startup

Hi there, please let me start by saying your website is great! I have learned so much already. Now for the problem :-) I have a Dual (1GHz) G4 Quicksilver 2002-model and it was working fine for a few yrs. Two weeks ago it did not boot anymore, no sound, no video, nothing. The service...

I have a powermac g4 (mirrored drive doors) and when i start up my mac the fans rev up after the startup chime. They stay at this accelerated speed until the "welcome to mac os x" screen comes up, then they go back to regular speed. This has happened to me before and I brought it to the...

Hello everyone, Recently our mac running OS 10.3.9 has had an intersting problem. Classic attempts to run at startup, even though the options in preferances tell it not to run at startup, and even to warn. We also notice that something is hogging all of the computer's processing power. When i...

i have a pb12" 1.5ghz running osx10.4 and of late am having startup abnormality. the startup splash screen will have a square box with a globe of the america continent flashing for 10 sec followed by another icon of mac finder + question mark. would like to know what is wrong with the osx n how...

I have a 10.4.2 dual G5 that I recently converted to Tiger from Panther. Since the conversion, my bluetooth (a Dlink dongle) is slow to startup bluetooth services. I have to wait about 20-30 seconds when getting the login window to wait for my bluetooth keyboard and mouse to come online. If I...

Hi, Bit of a problem: a number of the Mac applications (Mail, Safari, Address Book, Installer, ICal that I know of so far) for OS X 10.3.9 refuse to open. They will start to open and then go into the continually spinning disk, or they just freeze up before anything opens. Non-Mac apps (Firefox...

I have a titanium Powerbook G4 runnig Mac OS 10.2.? that is several years old. I ran software update (which hadn't been run in a year or two) and now it won't boot up. When I turn it on it has a grey screen with the apple logo and the turning wheel thing. Then it goes to a blue screen and...

My iBook kept freezing on startup (grey screen but no icon), so I started up with the System 9 CD I went to Mac Help and followed the instructions. (Basically to run Disk First Aid and do something with the driver -- I followed all instructions.) When I ran Disk First Aid, after about a...

my computer used to connect to airport automatically at startup, now i have to manually connect. dunno why, it used to work. does anyone have a clue because i cannot see an option to connect at startup in the system prefs (ok, theres automatic in the location menu and automatic in the "by...

Lately I've had an issue with my eMac (Mac OS 10.3.9) because it seems to go a shade of grey and tell me in several languages that I need to restart my computer. It almost always does this at the grey Apple logo startup screen, but occasionally it'll happen after I get to the login screen...

Hi. Running this crappy Tiger - installed Illustrator cs2 - tried to fire it up - crashed. Got this report: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Kern_invalid_address (0x0001) at 0xbf7ffac0 (and much more....) Can any of you wicked smaht kids help bring my puter back? Suggestions (other than kicking...

Hi, I'm having major problems with my OSX G3 iBook. Basically I need to load, OS 9, but can only do this from startup. I've pressed Command + S, now I am presented with the command line scipt. What do I input to boot into OS 9. (Its on my system). Thankyou

I have a 15" pb 867 MHz running 10.2. It froze (no cursor movement, no response to opt-cmd-esc or cmd-tab) so I powered down by holding the power button, then tried to start up again. It made several beeps and started flashing the sleep-indicator led in a pause-four(?) flashes-pause pattern...

i was watching a dvd on powerbook 2 days ago and it suddenly frooze. I had to press powerbutton down for 5 seconds to turn it off. when i started it up again i could hear the startup chime but the screen stays blank. the dvd still in the drive spins up and everything sounds like its starting...

Help! I am running mac os x server on a g4 with an old sony (not flat) screen. I was able to install the server from the installation cd, and then updated it all with the available updates... I think the problem is somehow linked the fact that before i shut it down i changed the screen...

Hi after many years naysaying macs I've finally made the switch. I'm a long time linux user and the idea of unix with a gorgeous gui on top was just to much to resist. My plan was to purchase an older Powermac G4 to upgrade. Its a G4 400mhz, Gigabit Ethernet, 512mb Ram, DVD-Rom drive. In order...

Hi - hope somone can help and that this is not a silly question! I have had my 15" powerbook for 18 months now and the cable broke about 4 weeks ago. Due to moving house and country it has taken me 4 weeks to get a replacement - this is the longest the laptop has ever been off. I got the...

I run a Subversion server, and need to start the Apache program on startup, but it needs root permission (sudo) to launch properly. Is there a way to do this, by storing the root password or something, so it is automatic? I just need to run this at login/startup: sudo...

Greetings. I'm running a G4 Tower 400 Mhz. When I start up I sometimes get the Darwin login screen. Sometimes it starts up normally and I get to me desktop. However, when I do successfully boot up, I find that files are missing from my Users folder. All my iTunes disappeared, for example, also...

Can you please help me with a start-up problem? When I try to switch on my G4 by pressing either the button on the screen or the computer the one can hear one of the hard drives start to spin up, both the button lights come on then a few seconds later the whole process stops, the drive spins...