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scotsman - May 25, 2005 - 10:27 am
My daughter's g4 running osx 10.3 has become very very slow, and when she attempted to restart, it went to blue startup screen with the spinning pinwheel, and will NOT go past this. Any sugestions?
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Natobasso - May 26, 2005 - 1:26 am
Howdy!
First, try to hit the eject key and then put your system disk in. You'll want to NOT reinstall OS X but go to File/Open Disk Utility and run "Repair Disk". If the drive won't open you can do this when you restart the computer:
Command + Option + O + F, type in "eject cd" in the prompt, put the cd in, close the tray with the eject button, then type mac-boot to boot up. However, you might only have to hit the eject key to get the drive bay to open.
Here's another way to open the drive on your G4:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25345
Hopefully it's just a software/permissions thing. If not you should boot with your Hardware Test CD and have it test your hardware to see if you have some bad RAM or something else of that nature.
Let me know how this works out.
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Nat
flikworld.com
First, try to hit the eject key and then put your system disk in. You'll want to NOT reinstall OS X but go to File/Open Disk Utility and run "Repair Disk". If the drive won't open you can do this when you restart the computer:
Command + Option + O + F, type in "eject cd" in the prompt, put the cd in, close the tray with the eject button, then type mac-boot to boot up. However, you might only have to hit the eject key to get the drive bay to open.
Here's another way to open the drive on your G4:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25345
Hopefully it's just a software/permissions thing. If not you should boot with your Hardware Test CD and have it test your hardware to see if you have some bad RAM or something else of that nature.
Let me know how this works out.
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Nat
flikworld.com
scotsman - May 27, 2005 - 9:42 am
Thanks for the help. Here's where I stand now. Got it to boot from the system cd. Ran repair disk. so far so good. It then restarted from the internal hard disk, booted up os x. Seemed ok, but after a few minutes, system got really really slow. Repaired permissions. 3 times. Every time it said the same permissions were wrong.
Anyway, after repairing permissions, it seemed fine, but about ten minutes later, it got slow again.
at the moment, I have loaned my daughter my old ibook. Any ideas where to go next with her g4?
Thanks
John
Anyway, after repairing permissions, it seemed fine, but about ten minutes later, it got slow again.
at the moment, I have loaned my daughter my old ibook. Any ideas where to go next with her g4?
Thanks
John
Natobasso - May 27, 2005 - 11:56 am
Run a hardware test and see if you have some bad RAM. If you can't find anything that way you might want to get that computer serviced by a licensed tech.
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Nat
flikworld.com
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Nat
flikworld.com
scotsman - Jun 4, 2005 - 12:07 pm
Nat
Well, the problem turned out to be a faulty or noncompatible combo drive. Took it out, replaced it with an old apple cdrom drive, and all was well. completely fixed. weird huh?
Thanks again for your help
John
Well, the problem turned out to be a faulty or noncompatible combo drive. Took it out, replaced it with an old apple cdrom drive, and all was well. completely fixed. weird huh?
Thanks again for your help
John
Natobasso - Jun 4, 2005 - 12:33 pm
You bet! Glad I could help. Sorry your drive crapped out.
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