Hi,

I have a powerbook g4 17" 1.5ghz. A few months ago, seemingly out of the blue, the screen went bonkers. The best way to describe it is to say it looked like an old vga screen with like 64 colors or whatever. Oddly, a few weeks later it was back to normal. Very unusual. But last week when I tried to start it up, all that happened is the normal 'bong', and the sound of the dvd drive spinning up. The screen did not come on at all. So I restarted it, and the same thing happened except this time the screen came on, and the broken disk icon appeared on the screen for a few seconds, then it started up as normal. This continued in the same manner until today, when all I get is the bong and the the dvd spinning up, and then nothing. No screen powering on, no hard drive sound.

Does anyone have any insight?


Thanks so much!!

**UPDATE**


Ok, the computer was sitting for about an hour and I tried to start it up, and it came on. this seems to be the pattern. If I let is sit for a while it seems to work again.

All I can say is BACK UP THOSE FILES!!!!! Something similar happened a few years ago to my iBook and finally it just stopped working altogether. Sent it in and I think they had to change the hard drive. BACK UP!

sounds like the same problem my friend had, i think with his macbook g4 or whatever its called. i know there was a recall on the graphics card on some of these machines, but his completely crapped out although he can still turn it on and still access files via a network.

bummer when it happens, but you may want to call apple and see what the deal is. or just get a macbook pro.... hehe