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Weird freeze/boot problem
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Atlanta, GA
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I've been having a very strange problem with my 1.6 GHz G5 tower for the past two days. When I wake the machine from sleep, it sits at a black screen (I require a password to wake from sleep), with the login screen never appearing. I have to do a hard shut down to get out of it. When I restart the machine, it sits at the grey screen (where the apple logo is), but the Apple logo never appears; it's just a completely grey screen. No matter how long I leave it, it never progresses beyond that. When it is in that state, even touching the power button (rather than holding it down) powers the machine off. If I power it off and leave it sitting for an hour or so, then (so far; This is only the third time I've done this) it will boot normally.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on? I'm worried that it might be a fried component rather than a corrupt hard drive or something since it's not even making it to the Apple logo (ie: It hasn't begun to load from the hard drive yet). Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Baninated
Join Date: May 2005
Location: England
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when you wake it from sleep, does the mouse turn to a spinning beach ball?
if it does, this signifies that the computer is trying to wake up but one of the sub-systems wont start. it could be a network, airport or (and most likely) it is probably the hard drive trying to spin up (and some big hard drives can take up to 45 secs to spin up so before it starts most people just power-cycle their mac before it starts again).
and when it starts up again, it is probably something to do with the hard drive again. still starting up perhaps?
i dont think its anything to serious.
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Atlanta, GA
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Yes, it beachballs when I wake from sleep. Also, I realized that I forgot to mention that once I get it booted, it tends to beachball after about 30 minutes of uptime, no matter which app I am in... (Yes, I've repaired permissions/repaired disk)
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Atlanta, GA
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So, my computer finally just stopped recognizing the drive altogether. When I boot from the install DVD, Disk Utility doesn't even show it. I assumed that the hard drive failed, and bought a new 160GB Seagate SATA drive. I installed it, and Disk Utility still doesn't see the drive. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm terribly worried that my computer's SATA connector(s) are fried (which would be bad, since the cost of repair will be close to the cost of a new machine).
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