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HELP! SPARKEDIT BROKE MY COMPUTER!!
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 7:57 pm
by potatoes compy is broke
Ok, my iBook G4 12 inch model won't start up. I was using Sparkedit (ppc) for a new sniping mod I was making, and my screen flashed random colors and shut down. As i said before, it wont boot. I cant go into single user mode, I cant boot from installation discs, it just sits there with the screen off with fan going REALLY loudly. Every 34 or so times i try to boot it up it will start up, get into Mac Os X, and "works" until the display falls asleep and it shuts down, forcing me to try another 34 times. If i open sparkedit before it shuts down, then it flashes the colors again, and restarts the cycle. I am not blaming anyone for bad programing, since i'm responsible and blah blah blah, but i would love help here!
heres some specs:
ibook g4 12" 1.2 ghz(i think) made early 2005. new battery, new ram, and new hard drive replacing originals.
please help, i am being forced to use a crappy compaq running windows M.E., which SUCKS!
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:01 pm
by potatoes compy is broke
sorry for double posting, but guests cant edit, and i forgot to mention that i had safe sleep enabled.
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:13 pm
by Kayar
Wow. That sucks. I'm sorry I can't help.
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:04 pm
by potatoes compy broke
well, if this one breaks, maybe ill get a lappy 486 for my birthday. (with half of ten minutes battery life!)
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 12:38 am
by TaxiService
have you tried to boot it holding alt while starting?
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 4:38 am
by Moxus
Or Apple + V to see what's going on when it's starting up?
-=Moxus=-
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:07 am
by TaxiService
Moxus wrote:Or Apple + V to see what's going on when it's starting up?
-=Moxus=-
oooh, yeeaaah, i forgot how to do it XP thanks moxus.
...when you do it the computer starts like windows XP lol it can be funny if there are other mac users in the room that doesnt know what's happening XD
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 8:11 am
by potatoes compy is broke
i cant even do that! it doesnt get that far! screen stays off and the fan goes really loudly eternally. i cant get far enough to go into single user or verbose mode, or safe mode.
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 8:30 am
by leftover_crack
potatoes compy broke wrote:well, if this one breaks, maybe ill get a lappy 486 for my birthday. (with half of ten minutes battery life!)
why not just say 5 minutes
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 8:47 am
by Ayumi
Boot in Target Mode (hold T while starting up) and your computer will act like an external hard drive case. It ignores keyboard input and everything except FireWire and USB.
Then you connect your computer to a computer with a reasonable amount of free space and take everything you want off of your dying/dead computer. When that's done, you give your dying/dead computer to Apple and they'll try to fix it.
...I think that's how it works...
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 10:08 am
by TaxiService
..if T works... >_> o_O
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 10:56 am
by potatoes compy is broke
ARGH ILL SAY IT AGAIN!
anything that involves "hold X and Y while starting up" DOESNT WORK! THE FIRMWARE DOESNT LOAD!
as for the lappy 486 thing, its a
http://www.homestarrunner.com joke.
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 11:05 am
by Kayar
Aye. That it is. I should know. oO
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 12:17 pm
by potatoe
sewiorsly guys, i pretty much wun the show awound hewre.
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 12:55 pm
by Kayar
No you didn't, Chuck Norris did.