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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    matt3
    Posts: 704 from 2004/2/10
    My Powerbook G4 boots past the question mark and finds the OS and immediately freezes on a gray screen with the front LED going solid on.

    I tried booting from the MOS CD and it has the same issue.

    Tried resetting the power management and NVRam. No change.

    Any ideas?
  • »04.03.16 - 13:58
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    DanicaTalos
    Posts: 443 from 2010/10/15
    From: 01101110011100...
    Try a Linux Live-CD...
    iBook G4 - 14" -1,42 GHz - 32MB VRAM - 1,5GB RAM - 60GB mSata - MorphOS 3.18
  • »04.03.16 - 16:59
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Cego
    Posts: 733 from 2006/5/28
    From: Germany
    which PowerBook model do you have? Could you name some specific info?
    Pegasos II G4 @1.0GHz, 1GB DDR Ram, Radeon 9200Pro, 240GB SSD+160GB HD, MorphOS 3.18, AmigaOS4.1 FE, Debian 8
  • »04.03.16 - 19:23
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    matt3
    Posts: 704 from 2004/2/10
    Quote:

    Cego wrote:
    which PowerBook model do you have? Could you name some specific info?


    Sure it's an A1139 - 17in 1.67 high res. The last of the Powerbook line.
  • »04.03.16 - 19:35
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    Yasu
    Posts: 1724 from 2012/3/22
    From: Stockholm, Sweden
    This is the same model I have and it works fine so we can rule out that this is a MorphOS inherited problem at least. It sounds like a hardware problem. The hard disk is my guess.
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  • »05.03.16 - 10:10
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    matt3
    Posts: 704 from 2004/2/10
    Yes I did. It worked well but it starting acting up and now it won't even turn on.

    Sadly it's broken. I hope I can transfer the license one I pickup another Powerbook...



    Quote:

    jPV wrote:
    You have MorphOS installed on it and it has worked earlier?
  • »06.03.16 - 18:40
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    Elowan
    Posts: 214 from 2011/4/18
    From: Frankfurt (Ger...
    Hmmm, I got some "freezes wit grey screen" issue a few days ago - it was a currupted filesystem.
    Maybe try resetting NVRAM or external hdd
    12" ibook G4 1.33Ghz, 1.5GB RAM, ATI 9550 32MB, 16GB SSD, WiFi, BT, ComboDrive
  • »07.03.16 - 11:56
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    Intuition
    Posts: 1110 from 2013/5/24
    From: Nederland
    Have you got RAM sticks in both slots?

    The second RAM slot is notorious for being broken by design.

    Try with RAM in only the first slot.
    1.67GHz 15" PowerBook G4, 1GB RAM, 128MB Radeon 9700M Pro, 64GB SSD, MorphOS 3.15

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  • »07.03.16 - 12:55
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    matt3
    Posts: 704 from 2004/2/10
    Looks like the hardware is totally shot. Nothing gets power.

    It ran MOS for many years without issues and I did check the ram slots thanks!

    Does anyone know if there is a process to move the license to another computer or do I have to purchase another license?

    I just ordered another Powerbook with the same specs as the old. I hope to move the hard disk over and be up and running.
  • »09.03.16 - 11:53
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