[X-Newbies] suddenly sick iMacG5

[Crandon David]

Seems like for years I always here about people with problems with  
their Macs waking from sleep...my feeling on this now is "why bother".

David


On May 28, 2006, at 6:33 PM, <jboman at gwtc.net> <jboman at gwtc.net> wrote:

> Hi
>
> enjoy reading this list.
>
> I have a problem with my iMacG5, about 2 years old.
>
> Suddenly if I leave my computer in sleep and I return after an hour  
> or so
> I can move my cursor and click on an item but nothing happends.  I  
> cant
> click on restart – so shut it off with the power button.  When I  
> try to boot
> back up I get a startup chime but it boots to a blank white screen,  
> which stays
> there forever.  I turn it off and back on and usually get the white  
> screen again.
> Sometimes I have to do this 4 or 5 times before it boots correctly  
> and works fine.
> I have 512meg of ram and have added no software between the time it  
> was running
> fine and the time this started.
>
> Any help/ideas? I dont know what to do.  I cannot reset the pram on  
> startups when the
> white screen appears.
>
> TIA
>
> jon
>
> Jon Boman
> Crazy Horse School
> Wanblee, SD
>
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