Power Mac G5 1.8 Wont start I NEED HELP

[Shark718]

Hello ALL

I hope some one can help me really really bad. I have a Power Mac G5 1.8 Tower. I get it when they first came out in 2003. Now, This morning I went to log in and the cursor just spins. The system comes on like regular, it shows me the log on screen, the back ground and everything but when I put in my password nothing happens. The pointing cursor just spins and it does not leave this screen. I don't think it is a Hard Drive problem because then I would not even be able to get to this screen, I been trying this for hours now. I even tried to do the Hard Ware test but the CD tray wont come out. SO PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME. I'M FREAKING OUT OVER HERE


THANKS

 

[velocityg4]

Hello ALL

I hope some one can help me really really bad. I have a Power Mac G5 1.8 Tower. I get it when they first came out in 2003. Now, This morning I went to log in and the cursor just spins. The system comes on like regular, it shows me the log on screen, the back ground and everything but when I put in my password nothing happens. The pointing cursor just spins and it does not leave this screen. I don't think it is a Hard Drive problem because then I would not even be able to get to this screen, I been trying this for hours now. I even tried to do the Hard Ware test but the CD tray wont come out. SO PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME. I'M FREAKING OUT OVER HERE


THANKS

You can try holding cmd+opt+O+F to boot into open firmware.
Then type "eject cd" without quotes to open the drive tray. From there you can boot holding the "C" key to run the hardware test CD and boot off the install disc to run Disk Utility.

 

[icafelawrence]

you might also try resetting the PRam. Hold down Command-Option-P-R on start up, wait for the second boot chime, then release.