Mac G5 wont startup, freezes at startup and stays at a loading grey apple screen. Help Please!
Mac G5 wont startup, freezes at startup and stays at a loading grey apple screen. Help Please!
Mac G5 wont startup, freezes at startup and stays at a loading grey apple screen. Help Please!
Gulp, but some things to try...
What shows if you hold alt key at setup, & how long will it sit on that screen?
Does it boot to Single User Mode, CMD+s keys at bootup, if so try...
/sbin/fsck -fy
Repeat until it shows no errors fixed.
(Space between fsck AND -fy important).
http://www.westwind.com/reference/os-x/commandline/single-user.html
Gulp, but some things to try...
What shows if you hold alt key at setup, & how long will it sit on that screen?
Does it boot to Single User Mode, CMD+s keys at bootup, if so try...
/sbin/fsck -fy
Repeat until it shows no errors fixed.
(Space between fsck AND -fy important).
http://www.westwind.com/reference/os-x/commandline/single-user.html
Will it delete any data? Just curious. 🙂
Not impossible, but very unlikely, in fact the opposite is much more likely… preventing the loss of data. 🙂
Doing it right now, keeps saying "The volume Little Gator appears to be ok."
To exit single-user mode type
reboot or macboot
hit enter & see if t boots up.
OK, not likely the Hard drive then.
How many drives in it, what all is connected by USB & Firewire?
What happens if you hold shift key at bootup?
It did not start up, have 2 USB and 1 firewire and only using one USB for keyboard and mouse is connected to mouse and nothing happens when I hold down shift
Disconnect all but the mouse & KB & try it.
Was it the restart from Single User Mode you tried, or both that & shift later?
I tried the restart from single user mode and that didnt work so I turned it off and held shift and turned it on and nothing happened
I'm not sure if restart might be for IntelMacs only, try macboot or mac-boot from SU mode.
I ment to say that when I typed reboot it restared mac and did the same as if I were normally turning the mac on.
Try booting in Verbose mode & see if you can read the last few lines it prints...
CMD+ v keys
It keeps saying Login Window Application Started and then says Could not establish the default connection to WindowServer
I have another powermac g5 but the problem for it is completely different, I tried everything but ot has a grey screen and a folder with a ? And the Finder app or the app with 2 faces how could I fix that one?
Try Verbose mode on that one.
I tried everything on it. Even that mode it doesn't work
Mac G5 wont startup, freezes at startup and stays at a loading grey apple screen. Help Please!