Safe Boot and Startup Problems
Hello,
My PowerMac G5 has been having serious startup problems for months. It can take hours of trying to finally get it to boot up. It can freeze at various points throughout the boot up. Sometimes the screen is filled with a load of text which sometimes ends with the line, "we are hanging here..." Other times it freezes and displays the message that the computer needs to be restarted in various languages against a black screen. Sometimes it hangs with all the fans on full blast!
I've tried all the usual things like resetting PRAM, the power management switch, checking the drive in disk utilities etc... I've checked the RAM with Rember and re-seated them. Everything seems to pass and be okay.
Yesterday I read about booting in safe mode so I tried that last night and it started it first time, although it took ages!!
Does this provide any clues? I mean, can this rule out any hardware issues?
The model I have is:
PowerMac G5 with a PowerPC 2GHz processor from late 2005. Model: PowerMac7,3
If anyone has any ideas or could give any advice I would be very grateful.
Kind Regards
David