TiBook Death?

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coreycorey
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I set my TiBook 1ghz to boot onto an external firewire drive and hit reset.



I now only get a blue folder with a question mark flashing in the middle.



I figured my internal drive bit the dust to tried to boot onto my Tiger DVD,

and onto my external. No luck.



Pulled all cables. Pulled the battery and then drained the unit of power. Tried again, no luck.



The DVD spins and I can eject the disk so it has power.



What I don't want to do is go buy a new hard drive that I can't return and find that some chip on the MB is fried and my drive is fine...



I find it strange that I can 't boot onto the DVD.



If my hard drive was dead, would that prevent the DVD drive from working?



Any other ideas????



Thanks in advance,



Corey

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    lundylundy Posts: 4,466member
    First, try booting while the DVD is in and holding down the Option key. This should display all of the bootable volumes. Wait for the cursor to become active and then select the DVD and click the continue arrow.



    Another thing to try is resetting the firmware. Boot holding down command-option-O-F and when the open firmware command line appears, release the keys and then type these two commands, hitting Return at the end of each:



    reset-nvram

    reset-all
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  • Reply 2 of 4
    coreycorey Posts: 165member
    I get a silver padlock on one side, a bar, and then an arrow button. None of them do anything. :-(



    The other commands you gave me I couldn't do because it kept asking for a password. I tried everything password it might be but it all came back invalid.



    Thanks for trying though...



    Corey
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  • Reply 3 of 4
    lundylundy Posts: 4,466member
    All right, someone set the firmware password. Is this really your machine, or a school machine?
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    lundylundy Posts: 4,466member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Corey View Post


    I get a silver padlock on one side, a bar, and then an arrow button. None of them do anything. :-(



    The other commands you gave me I couldn't do because it kept asking for a password. I tried everything password it might be but it all came back invalid.



    Thanks for trying though...



    Corey



    The good news is that the reason it won't boot from the DVD is that someone set the firmware password, most likely.



    Tell us more about the machine so we can know whether to assist you in resetting the password.
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