When I start up my G4 I doesn't get past the white logo screen with the circular icon spinning. Have removed battery and depressed start up button until a loud beep occurs but still nothing

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The Powerbook G4 power button functions like a reset button if you hold the power button in for a few seconds until the computer powers down.

1. Hold the power button in for a few seconds (until you see the screen turn off/go black and hear the fans & hard drive stop spinning).
2. Press the power button again to turn your computer on.
3. If you have more trouble, you may need to boot in Safe Mode or "perform a Safe Boot":
   Press and hold down the "Shift" key immediately after you hear the start-up tone. Release the "Shift" key when the gray Apple icon appears on the screen.

Your hard drive is 10 years old. It needs to be replaced.

Replace the hard drive. You have a bad hard drive.The battery problem could be because it is failing.

Typically this white screen is due to a file system check running. If you boot in to single user mode (boot holding down the S key) you can run a manual file system check by typing in "fsck -f -y" (no quotes). This will run file system check -fix -yes to all

Unfortunately this could be a sign of the hard drive having failed. To test this I would like you to try a few steps for me.
1. Remove all devices and power off the computer. (Sometimes you have to hold the power button for 15 seconds)
2. Locate the following keys as you will need to hold them down will your computer starts; p, r, Command, and option.
3. Power on the computer.
4. Immediately press and hold the following keys; p, r, Command, and option.
5. The computer will cycle, after you hear the chime finish the 2nd time you can release the keys.
6. Test computer.
If that doesn't work...
1. Insert the system disk that you received with your Mac into the drive with the computer on.
2. Remove all devices and power off the computer. (Sometimes you have to hold the power button for 15 seconds)
3. Hold down the letter c press and release the power button.
4. When you see the Apple on the grey screen you can release the letter c.
5. Select your language.
6. At the top of the Screen select Utilities then Disk Utility.
7. In Disk Utility check the left side to side if you hard drive is listed.
8. If it is not listed you will need to replace your hard drive. If it is listed you have a separate problem.

I am going to have you take your Mac into Safe Mode to see if we can't remove a possible folder(s) that may be affecting your Mac's start up function.

Try these steps:


-SAFE BOOT MODE-
• Reboot your Mac
• Upon restarting your Mac, press the Shift key.
• Hold the Shift key until you see a White Screen with Gray Apple icon and eventually a spinning gear.
• When you see the Spinning gear, release the Shift key.
• Allow the Powerbook G4 to continue booting up. Also this may take a little while
(NOTE: this may take anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes to load to the Safe mode screen depending on the performance of your Mac, but if it exceeds this time, shutdown your Powerbook G4 and try just once more. It may have just frozen up the first time around for you.)

• You are going to enter the Safe Mode (which looks like your main desktop environment - the only difference is certain start up items are disabled.)

• Once within the Desktop in Safe Mode
• From the Finder Menu, click Go> Go to Folder
• Type in this line: /System/Library/StartupItems
• This path, is going to take you to the System Library folder which has all of your Mac OS X Startupitems.
• Remove all of those folders to the Trash.

*Reboot your Mac normally and see if you can access your normal User desktop environment.

At times this procedure does help for gray screen issues so give this a try and let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

-Mactechtrainer

i have the same problemmm=[

If you have the original install CD or the OSX CD, boot to CD. To do that you must insert CD, restart PowerBook and hold letter "C" on keyboard while computer is starting, then take the first steps towards installing the OS, when you get to the bar on the top go to Tool>Utilities>Disk Utilities then select the drive a do a disk repair. That may fix the problem and bring your system back to booting normally.

Which screen is it stuck at? The spinning "gear"? The Blue progress bar scree? or the login screen? Answer this and i have your answer.