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Stuck on gray screen after 10.2.3
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Bijan Mobasseri
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Dec 27, 2002, 12:20 AM
 
I have a G4 AGP with everything stock. After the update, bootup gets stuck on gray screen with Apple logo. I have:

-repaired disk/permissions
-updated firmware
-tried to reinstall 10.2 from the CD but doesn't let me

I can boot into 9 and 10.2 on an external firewire drive. Is there anyway I can just wipe X out clean and start from scratch?
     
milhous
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Dec 27, 2002, 12:55 AM
 
Originally posted by Bijan Mobasseri:
I have a G4 AGP with everything stock. After the update, bootup gets stuck on gray screen with Apple logo. I have:

-repaired disk/permissions
-updated firmware
-tried to reinstall 10.2 from the CD but doesn't let me

I can boot into 9 and 10.2 on an external firewire drive. Is there anyway I can just wipe X out clean and start from scratch?
Try zapping your PRAM?

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pat++
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Dec 27, 2002, 11:44 AM
 
Boot in verbose mode (cmd-V) during startup and see what's happening...
     
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Dec 27, 2002, 03:32 PM
 
same thing happened to me...

i used norton utilities to fix and repair my disks - after i formatted and partitioned my hardrive

it worked
     
veryniceguy2002
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Dec 28, 2002, 05:46 AM
 
Originally posted by Bijan Mobasseri:
I have a G4 AGP with everything stock. After the update, bootup gets stuck on gray screen with Apple logo. I have:

-repaired disk/permissions
-updated firmware
-tried to reinstall 10.2 from the CD but doesn't let me

I can boot into 9 and 10.2 on an external firewire drive. Is there anyway I can just wipe X out clean and start from scratch?
Do you have an Apple LCD studio dispaly, and installed the software CD comes with the Studio display? If you have done so, that could be the problem...
     
   
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