startup

hi, my nephew has just been given an ibook (1.33 g4 60gb hd 512mb ram), and it won't boot up properly. It starts up ok, gets to the default blue desktop but when the finder tries to launch it gets stuck, only the spotlight icon is visible and the spinninng umbrella is there constantly...

Hello I am new to this site and I have a problem! My imac G4 flat panel is ill! When i turn the power button on i get the normal chime and the white light at the bottom is there but the screen is black. I changed the battery but that has not worked, and when I do manage to get the display on...

Just installed Tiger, didn't think it installed because it said the hard drive did not have enough free space. It shows version 10.4, but other programs are having problems, still getting window of not enough space after lots of trashing. Couldn't figure out how to delete OS 9 so i tried...

I have an iBook G3 500 and with a 10GB drive. I wanted to put a new hard drive in it so I took it apart and put in the new drive and now all I get when I boot is a solid grey screen. The CD drive does not spin, the hard drive does not spin. If I unplug the IDE cable from the board I get the...

what's wrong when i push the power button and all that happens is the fan starts blowing. i have hard drive problems before but i've always been able to boot from the cd's but now it doesn't. I don't see how it can be the hard drive b/c it was replaced it may.

help pllllllllllllllease!!! i'm running osx 10.3 and my mouse becomes a revolving lollipop as soon as i try to click on something after startup. I can't even use my keyboard shortcuts to access folders. I don't even know where this came from,...I finished using my computer and the damn thing...

I have an iMac 800ghz G4. During startup while there is the white screen and the grey apple a funky black bar appear. There's little pixels of blue and white in it. I have tried Resetting the PRAM, starting up in Single-user mode, starting up in Verbose mode and running fsck. None of these...

I am new to Macs. I recently installed Stuffit Deluxe and it added a "Magic Menu" to the toolbar at the top of the screen for quick start purposes. As in windows, does this affect the performance of the system? How do I prevent it from automatically starting when Tiger boots up? In Windows...

When go to the System Prefs and to Startup Disk to start the computer in Os9, the hard drive that Os9 is located on does not show up.

how can i make a Macintosh powerbook 190 startup disk without my mac running properly for say on my dell?

Hi, I'd like to add the Gmail Notifier to start when os x boots, how can i do that? and also for the future anyother apps thanks

I had to re-partition my startup disk so I used to Disk Utility to make an image of it before partitioning. I have now re-partitioned and wish to copy all the files back on. I have now run into two problems. (1) The restore feature in Disk Utility does not work. The "Destination" field is always...

Hi, Have a minimac. My monitor blacks out on the moment it should display the finder. It used to work but after doing a system update which crashed this happened. I re-installed the system but that didn't work. When starting from the system CD the display works fine. Any ideas?

Hi, i have a mac computer with OS 9.2 and on startup it always ask me for the password to the server that it is suppose to connect too. It connects to a windows 2003 server. Well i want to know if there is a way to have the mac log in automaticly on startup, can you help me? Thanks, Dennis

I've been having this recurring problem, and the other threads don't seem to fit. My 15" Powerbook with Tiger installed, has regular kernel panics. Sometimes restarting is a breeze...no problems. But often, it takes numerous restart attempts to get the machine to boot. On some restarts I...

I have a PowerBook G4 running OS 10.3.9 – when I boot up the system with Airport still enabled, it can take a long time (10 – 15 mins) before the system starts up. Is this normal??? The laptop basically connects to two different Wireless networks – one at school and the other at home. Normally I...

I have a G4 running 10.4.2. Sometimes (no everytime) I get a message during startup telling me to "restart" the computer. Typically, if I hold down the power key, shut-down, wait a minute or 2 and restart, it works just fine. As I said, it does not happen on each start-up. Any ideas?

I'd like to run a script that starts up Tomcat web server every time I start the Mac. I see the /Library/Startup Items folder, but it doesn't seem that I can just drop a script file in there. I tried adding the script file as a startup item for an admin user, in the Preferences Panel, but that...

Our Apple G5 OS X 10.3.5 power-mac is very slow after start up. Symptoms: the desktop clock keeps showing the same time although the system time is alright. programs like excel and word do not start up. if you stop the extensis X1 suitcase the system becomes a bit more workable. But the...

I have a Imac G3 400mHz slot loading tray running OS X Tiger, is slow but running great, today I turn on my Imac, the screen becan grey and black with white letters all over the screen and after that the computer freez, the first line said: panic (cpu 0 caller 0x002DE020): Unable to find...