Update:
Well, I finally dug it out of the closet. I decided I was going to tear the sucker apart to see how hard it would be to replace the hard drive if necessary. Pulled up ifixit, removed hundreds of screws... and just to my surprise, two of the screws connecting the top case are stripped. Whoever opened up this sucker before I did wanted to make sure that nobody else was going to get into it, I've never seen screws so tight in my life. picture (bottom two with orange rings). So I ended up reassembling it, and it still powered on. There is probably some way to remove the screws but I don't know if the effort is worth it, honestly. With it being bare bone specs and parts not easily accessible, its almost just as affordable to buy another whole unit before fixing this...
As a last resort, some guy mentioned on another forum that it could be the OS 9 CD that I had was corrupt. It wasn't mine anyway, and I returned it a while back. So I went and hunted down a 9.2.1 copy on eBay just to see if it would give me different results. Well, it installed OS 9 and everything was peachy until I restarted it the second time. It started giving me bomb errors again at the loading screen, regardless if extensions were on or not (illegal instruction, error type 10). I'm starting to think this is some sort of HDD issue, since the machine can load off the OS 9 CD and work fine. The only way that the OS will load fine is if you leave it at the clean install and don't open up any applications or change any settings.
So from here, it looks like this iBook is seriously screwed up. I'm not even sure if its worth fixing anymore or what to do with it. Back to the bookshelf. :disapprove:
Well, I finally dug it out of the closet. I decided I was going to tear the sucker apart to see how hard it would be to replace the hard drive if necessary. Pulled up ifixit, removed hundreds of screws... and just to my surprise, two of the screws connecting the top case are stripped. Whoever opened up this sucker before I did wanted to make sure that nobody else was going to get into it, I've never seen screws so tight in my life. picture (bottom two with orange rings). So I ended up reassembling it, and it still powered on. There is probably some way to remove the screws but I don't know if the effort is worth it, honestly. With it being bare bone specs and parts not easily accessible, its almost just as affordable to buy another whole unit before fixing this...
As a last resort, some guy mentioned on another forum that it could be the OS 9 CD that I had was corrupt. It wasn't mine anyway, and I returned it a while back. So I went and hunted down a 9.2.1 copy on eBay just to see if it would give me different results. Well, it installed OS 9 and everything was peachy until I restarted it the second time. It started giving me bomb errors again at the loading screen, regardless if extensions were on or not (illegal instruction, error type 10). I'm starting to think this is some sort of HDD issue, since the machine can load off the OS 9 CD and work fine. The only way that the OS will load fine is if you leave it at the clean install and don't open up any applications or change any settings.
So from here, it looks like this iBook is seriously screwed up. I'm not even sure if its worth fixing anymore or what to do with it. Back to the bookshelf. :disapprove: