Can not get pass opening screen, help please!!

First off, when I tried to turn of my emac earlier this evening it took a few tries. Then when I went to turn it back on, it got to the opening white screen, with the grey apple in the middle but would not go any further. I tried a few more times, with the same results, white screen, grey apple, no farther.
Any help will be much appreciated, I thank you in advance!!

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Since the Safe Mode disc repair is faceless, you don't get any immediate feedback as to any errors being turned up. It's better to follow cosmichobo's advice and use the OS X Install disc to run Disk Utility from the Installer menu; that will let you see what's going on. Note that if any errors are reported repaired by Disk Utility/Repair Disk, you should immediately run it again --- it's possible for one disc error to mask others.
Another option would be to boot the Mac into single user mode and use the Unix file system check utility fsck (if you're not adverse to using the Unix command line prompt). Refer to Using Disk Utility and fsck for detailed instructions.

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"arcfoto2" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:[email protected]...
> Thanks Martin...! That was certainly very gentlemanly of
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> how
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doubt you started
> the
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>
> I felt I really wanted to try going with PNG because in
last years I'd
> been
> having lots of problems with JPGs - artifacts, sure...
but also color
> drift and
> averaging - causing noticeable differences between text
block backgrounds
> and
> the bg itself, etc... but I figured my site was very
minimal, very
> sparse... so
> PNGs were no HUGE sin, considering many people seem to
have loads of SWFs
> all
> over theirs... but that's here nor there...
>
> Thanks.
>
> This is the CSS code I ended up with:
>
> .style1 {
> font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
> font-weight: bold;
> color: #D1CED0;
> border-top: 0;
> border-left: 0;
> border: 0;
> }
> body {
> background-color: #666666;
> border-left: 0;
> border: 0;
> border-top: 0;
> border-top-style: outset;
> margin-left: 0px;
> margin-top: 0px;
> }
>
> Suppose I did it twice, huh? I'm assuming the 'body' one
can come out.
>
>
> ALSO - I'm sure I should really post a separate topic
for this - but maybe
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post it here... :
>
> Not sure if you noticed my redundant links. I have a set
of nav links for
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>
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>
> thanks again,
> Jonathan
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