HELP! Power Mac G5 won't load past grey screen.
Hi all,
I have a 2004/5 Power Mac G5 which i use primarily as storage for my music and movies as i have a Macbook Pro for my music production/design software. I was watching a movie using VLC a couple of days ago and as i minimised from full screen to window view it froze. I left it for about 10 minutes to let it calm down and work out what it was doing but to no avail. I switched it off by depressing the power button for a few seconds and left it to cool for a further 10 or so minutes. When i went to turn it on again, the normal mac start up sound plays and it goes to the grey loading screen where it then stays with the loading wheel.
I have a 1Tb HDD in the one bay for my music and films, and a 160gb one in the other that i use to run my OS and startup from.
I have read through a few other threads on the same subject and have tried the following to see if it can be fixed:
1. I reset the power control switch on the motherboard - no luck.
2. I checked to see that the display card/ram cards/HDD were all seated properly - no luck
It is not the end of the world if it has just come to the end of its life as all of my important stuff is on my MacBook Pro and backed up. However, i would really appreciate it if i could have the several hundred films and thousands of songs that are stored away on my G5 accesible again.
Many thanks,
Sam.
PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.4.1), G5