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Sid_Ceaser
  
 
| | #1 posted October 25, 2007 at 6:20pm (EDT) |
I've got a 12" G4 1.33 Powerbook that I got about three months ago.
It was working fine up until the other day. I was using it during a photo shoot and was shooting tethered from the camera to the laptop. I was using two USB cords together to give me about 16 feet from laptop to camera.
During the majority of the shoot things went fine. Towards the end of the shoot, the images were backing up and not reaching the laptop as fast as they were at the start of the shoot. I got the rainbow swirly for about four minutes and the the other images started showing up that were backed up. I figured that I maxed out the buffer or something.
anyway, after disconnecting the camera, the computer was lagging something horrible. I powered it down and let it sit over night, and today when I came to the studio to power it up, it took forever to power up. it hung on the blue screen, then hung with just the desktop showing, and it took forever for any desktop icons to show up. Finally they did, and I promptly deleted any of the Canon EOS remote capture programs I was using to shoot tethered.
Enter lots of powering down and powering up, constantly taking very long times.
I emailed a local mac store telling them about the issue, and they told me for $90.00 an hour I can bring it in and they can look it over and correct any issues, plus the cost of materials. He said it sounded like it could be either a faulty hard drive, corrupt hard drive directory or
insufficient free hard drive space. It isn't space - I have 9 megs taken up with programs and about 30 gigs free of empty space. I don't have that kind of extra cash right now, so I did some searching on the web. I found a thread over here: http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php?Board=F...
and thought I'd give the "holding down control and S" while powering up option a try.
I just did that, and typed in "fsck -yf" and let it run.
It gave me the following:
/dev/rdisc0s12
root file system
checking HFS Plus volume
checking Extents Overflow file
Checking Catalog file.
Illegal name
Checking multi-linked files
checking catalog hierarchy
checking extended attributes file
checking volume bitmap
checking volume information
reparing volume
rechecking volume
checking HFS Plus volume
checking extents overflow file
checking catalog file
checking multi-linked files
checking catalog heirarchy
checking extended attributes file
checking volume bitmap
checking volume information
The volume Macintosh HD was repaired successfully
*FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED***
localhost:/ root# oct 25 18:09:55 lauchd: chown("/var/launchd/0"): read-only file system
after that I typed in "reboot"
it told me "syncing disks. . . killing all processes.
continuing
IOATAControlle device blocking bus.
IOATAController device blocking bus.
IOATA Controller device blocking bus.
IOATAController device blocking bus.
then it rebooted, but its still taking forever to boot up.
I'm not sure what else to do. Is my HD fudgeed?
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ndrake
 
| | #2 posted October 25, 2007 at 9:58pm (EDT) |
It's possible the drive is dying. I'd highly recommend you backup those pictures (and anything else) just in case. My old 15" G4 powerbook came with a system test type CD that you could boot from and it would test all the hardware. Do you have one of those? |
Sid_Ceaser
| #3 posted October 26, 2007 at 8:24am (EDT)
edited October 26, 2007 at 8:24am (EDT) |
I don't. :(
I got the laptop here on GTZ back in June.
are drives difficult to replace?
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ndrake
| | #4 posted October 26, 2007 at 9:03am (EDT) |
On the 15" model it isn't too tough (see here). Not sure how it may be different for the 12" model. |
Osiris
| | #5 posted October 26, 2007 at 5:49pm (EDT) |
do you have a lot of icons on the desktop, pictures, etc?
Have you run disk first aid under OSX?
Any strange clicking or other drive noises?
Likely there is something from the picture taking session interfering with regular startup, are certain applications set
to boot on startup? Machine run normally after startup?
I would be more likely to think a software rather than a hardware issue. My experience has been that
sick drives clearly die at least once if not finally, and then can be temporarily fixed. |
Sid_Ceaser
| | #6 posted October 26, 2007 at 7:40pm (EDT) |
Hardly any icons on the desktop. Four folders and the hard drive icon (now just the hard drive icon - deleted everything).
I've run first aid twice yesterday. Nothing seemed to have been fixed.
It isn't "clicking" like my iPod once did when the hard drive went, but it makes lots of little noises while its trying to power up.
Machine chugs along after startup, even after I deleted the Canon EOS utilities software that I was using with the camera (this is the first time this issue has happened after shooting tethered about 15 times in various situations)
After it powred up yesterday it sat for a few minutes and then when the screensaver goes on (when the screen darkens a bit) it gave me an error thingy and all these crazy strings and words were all mushed against the screen. Its hard to explain.
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Osiris
| | #7 posted October 27, 2007 at 11:29am (EDT) |
When you ran first aid, any directory errors noted/fixed?
Can you start up with a DVD/CD or an external Drive? Assuming that you have a bootable OSX device.
If so, can you reinstall OSX from either? |
nihon
  
| | #8 posted October 28, 2007 at 11:05am (EDT) |
I had a faulty logic board in my laptop that was causing all sorts of weird errors. I replaced the hard drive first, and that didn't fix anything so i replaced the logic board. Everything is peachy now. Mine is a larger iBook, though.
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Sid_Ceaser
| | #9 posted October 28, 2007 at 6:58pm (EDT) |
what does a logic board do?
Pardon my stupidity - computers aren't something I understand easily.
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nihon
| | #10 posted November 1, 2007 at 10:00pm (EDT) |
A logic board is what Apple calls the motherboard.
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