Within the last few days my iBook G4 (1 1/2 years old) is suddenly taking a very long time booting up. Takes about 5 minutes to pass the gray-scale apple screen.
Then last night it hung opening Photoshop. I rebooted, zapped the pram, but the problem persisted. Hung again in Photoshop, so I delete the preferences and that seemed to work to get photoshop running.
Ran Techtools (not from the CD drive) and it said everything is fine. Tried to run Disk Utility, and it hung. Tried to run Diskwarrior from CD drive, and, after holding down "c" key during boot up I got a screen reading "you need to reboot your computer." Disk Warriar never came up.
I tried changing the startup disk in system preferences and it hangs on that preference, and it never shows the actual startup disk or the CD.
Also, it hangs when I run System Profiler.
Help, please.
--dd
Then last night it hung opening Photoshop. I rebooted, zapped the pram, but the problem persisted. Hung again in Photoshop, so I delete the preferences and that seemed to work to get photoshop running.
Ran Techtools (not from the CD drive) and it said everything is fine. Tried to run Disk Utility, and it hung. Tried to run Diskwarrior from CD drive, and, after holding down "c" key during boot up I got a screen reading "you need to reboot your computer." Disk Warriar never came up.
I tried changing the startup disk in system preferences and it hangs on that preference, and it never shows the actual startup disk or the CD.
Also, it hangs when I run System Profiler.
Help, please.
--dd