startup

My hard drive seems to have died, it takes ages to boot and just continually says 'starting mac osx' ran repair via disk utility and i get the 'invalid key length' error (iv'e looked around, thats a bad error!) Anyway to repair this without buying diskwarrior? If i reinstall over the...

OK - just started a little over a week ago - One of my hard drives in my MDD dual 1Ghz PowerMac has quit mounting on the desktop. I can usually get it to mount using DiskUtility. Running Disk First Aid doesn't find anything wrong 99% of the time. The one time it does, it's normally a file...

I have an iMac 333 running mac os 10.1.5. I recently bought a powered USB Hub and it works great but recently I have found that my computer won't startup with it connected. I know that with an iMac you have to have a keyboard connected to make it startup and that keyboard can't be connected to a...

Hello, I've been searching all over, and can't seem to find a solution.. and i'm not a mac person, so it makes it harder. Here are the specs: Dual G4, 1Ghx, 1.25Gb ram, Boot Rom: 4.3.3f2 The OSX version is 10.3.8 (7U16) When I power the system, the startup chime "hisses" and...

I am sure this has been discussed before, but when i try to do a search it says it is disabled. So sorry for a repost. I want to run a script I wrote at startup with root or sudo privilage. Is there a tutorial or something on how to do this or can someone explain it? Thanks Scott

I have 3 computers in my school (OS 10.4.2) that upon startup launch an application. I can't find anywhere to stop this. There are no programs set in Automater. Can anyone help? the programs are iTunes and Microsoft Word. Thank you, Susan

yes. I think it is a firewire or usb issue. but I can't seem to fix it. The only work around is to UNPLUG all FIREWIRE and USB devices and then PLUG THEM BACK IN AFTER The CPU and DESKTOP boot up. can anyone? give me any idea as to why this is happening? HOW DO YOU REBUILD THE DESKTOP...

Hi all, Having frustrating problems with all my Adobe software in tiger. All Adobe software crashes on startup. I get the bouncing icon in the dock then it just stops. I have bee trawling through the web and have been through many of the pages here that sound relevant, explored all the...

God knows what I've done to get here, but Tiger now refuses to start my startup items. It doesn't issue any kind of complaint, just ignores them. I can start each of them manually, but the ones that are installed in my Accounts panel are ignored. I've checked permissions, deleted and...

Hello, I turned on my G3/400 and Software Update informed me that there was an upgrade available, but after this upgrade, all I get is an Apple Logo with a spinning clock thing under it for a while, then the screen turns blue and a cursor appears in the upper left hand corners of the screen...

My G4 running OSX 3.9 is freezing on startup at windows login. This just happened suddenly after I installed and was using Nikon Scan 4 with a Nikon LS-4000 slide scanner. I'm wondering if low disk space is an issue I think I had 2 Gigs left. I tried booting off the system disk but it gave me...

Recently installed a Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-845S into my G4 Aluminum PowerBook. Running Mac OS 10.4.3. Drive works flawlessly except that it won't boot from a Boot CD or DVD using the "Command - C" Keyboard command. I can choose the boot CD or DVD from the "Startup Disk" System Preference and...

I ran the postfix enabler to try to solve a mail server issue, and since doing that- postfix processes are present at startup. I don't use postfix now, and i need to stop postfix from binding to port 25 when the server starts up. how do i tell postfix to stop launching?

Hi, I experience long startup time after the 10.4.3 update on my iMac 450 DV+. How long time it took before the update I can't tell, but now it takes about 55 sec with the light grey screen with the dark grey Apple logo, and the another 10 secs with the blue "Starting Mac OS X" screen. In...

Hi all, I've a Powerbook G4 running osx server which I've been running with as external monitor as the screen on it is broken. The harddrive in it got full and the computer crashed so I force restared it, but now it won't startup. The external monitor doesn't turn on and I'm pretty sure the...

Hi all. this is my first time here and im in desperate need of help. I have a Powerbook (900mhz) which cannot start due to the fact that it cannot "see" the startup disk. One minute its on sleep - next minute when i wake it up, first it shows the grey semi-transparent box with different...

After i hit the button on the bac of my mac mini and it gives me the start up noise it has always taken me straight to the apple logo on the grey background. This is no longer the case. Now when i hit the button and get the start up noise it gives a me a flashing icon of a planet (presumably...

hi i have a common problem with processor noise with my g5...i have to use chud tools and disable nap everytime i start it up which is abit long. However iv been told that i can get OSX to do this automatically if i create a startup script using the following "hwprefs -v cpu_nap=false". when i...

G-4 desktop running panther. I tried to load a classic system OS-9 bu changing the startup disc to the OS-9 disc. I now get only a question mark. How can I get around this.

Hi, I just switched to using my own account account instead of using the admin one. How do I make my computer start up without it automatcially loggin into admin? and instead show the login screen?