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krowmagnum
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Re:Powerbook 540 won't boot, makes wooop wooop noises - 2009/01/27 20:27 I 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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Powerbook 540 won't boot, makes wooop wooop noises

Thomas Willis

2009/01/27 11:57

Re:Powerbook 540 won't boot, makes wooop wooop noises

krowmagnum

2009/01/27 20:27

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