Gray square box

Question

Level 1

24 points

Gray square box

My g5 froze the other day and the only way to power it down was to pull the plug. holding in the power button didn't work. anyway, now when i boot up, i get the apple logo for about 1/2 second then a gray square box. the computer boots to the desktop fine and i am able to use all apps. does anyone know what this gray box is? i have posted an example here: www.suerothberg.com/IMG_3419.JPG
does anyone know what this is?

G5 quad core 4gb 160 boot 500 internal, GeForce 7800GT, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Oct 14, 2007 4:08 PM

Reply

Answer 1

Oct 14, 2007 5:22 PM in response to filmmakersue

I had something similar to that on my G4. I rebooted in safe mode and ran disk utility first aid but I cannot remember what solved it as I ran Tech Tool and Disk Warrior. At first I freaked out but just started using these tools. I think something got buggered up. I think my G4 locked up and I had to do a hard reboot. Yes it comes up but then you can run everything thats why I thought it was a minor and ran those utilities.

See if that helps and let us know.

Ciao,
Lou Cioccio

Reply

Answer 2

filmmakersue Author

Level 1

24 points

Oct 14, 2007 6:41 PM in response to Louis Cioccio2

I ran the disk utility on my G5 and it did have an error message saying something like volume header needs minor repair. ...although the area you would click to repair was grayed out.

Reply

Answer 3

Niel

Community+ 2026

Level 10

743,477 points

Oct 14, 2007 7:05 PM in response to filmmakersue

Click here and follow the instructions. The Disk Utility will not repair the active Mac OS X startup disk.

(24980)

Reply