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Powerbook 540 won't boot, makes wooop wooop noises - 2009/01/27 11:57Hi I wonder if anyone can help me out here...
I have obtained an old powerbook 540 which upon powering up makes an odd 'woop woop' noise about every 20 seconds. It does not boot from either hard drive or os7 floppy disk but the mouse pointer is visible on screen at all times and will move if I touch the trackpad.
Any advice would be highly appreciated!
Many thanks, Thomas
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Re:Powerbook 540 won't boot, makes wooop wooop noises - 2009/01/27 20:27I would guess that noise you hear is the drive spinning and accessing data. If there was a serious problem you would hear the chime of death that sounds like breaking glass.
Does it sound like it's reading the floppy disk at all ?
I would download the System disk images from Apple's old downloads page and make a new boot floppy just in case yours is bad.
Does it have a square SCSI port on the back ? I'm not sure if that model has it or not. If it does you could try booting from an external CD-ROM if you have one with the Powerbook SCSI cable.
Most likely the hard drive is dying. Unfortunately that Powerbook uses a SCSI laptop drive and I don't know where you can find one except eBay or the LEMSwap google group.
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