Did you do a full power off and leave it off for a minute or so? Shirley On Sep 26, 2005, at 5:42 PM, Ray Statham wrote: > There seems to be a law that when you're in the middle of an important > project things go wrong. > > I just installed the software updates for iTunes and Security. After I > clicked 'restart' the grey screen with the Apple logo appeared but it > won't > go past that to the login window. I've rebooted with scanner, printer > etc. > unplugged but I can't get past the grey screen. I ran fsck -y and fsck > -f > commands from the Unix screen and it says the hard drive appears to be > ok. I > can't reboot from the Tiger discs because the cd player won't open. Can > anyone help? I'm desperate; all the dealers and service people are > closed > for the night. I don't know if there are any issues with the Security > update > or not, but something happened immediately after the install. > > I'm running a 1 gig G4 tower with OS X 3.9 > > Thanks for any help. > > Ray > > _______________________________________________ > MacDV mailing list > MacDV at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >