From: "Tim" <tjp314@pacbell.net>

Date: May 17, 2008 3:13:59 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Sorta OT:  Powerbook G4 won't startup

Hm... that may have been the disk that came with my wife's older g4,

as it had 10.1.2 on it.

I'll keep looking for the other one--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com,

Milton Aupperle <milton@...> wrote:

Hi Tim;

On 17-May-08, at 2:58 PM, Tim wrote:

Okay guys, this is interesting...

I took out the hard drive, put a battery back in and connected the

power adapter.  Now, when I turn the computer on, it immediately goes

to the "folder with a question mark" icon and spins up the startup

disk.  But it keeps spinning up the disk and spinning it down again.

What is the CD/ DVD Startup disk are you using (OSX 10.3, 10.4  

10.5 ??)  Is it the correct one for this Mac model or something else?

It never boots off it.

How long did you wait? It takes quite a while to boot off of a DVD on  

my G4 Mac.

HTH..

Milton J. Aupperle