Q: screen shows bright little squares pattern and folder with ? sign
My lack of experiences with Apple products soon will be apparent! Try to keep this in mind if you decide to reply...
The laptop is a MacBook Pro, and apart from this I've almost no other info on the machine because of lack of labels or manuals: this is not my machine, it's a friends laptop. The only info I've is what appears under the screen when you open the lid, at no other corner or space around the artifact is anything of value.
Since I've been trying to tinker a little with an old iBook G4 recently I've learned that there are other ways of "Powering up" that laptop and I'm curious if the same thing can be done with this machine. I'm talking about pressing the Power button while one presses down something else, making it possible to do some adjustments. First of all, I would like to learn how to do that with this machine.
Second, have no idea what the OS of this machine chipped with nor what it has right now: would like to know if there's a way of learning what those are.
Is the screen thing common? Easily fixed? To this end, I've never used an Apple product with a secondary screen; I guess that one of those ports at the side is for an auxiliary screen: what kind of an auxiliary screen could be connected there? Just an Apple product? the connector for the cable suggests that...Am I right on this?
Something else, does this product came with an OS's CD? A recovery CD?
Any info on the above issues are going to be valuable for me and my friend! After all, she has a lot of pictures there of her first grandchild - most of you will understand the value given to those...
PS. I still have that iBook, but no cable for any possible connection between the machines but I'm curious if that's a possible solution to access the HDD. Could it be done without opening any of the said machines, under the current circumstances?
iBook G4, Mac OS X (10.5.8), Only 384MB of RAM in total
Posted on May 13, 2016 9:21 AM

