My Dead iBook :(
Here we go.....
After downloading a security update my ibook was restarting and it dropped off the table, lid closed, ever since it will not boot, even after wiping the drive, re-installing X, even trying to install X.0.0 wont work, but for some reason OS 9 will work fine!!!! i just dont get it, it isntalls fine but when it comes to restarting then nothing, it just hangs with a blue screen, does anyone have any suggestions? i havent mad much luck at macosx.com :-( please help me. i have run the apple hardware test CD and everything appears to be fine, all the disk utilities ran and found nothing wrong ???? somebody please help!
After downloading a security update my ibook was restarting and it dropped off the table, lid closed, ever since it will not boot, even after wiping the drive, re-installing X, even trying to install X.0.0 wont work, but for some reason OS 9 will work fine!!!! i just dont get it, it isntalls fine but when it comes to restarting then nothing, it just hangs with a blue screen, does anyone have any suggestions? i havent mad much luck at macosx.com :-( please help me. i have run the apple hardware test CD and everything appears to be fine, all the disk utilities ran and found nothing wrong ???? somebody please help!
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and btw, what version of OS X are you trying to install ? X.0.0 sure isn't a viable version number. either Mac OS X 10.2.3 or 10.2.3 but not X.2.1 ! (had to say that once)
if you do, i'd do the following. back up your data.
boot off the OSX install cd, and to a CLEAN install. not an archive, but clean.
it should work then.
if not, boot off the OS9 cd and reformat the drive. then try the above.
-alcimedes