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Join Date: Mar 2002
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Last night my iMac was working fine, and this morning when I got up, I got this light grey screen with a globe that blinks. Anyone have any ideas what this could be?
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I have an MacBook, 15" monitor, 1 GIG ram, 120 gig internal hard drive, 500 gig external hard drive, and an iMac with 40 gig internal hard drive with iSight web cam. Using Mac OS 10.5 Leopard
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Hold down "Option" at startup and then select your main HD as the main boot volume/system folder to boot off of...
Not sure, but that may fix your issue.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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your mac is trying to connect to a network...
can you get past that screen?
try booting in safe mode (hold the Shift key during startup, until the spinning icon comes up at the bottom).
if you get to the Finder, go to startup disk in system preferences and assign your hard drive to startup...
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"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
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I tried holding down the option key and I got a screen for a password and I tried all the passwords I use. I also tried the thing of holding the shift key and nothing happened with that.
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I have an MacBook, 15" monitor, 1 GIG ram, 120 gig internal hard drive, 500 gig external hard drive, and an iMac with 40 gig internal hard drive with iSight web cam. Using Mac OS 10.5 Leopard
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hey 
try starting off a CD. Hold down the mouse when it starts which will eject the CD try. Inseret the CD then restart holding down C. Best to use the restore CD that came with the machine and see if that helps.
I'd run the repair permissions if it does start of the CD and reset your password to be safe.
Give that a go
MM-o4
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Originally posted by trek2008:
I tried holding down the option key and I got a screen for a password and I tried all the passwords I use. I also tried the thing of holding the shift key and nothing happened with that.
You have an Open Firmware Password set. This will cause you issues. If you absolutely cannot remember the password, you must do the following:[list=1][*]Add or remove DIMMs to change the total amount of RAM in the computer.[*]Reset the PRAM 3 times (by holding down cmd-opt-p-r at boot)[/list=1]
Basically, your computer is looking for a NetBoot server. Since you don't have one, it's having issues. I'm not entirely sure if it'll eventually time-out, in which case you should be able to fix it by using System Preferences' Startup Disk pane (and also disable the OF password).
Edit: Change the list to numeric rather then unnumbered, since gorickey got confuzzled.
(Last edited by Angus_D; Aug 18, 2004 at 07:25 AM.
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Originally posted by Angus_D:
[*]Reset the PRAM 3 times (by holding down cmd-opt-p-r at boot)
That's all it takes to disable the OF password? Please tell me that's not true...
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Originally posted by gorickey:
That's all it takes to disable the OF password? Please tell me that's not true...
You must complete both steps in that order. Doing so requires access to the insides of the computer. If someone has unsupervised access to the insides of the computer such that they can add or remove RAM sticks, all bets are off anyway.
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Originally posted by Angus_D:
You must complete both steps in that order. Doing so requires access to the insides of the computer. If someone has unsupervised access to the insides of the computer such that they can add or remove RAM sticks, all bets are off anyway.
Gotcha, thats a little better to say the least then...
No Longer Confuzzled.®
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