mode, so I reset it like I was told to and now it briefly displays the log in screen then moves to a blue screen with a cursor that I can move, which then moves on to a screen with a waiting logo and repeats this until I shut it down. Could anyone recommend a way to stop this from happening as I really need my iBook for course work and such a like. Any help would be appreciated.

I don't have the original install disks either.

iBook, Mac OS X (10.0.x)

Posted on Jun 12, 2013 11:54 AM

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bund

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Jun 13, 2013 6:09 AM in response to gauky

You can try to boot in Safe mode or run the fsck command-line utiliy

Read Apple support article

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Jun 13, 2013 8:23 AM in response to bund

Unfortunateley I have tried all of this but this doesn't have any effect on the iBook, I have also tried resetting the NRAM as many users have suggest, reinstalling the RAM and Airport card to no prevail. Thank you for your time and suggestion anyway 🙂

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bund

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Jun 13, 2013 2:54 PM in response to gauky

You can try to run Apple Hardware Test, which is still available for serveral iBook models for a quick diagnosis to see if the problem is hardware related.

Which iBook do you own and which MacOS Version is installed?

There were a couple of Third-party Utilities like Alsoft Disk Warrior and Micromat Tech Tool to fix disk-related problems. Older versions for outdated MacOs Versions are not so expensive on ebay.

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Jun 13, 2013 11:56 PM in response to bund

I've just ordered a hardware test off of eBay (it includes an OS installation disk which I don't have), it is an iBook G4 running Tiger 10.4.6 I believe as it wouldn't allow imstallation of 10.4.11.

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