PowerBook G4 HELP computer wont start?

Question

My powerbook g4, that i have had for a little over a year wont go past the white apple screen (the screen that comes on before the deskdop comes on. it's a white screen, with an apple in the middle and a little round circle thing going round and round.) I've left it on for a while, restarted it, let the battery run out, i took the battery out.. it wont start.

It's one of the computers that had a faulty battery. I just ordered the new battery. I havn't got it yet. I had taken the old battery out a few times to check the bar codes and stuff to order the new battery. After this, my computer wouldn't log on to the desktop. It shouldn't have anythign to do with the battery, becasue the computer is supposed to work without the battery when it's plugged in.

I'm going to eventually take it in to the apple store, but i've been busy and it's going ot take me a few days or a week or something. I was wondering if anyone on here could help??

THANKS.

Answer 1

You can try a few things like booting into safe mode, booting off the install disc that came with your PB G4 or booting to single user mode to run fsck.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/help/2/
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464

It could also be the PRAM Battery, try resetting it.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238

PowerBook: Testing Backup Battery
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30017

Good Luck!

Answer 2

I'm not much of a Mac OSX expert but i'm a mac fan, by the way can you try re-installing the OS or apply a backup (that is if you have previously made a backup), coz from what you say, the trouble should in loading a startup program/driver or a corrupted boot loader. so generally speaking re-instaaling the OS or applying the backup should fix the problem.