[ryanbrown345]

Help I have stuck blue screen when I try to start OSX right before it will open and a spinning disk! I have looked on the apple.com and nothing they have said has worked so far! So please help me with this! I can boot in safe mode! I also can boot in OS 9 but can't get to normal OSX! please help1

Also I have an imac

[Brass]

If nothing they've said has worked so far, please let us know what things you've actually tried. This will give us a starting point.

Have you tried moving (renaming) your /Library folder?

Do you use auto-login? If so, have you tried moving (renaming) your ~/Library folder?

(You can do this in single-user mode, or in Mac OS 9)

New folders will be created automatically, when Mac OS X finds them missing. This will test if it is some corrupt preference file, font, etc that is causing this problem.

[sbjordal]

Originally posted by ryanbrown345:
Help I have stuck blue screen when I try to start OSX right before it will open and a spinning disk! I have looked on the apple.com and nothing they have said has worked so far! So please help me with this! I can boot in safe mode! I also can boot in OS 9 but can't get to normal OSX! please help1

Also I have an imac

http://docs.info.apple.com/article2.html?artnum=106464

[csimon2]

This happened to me after I tried putting a skin onto OS X that wasn't compatible. After searching for answers for months, (yes, months) the only solution I could find was backing up my user folder and wiping the disk and reinstalling X. I have OS 9 and X on different partitions, so backing up was easy. If you have both on the same partition, try using a startup disk to boot into 9 and backup, or holding down the option key after the startup chime if you have a "new world" mac.

The blue screen came up after login and all the directory services started. Once X reached the finder, the finder would appear for a few seconds, but then a blue blanket came over the screen. The mouse would remain atop however. If that is similar to your problem, do as I suggested. BTW, repeated calls to Apple tech support were of no help, though they tried.