Powerbook G4 Won't completely Boot Up!

[Rick Shepherd]

Hi,

Tonight, I opened up Garageband, went into preferences to configure the audio for my peripheral audio device, and the computer and curser locked up, so I had to shut it down by pressing the power button for 4 seconds. I restarted the G4 and it would only boot up to a blue screen with the pointer curser, but would not finish loading anything on the desktop, no icons, no menu, nothing. I tried restarting repeatedly this way, but got the same result each time. Any thoughts on what could be wrong? Any way to correct this problem?

 

[MongoTheGeek]

Hi,

Tonight, I opened up Garageband, went into preferences to configure the audio for my peripheral audio device, and the computer and curser locked up, so I had to shut it down by pressing the power button for 4 seconds. I restarted the G4 and it would only boot up to a blue screen with the pointer curser, but would not finish loading anything on the desktop, no icons, no menu, nothing. I tried restarting repeatedly this way, but got the same result each time. Any thoughts on what could be wrong? Any way to correct this problem?

Flash the pram. Reboot it. Hold down apple-option-p-r. It will beep and restart.

If that doesn't work try booting from a recovery cd. Getting it fully booted may be sufficient

 

[Rick Shepherd]

Ok, I will try that! How do I reboot from a recovery CD?

 

[Shadow]

Put the CD in and hold C while booting.

 

[mad jew]

While you're booted from the CD, head to Disk Utility (in the Installer menu I believe) and Repair Disk. It can't hurt and it might help.

 

[Shadow]

While you're booted from the CD, head to Disk Utility (in the Installer menu I believe) and Repair Disk. It can't hurt and it might help.

WRONG! Its in the Utilites menu.

 

[mad jew]

Well, there you go. Of course, I always just fsck my machines instead. Much naughtier.