Won't power on, just get spinning wheel

Help. I turned on my iPad this morning and only get a black screen with a spinning wheel. It won't turn off/on. What do I do to fix this?

Hold down on the sleep and power buttons at the same time for about 10 seconds or so until the Apple logo appears - ignore the red slider- let go of the buttons.

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jerseyjoey wrote:
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I was asked to migrate this to a new post:
My 10.4.7 update made my g5 dual 2.0 unhappy-spinning wheel and shut down syndrome.
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-Booted from disk,repaired permissions and volumes(it was OK anyway)
deep-cleaned cache using COCKTAIL
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-pulled the power cord(PMU reset)Why? Because the PMU always bricks this machine
-Zaped PRAM(why I dunno, it works sometimes...)
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-unplugged all peripherals
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