[leapardcat]

I have a G4 dual 1000mhz. Running OS 10.2. Never had trouble before. Today I try to get into explorer, program shuts down down, and so does Norton's System works, both with errors. I restart thinking it is something strange. Boots to the gray screen mac sign and the swrilling mouse icon freezes about 30 secs into it. Tryed to zap P-ram, it makes the correct noises and still freezes. Tried to boot with out extensions, nothing happens, cannot open my cd rom to insert another cd to boot from, cannot reallly do anything. Tired apple-shift-delete to bypass internal drive and I got a folder with a blinking ? icon and then it goes to boot and freezes. Tried command S and it gets me to the intital screen and cannot type anything or return, nothing. Tried holding alt made it to new screen -OS 10 icon and below it and curved arrow button and a next to it a straight arrow button. both of which did nothing by clicking on. was able to open up cd-rom drive insert cd and still cannot boot from that cd -a nortons cd. still hopeless. Everything is disconnected, keyboard and mouse work on other computer...I am, lost? any suggestions...

[rjenkinson]

do you have an external hard drive you can use to boot the machine with? or a different OS X CD, in case yours is scratched?

-r.

[dagaz]

Have you tried booting from your OSX install CD? If you can there is a Disk Utility option under the Installer menu. From there you can repair disk and repair permissions. BTW Nortons has very bad press with OSX, lots of people say it does more harm than good and most people agree not to install it on the hard drive but to run it off the CD.

The other thing to try is if you have extra RAM installed try taking this out and see if this makes a difference.

Good luck.

[dagaz]

Sorry - double posted - wouldn't let me delete.