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Urgent Help Needed - Power PC Will Not Boot
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Apr 2005
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This morning I tried starting my machine and got through the login and the desktop picture came up, but no icons, just the spinning beach ball.
Reboot yields same thing.
Connected a firewire drive and loaded the OS on the drive. Restarted and the same thing happened running off the firewire drive.
Ran the 5-10 minute test tools CD and everything seems to pass the quick test. I had to skip the video ram test as I ran out of time.
Machine is:
Dual 2.0 Ghz (one month old)
1.5 Gig Memory
30" Apple Cin Display w/ 6800 vid card
Logictech MX1000 mouse
The data on the hard disk is more important than the hardware. My first concern is recovery of that data.
Thanks in advance,
Marv
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Try flashing PRAM (hold cmd-option-p-r) at startup. Press power then the above and wait for the machine to chime a few times before releasing.
After that, try to boot from CD and reinstall the OS (overtop the old).
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Newport News, VA USA
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Thanks!!!
I tried safe mode and was able to rescure critical documents. I am probably going to upgrade to Tiger and do a clean install next.
Marv
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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If safe mode worked, there's a good chance it's just your preferences that are hosed.
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Chuck
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