Powerbook won't boot
Hi,
Yesterday I went to get on my new 15 PB. However, when I turned on the power it wouldn't boot up. It just went to the grey screen with the flashing folder. No problem, I thought, I'll just put the installation disk in and boot from there and see what is going on. It is really wierd, but the install disk is not recognizing that I have a hard drive. The only drive disk utilities recognizes is my superdrive and the only volume it recognizes is the install disk.
Does anyone having any ideas on what I can do before sending it to Apple? The really strange thing is the fact that once in awhile it will boot up just fine, so hopefully it is just a loose wire or something.
Thanks,
Josh
Yesterday I went to get on my new 15 PB. However, when I turned on the power it wouldn't boot up. It just went to the grey screen with the flashing folder. No problem, I thought, I'll just put the installation disk in and boot from there and see what is going on. It is really wierd, but the install disk is not recognizing that I have a hard drive. The only drive disk utilities recognizes is my superdrive and the only volume it recognizes is the install disk.
Does anyone having any ideas on what I can do before sending it to Apple? The really strange thing is the fact that once in awhile it will boot up just fine, so hopefully it is just a loose wire or something.
Thanks,
Josh
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I just powered off my brand new Aluminum and it won't boot back up. It keeps getting trapped at the grey screen area w/ the flashing question mark (ontop of a folder image) and finder icon also on top of the folder image. So it just alternates between question mark and finder... i don't have my startup CD eitehr with me as i'm on vacation. God damn't.
Holding down SHIFT, or C, or CMD-C doesn't seem to help either =( man.
Apple said to bring it into an Apple service place... ah damn =( Powerbooks only like a week and a half old...