HELP!!!! SERIOUS PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!!

ghost_user_nameghost_user_name
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
I have a pimso 500mhz 384 ram. Tonight, I was using Appleworks and it quit......but instead of blue "ok" button for the "unexpected quit" message, nothing but a plain blinking blue button showed up in the box.



I could not force quit. I rebooted and the trackpad didn't work. I reset the pram...nothing. I tried to reinststall the OS...it doesn't seem to find the HD (only the CD was detected...no green arrow appeared over a HD icon) I ran Drive 10....everything but volume structures was OK...(that was always a problem, but never seemed to affect anything).



I considered using the software restore...but realized it would erase everytthing. I just backed up all my documents....mostly on another machine on Thursday.



What am I leaving out here? HELLLPPPP!!!!



I'm going to try logging from this iBook I am on to back up files...wish me luck and please help!!!!!

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 18
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    ahem... <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />



    Wrong forums, buddy.



    <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=7"; target="_blank">Genius Bar</a>. please.
  • Reply 2 of 18
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Well, have you tried fscking the drive?
  • Reply 3 of 18
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Wrong forum or not, I need help NOW. fsucking the drive....WTF is that supposed to mean?
  • Reply 4 of 18
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by starfleetX:

    <strong>ahem... <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />



    Wrong forums, buddy.



    <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=7"; target="_blank">Genius Bar</a>. please.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    He'll get a quicker response here rather than Genius Bar.
  • Reply 5 of 18
    nebagakidnebagakid Posts: 2,692member
    maybe try Disk Warrior
  • Reply 6 of 18
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    I have bigger problems now. Now, the screen won't come on. Since the least post it starting dimming. Then got really dark. Now it won't come on at all......wait....now it is coming on.....but more dimly.....WTF is happening here!!!!!!!!!!
  • Reply 7 of 18
    logan calelogan cale Posts: 1,281member
    Sounds like your computer is dying.



    I had some similar problems (not the screen stuff) with my Pismo, but it seems to have been a hard drive failure, as replacing the drive solved it...



    But to get back to you, try every disk utility you can get your hands on, and also unplug it, take the batteries out, reset the power manager (push the button for 30 seconds, I think), leave it unplugged and unbatteried for a while (hey, leaving it alone works for me sometimes...), try again, I dunno, do everything you can think of.



    My iBook is having lots of problems too lately, so I know how you feel...
  • Reply 8 of 18
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by MacAgent:

    <strong>Sounds like your computer is dying.



    I had some similar problems (not the screen stuff) with my Pismo, but it seems to have been a hard drive failure, as replacing the drive solved it...



    But to get back to you, try every disk utility you can get your hands on, and also unplug it, take the batteries out, reset the power manager (push the button for 30 seconds, I think), leave it unplugged and unbatteried for a while (hey, leaving it alone works for me sometimes...), try again, I dunno, do everything you can think of.



    My iBook is having lots of problems too lately, so I know how you feel... </strong><hr></blockquote>



    It will now not boot from the HD at all.....only sa cd....and it does it automatically.....I think you are right...HD failure.



    Apple is going to have an interesting surprise tomorrow morning....can you say "I paid for Apple care"? No? Cause I can....I still have over a year left....





    ."Good Morning, you owe me a new PB....thanks"..



    Well, maybe a HD replacement anyway. Good thing I backed most stuff up....except my last notes from my grad class the other night....great....
  • Reply 9 of 18
    applenegroapplenegro Posts: 9member
    [quote]Originally posted by SDW2001(alternate):

    <strong>Wrong forum or not, I need help NOW. fsucking the drive....WTF is that supposed to mean?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    it means you gotta make sweet love to that drive...maybe take it out for dinner, a movie, etc. then make yo moves bro.
  • Reply 10 of 18
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by applenegro:

    <strong>



    it means you gotta make sweet love to that drive...maybe take it out for dinner, a movie, etc. then make yo moves bro.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Yeah, that's a great idea <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
  • Reply 11 of 18
    falconfalcon Posts: 458member
    Beat it with a stick.



    Well thats what I do with my PC



    *WACK!* Crash while playing D2 will you!? *WACK!*
  • Reply 12 of 18
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Well, dammit. I tried again this morning. It does boot from the HD, but only if the CD/DV drive module is out of the bay. When it does boot, it is not normal. The screen takes a while to light....when it does it is at about 50% brightness. Then, the trackpad doesn't work. I can still navigate with the keys....



    Question: Once I open system preferences, how do I select an item (like file sharing) without the trackpad? I can open the SP program, but not anything in it because I can't seem to select the various things in System preferences. What I am trying to do is turn on File Sharing so that I can access the HD with my wife's iBook via ariport. Right now I am pretty sure it is off as the iBook will not detect it on the network.



    What do you think? If I can pull this off, I can still back up a few files that I didn't before it crashed.....thanks.
  • Reply 13 of 18
    fran441fran441 Posts: 3,715member
    I had this problem back in October of 2000. My machine was screwed (or so I thought). This began my 5 month tie up with Apple tech support. I owned AppleCare too, at the time, and the thing was still under it's one year warranty.



    I didn't have my PowerBook repaired and back to me until February. It was a nightmare. They also said that my screen was destroyed (it wasn't), and that I would have to pay them over $1000 to get it fixed.



    Luckily, through contacts, I was able to talk to the VP of AppleCare and my PowerBook was repaired and sent back to me at no extra charge. All of my files, etc. were still in tact, but at this point, I had already been promised a TiBook as a replacement, and I never got that.



    Hopefully, there is an easy fix for you, but it sounds like your machine is really in trouble. Maybe Apple will have a quick solution for you, but my problems happened over the course of a week, not within a few minutes.
  • Reply 14 of 18
    fran441fran441 Posts: 3,715member
    Do you have a USB mouse to be able to navigate around the machine? Maybe if you used Firewire disk mode with the iBook, you could back up your files that way and try and restore the machine.
  • Reply 15 of 18
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Well, we determined that it was a software isuue



    "Master Block" problem "Invalid Key Lenght" problem.



    It was determined (by Apple Tech Support), after two and a half hours, that we needed to wipe the HD. Fortunately, I had backed up *almost* all my documents (including financial info) on Thursday!!!!!



    There was no way to get to the files. We tried everything to get a few "unbacked-up" files to my wife's ibook....NO DICE.



    It is completing a repartition and reinstall of everything now after a total erase. It is rebooting now......crossing my fingers!
  • Reply 16 of 18
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    So far, so good.
  • Reply 17 of 18
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    Good to hear that you got it working right.
  • Reply 18 of 18
    sdw2001sdw2001 Posts: 18,040member
    OK. Fixed. But I did lose a few files that weren't backed up.....not a big deal I guess.



    What an ****ed up problem though.....



    Fran, I remember that thing with your PB....I'm glad it worked out.
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