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kold_kid - Jul 26, 2005 - 6:12 pm
hi,
am using somebody else's comp to get this email through since my mac has completely frozen on me.....i have a quicksilver G4 running OSX jaguar....i had a system maintenance program called something like System Optimizer X....it was running a weekly maintenance run and has always called problems....this time it has completely frozen my comp to the point where it wont even start up and freezes at the point of the grey screen with the apple logo and the spinning disk..do you have any suggestions as to what i can do ? i have trashed the p-ram and have tried to startup holding the shift key but all to no avail....any help would be greatly appreciated
wajid
a2daj - Jul 27, 2005 - 4:07 am
Hello,
Are you still using the hard drive which came with the system? I had a Quicksilver G4 which had an IBM Deskstar hard drive. Those hard drives were nicked named the IBM Deathstars because of a well known, incredibly high failure rate. My Deathstar failed on me within a year (just out of warranty) so I had to replace it with another drive.
Do you have an OS X install disk? You can boot up with that and run Disk Utilities (it should show up in one of the menus when you boot into the Install utility). Once you're in Disk Utilties, try and repair the disk.
Are you still using the hard drive which came with the system? I had a Quicksilver G4 which had an IBM Deskstar hard drive. Those hard drives were nicked named the IBM Deathstars because of a well known, incredibly high failure rate. My Deathstar failed on me within a year (just out of warranty) so I had to replace it with another drive.
Do you have an OS X install disk? You can boot up with that and run Disk Utilities (it should show up in one of the menus when you boot into the Install utility). Once you're in Disk Utilties, try and repair the disk.
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