My Desktop Is Frozen When I Startup...Help!
Everything looks okay on the desktop when it starts up, and I can move the mouse, but I cant do anything besides that. Sometimes when I restart it I cant even log in, it freezes at that point. Sometimes the dock is there, sometimes its not, but it will not open anything. If I try to open finder or a program on the dock it will freeze in its animated state, but I can move the mouse still. Sometimes I can do small things like turn the sound off or down through the keyboard, but then it freezes after that and I cant turn the sound back up or on. That's pretty much all it will let me do.
This started happening when I was in the middle of installing the Adobe Creative Suite 2; it froze and I had to restart it. I tried all the trouble shooting tips (holding down option when starting, repairing the harddrive through the disk utility, etc..). short of resetting it to the factory settings. Is there anything else I can do to fix it without losing all my stuff?
Also: when I repaired the harddrive it said it needed to be repaired, but it didnt make any difference afterwards...
I'm not a really technical person, so should I just find / pay someone to help me? Or is this simple enough for me to fix this myself?
Thanks!
Same problem. In my case OSX fails to load and I'm left with a blue screen. Have also tried all of the tips to start up from the vaious volumes, have checked and repaired the HD through disk utility (which told me nothing was wrong).
Only solution is to re-load from the two disks. You can't mount OSX on the HD (yellow warning) so you follow the option to re-load it while preserving the applications in a separate folder.
This worked yesterday but I had a re-freeze while trying to load Norton today from my disk not intended for MBP.
The huge problem is that everytime I do this I lose valuabe HD space. The essence of the problem is why doesn't OSX start up properly when all disk utility tests indicate the HD volumes are fine? Any other suggestions before I call Apple Care?
G5 Quad Desktop Mac OS X (10.4.5)
G5 Quad Desktop Mac OS X (10.4.5)
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