![]() Someplace in my apt I have a portable USB CD/DVD drive. What the heck am I doing wrong? Any other magic key combos I should try? It should boot to a Leopard 10.5 DVD right? I just put the DVD in the drive, hold down the C key, and then turn the computer on, right? But mailing stuff to my country is almost impossible.Īny suggestions on what my next step could be? If I lived someplace other then Ecuador, I would buy a replacement DVD drive from ebay and swap it out. ![]() It looked like it just came from the factory. I don't think anyone else has been inside. When I opened the powerbook up, it looked like I was the first person inside. I don't hear anything that I would call bad noise from the DVD drive when I put a DVD in it. When I put a DVD in the drive, I can hear the drive spin up and run. I can open this puppy back up and and take a closer look at the DVD drive. I have tried both ways, and I still boot the question mark screen. I believe this powerbook will not take a classic OS, but needs a version of OSX.ĭo I need to do any magic when I hold down the C key when I boot? Do I hold down the C key and then boot the computer and keep the key depressed? Or do I press and release, press and release, etc. I plugged in a portable USB drive, but the drive light on the USB drive never did come on with or with out a floppy. I tried a DVD of the classic OS 9.2 and same thing. I tried again with a apple branded Leopard 10.5 DVD. Again, I had to screw with the powerbook to get the disk to eject, but it finally came out. I tried this several times, all with the same results. It booted to the same question mark screen. I stuck in a Apple DVD of 10.2.3 and healed down the "C" key. It booted to the same screen with the question mark and file folder. I put the computer back together, and tied to boot it. It was a 80GB Toshiba 5400 RPM apple branded drive (MK8026GAX). It is a 120 GB 2.5 inch IDE/ATA solid state drive. ![]() The fans were quiet.Īs luck would have it, I had a OWC (Other World Computing) SSD model MLP 120 It is called a Mercury Legacy Pro. Once I had the powerbook open I booted it and found out the grinding noise was coming from the hard drive. I decided to open up the powerbook and see what was making all the noise. After days of playing with it, it finally came out. I stuck in a apple 10.2.3 DVD and healed down the "C" key. It would only boot to a screen with a flashing question mark and a file folder. When I tried to boot it, I heard what sounded like a bad fan or a bad hard drive spin up. I don't know if I have the 1.3Gh model or the 1.5Gh model. I need some help booting my Mac Powerbook G4 (A1095) laptop. ![]()
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