G4 PBK gray screen at startup, nothing else
For the past few days myPB on OSX10.4.11 has been starting up with difficulty, at times taking an hour before anything happens, but often giving me the alternating Finder face/question mark in a folder. I was able to get a last gasp of activity and updated my Seagate portable drive using Carbon Cloner. I have scoured this site for possible solutions but nothing seems to work. Unfortunately, this is a second owner PB and I do not have the startup disk or a repair disk. I tried holding the c anod pushing the start button: I got a whirring hard disk slung, then a 4 second tone, then the musical chord, then gray screen. I cannot get to any other functions now. I did see something about connecting to another computer....I do have an iMac also on 10.4.11' so can I connect the PB to the iMac with an Ethernet cable to run tests?
PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)