Powerbook keeps freezing on the blue "STARTING MAC OS X" screen
Had to reboot about 4 times today and finally I got stuck on the blue screen with the progress bar under the "starting mac os x" message about a quarter full. this is the screen that you get after the grey start-up screen with the apple logo. anyone have any suggestions or ideas? thanks!
Welcome to the Apple discussions.
First, if you have any hardware connected to yrou PB, unhook it.
I would want to insert the first OS X CD, which says 'AHT Version x.x' on it, and reboot holding the alt/option key down. Choose the Apple hardware test, click the arrow pointing to the right, and follow directions. Choose the extended test. Does it tell you anything?
Another option along the same lines .... insert the first OS X CD, and reboot holding the C key down. This will boot from the CD. The bring up the disk utility, and choose repair permissions, then repair disk. Does the repair disk tell you anything? Eject the CD and try rebooting normally.
And another option is to reboot holding the shift key down. This is a safe boot, and it does some disk maintenance and doesn't load the login items, amongst other things. If this works, try rebooting normally.
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