I'm not sure I ever did boot it in verbose mode to be honest. I did run AHT on it, once it started seeing the DVD drive but it passed all those tests okay.
I didn't try booting it from a firewire drive for the simple reason that I don't have one, only a USB external drive, but since this problem I do intend to get a firewire drive and try exactly that.
I've ordered a new hard drive for it. I'm actually going to upgrade my main Powerbook G4 to a 160Gb drive and put the old one from this one into the one that needs the new drive. Ultimately I hope to have two identical running Powerbook G4, 1.67's, one as a main machine and one as a backup machine should anything happen to the first one.
Once the new hard drive arrives I'll boot the faulty machine in verbose mode and see what it says and try it from the external firewire drive when I get one.
Cheers!
I didn't try booting it from a firewire drive for the simple reason that I don't have one, only a USB external drive, but since this problem I do intend to get a firewire drive and try exactly that.
I've ordered a new hard drive for it. I'm actually going to upgrade my main Powerbook G4 to a 160Gb drive and put the old one from this one into the one that needs the new drive. Ultimately I hope to have two identical running Powerbook G4, 1.67's, one as a main machine and one as a backup machine should anything happen to the first one.
Once the new hard drive arrives I'll boot the faulty machine in verbose mode and see what it says and try it from the external firewire drive when I get one.
Cheers!