startup

i have an ibook g3 and im not sure which version of jaguar i am running on. the computer freezes when it comes to the grey apple screen with the spinning symbol below the apple. i have tried booting in safe mode and by optical disk but none seem to work. some times the spinning wheel just...

The past few times I've restarted my machine, each time I login, the first thing that pops up is a Crash Report for SecurityAgent. Not sure that this helps, but it looks significant :cool: Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000

My PMG5 never star at first time every day. i power up this incredibel machine every day at same time at 9 PM at work and it dont do that startup ring or noise and it just freez at the circule loading the osx and i have to prees the power button to restart the G5 once and once again to...

I booted up my G4 running 10.2.3 this evening to find that cursed prohibitory symbol glaring at me during the grey startup screen. I initially thought that this indicated a kernel panic, but I can't think of anything that I could have done to cause this. I booted from the system software disk to...

Hello, I have an iBook running 10.3.8. It will not startup off the hard drive, nor the cd (install disc (also 10.3) holding down c or holding down command)). I get a bit of cd activity and then the grey screen with the 'no' symbol and the 'rotating sun symbol.' If I startup with nothing...

I have tried everything, I disabled classic from starting in the system prefrences and made sure that no programs that need it will start. I even went so far as to delete a few programs that MIGHT need it, nothing works!! It always begins to load OS 9 everytime the desktop appears, and I have to...

Ok. I'm a Mac IT/Admin at a university. I have about 150 lab machines running OS 10.3.x that are bound to a Windows Active Directory server. 1. A good many of these machines are becoming "unbound" from the server and as a result students are unable to authenticate against Active Directory...

Hello, I've been noticing that my Mac is extremely slow booting lately. I have 800 G4 silver with 512mb ram. The computer takes literaly 5 minutes to bootup. I can reboot my Windows or linux computers 5-6 times in the amount of time that the this mac takes to boot up. I just upgraded to...

I recently had a kernel panic problem which forced me to go into verbose mode and set OS9 as the bootup OS. Since then, i haven't had any more kernel panics. It was a hassle to get the computer to load into verbose mode, and the kernel kept dumping each time I logged in. Is there a way...

Hi, I have a G4 Quicksilver and have been booting into OS 9 for about a year now as on of the programs I use only works with 9. Today, I got the latest upgrade for this program that works with OS X. So I Went into my Preferences and changed the start-up disk from the Mac OS 9 system folder to...

These problems arose after updating from 10.3.6 -> 10.3.7 For some reason CUPS printing services continually does not run at system startup. I've tried P.S.R. (Printing Services Repair - www.fixamac.net/software/psr/) CUPS repair utility for P.S.R. and it does start the service and clearly...

My mac takes about 5 minutes to startup! It gets past the splash screen and loads the wallpaper but then displays only the little spinning disk for 5 minutes. I've started up using BootCD and run Disk Utility which reports no problems. Any ideas how to chase this down much appreciated...

I a working on a iMac that was brought in, when it came in it would not detect any bootable OS on the Hard drive, so I put in my OS X BootCD and after it booted it read the hard drive fine. I opened Sys pref and went to start up disk, it found 10.0.3 and 9.2.2 as bootable OS's on the disk. I...

Hi guys, I keep getting this window pop up when my machine has booted up. "The selected communication device does not exist. Please verify your settings and try again." I tried installing a new modem driver the other day ands its been happening since then. How do I remove it/ stop it...

I am an absolute novice to unix and don't believe that my university unix back from the 80 is very fresh. I would need help to do the following: Automatically set a program to run a specific program under a specific user (probably not the one loggin in) at mac stratup time. Any help...

Well, I turned on an original bondi blue iMac today and was surprised to hear a loud screeching sound! It occured a few seconds after the startup chime and lasted 2 seconds. It could be described as a smoothly descending scale, sort of like somebody running their finger down a guitar string...

Hello all, Just the other week I purchased an iBook G4 (12"). During the last two startups before the large apple icon, a small gray box flashed in the middle of the screen with a globe of the world picture inside of it. Then after that flashed 3 or 4 times another picture, this time a...

A friend of mine moved out of state, and he's had trouble getting his computer started up. He created a user profile for his girlfriend, and since then he can't get his computer to start up. He says it makes it to the grey and white apple logo, but it goes no further. He says he can't startup...

My Sonnet Encore ST 1ghz upgrade should be arriving tomorrow, will my powermac startup quicker with a faster processor?

Hi, Everytime my Powerbook boots up, I am confronted with an error message of MSN Messenger stating that it can not log in. After a few seconds, when my WiFi network is initialized, I can press the Retry button and everything works OK. Is there a way to delay the launch of MSN Messenger...