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damn... is my 12"pb toast?!?! need HELP please!
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: earth
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hi all, so my pb just stopped working today. basically, an excel spreadsheet froze so i did a force quit. seemed like the fan was running pretty hard, so i did a reboot in case something was spinning in the background and it needed to really get killed. upon reboot, i was able to login and then my startup apps mostly launched and it froze with the last few coming online (only 4 that launch at startup). tried another reboot and same thing. let it cool down for like 30 minutes until it was cool to the touch and tried to boot, same thing.
at this point, my machine boots so that i can log in, it loads the desktop/finder, begins loading startup apps and then freezes (no mouse movement or any type of response).
any ideas here? this sucks... 
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Memphis, Tn. USA
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Originally Posted by ph0ust 
hi all, so my pb just stopped working today. basically, an excel spreadsheet froze so i did a force quit. seemed like the fan was running pretty hard, so i did a reboot in case something was spinning in the background and it needed to really get killed. upon reboot, i was able to login and then my startup apps mostly launched and it froze with the last few coming online (only 4 that launch at startup). tried another reboot and same thing. let it cool down for like 30 minutes until it was cool to the touch and tried to boot, same thing.
at this point, my machine boots so that i can log in, it loads the desktop/finder, begins loading startup apps and then freezes (no mouse movement or any type of response).
any ideas here? this sucks...
Reboot holding down shift key, if that works, than one of your startup programs is malfunctioning.
Try each and if one snags delete it's preferences.
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2003
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thanks for the advice! i safe booted and have been slowly turning things on. i think it might have something to do with my wireless internet connection. are there preferences i can delete for that specifically, and if i do... does it delete all my wireless networks? thanks.
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2003
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ok, so i really am pretty sure something is wrong with my wireless drivers or something related. my airport connection is not even loading (i.e. the airport menu or anything related). in the recent past, i noticed that i would lose connection to my wireless network periodically (it would not see it or connect at all). i would reboot and that sort of solved the problem, but now reboots often don't.
any idea what is going on here or any solution? thanks.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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No error messages? Do you see Airport information in System Profiler when the problem manifests itself?
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2006
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also do a full hard drive check.
i had a similar issue and my hard drive was dying slowly...
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