[X4U] Hard Freeze Turned Login Screen Pinstripped

[Dave Bonhoff]

Hold down option when booting (I hold it down before pressing the  
power button) and you should be able to get the boot disk chooser  
screen.

You could also try zapping the PRAM, resetting CUDA, etc.

Dave

On 25-Jun-09, at 00:25, Neil wrote:

> I had a hard freeze on Sunday on my G5/2x2 PowerMac running 10.5.6.   
> I could move the mouse, but nothing else on the system responded.   
> The dock wouldn't even unhide.  I couldn't force quit anything.  So,  
> I shut down the system using the button on the Mac.  When I tried to  
> start the Mac, I got to the login screen, but it had a pinstripe and  
> then froze on the screen with the Apple, but no login screen.  I  
> tried booting with the shift key.  Same.  Then, I tried booting from  
> the internal back-up drive and a got a pinstriped screen with a  
> question marked folder, then the same freeze.  The same happened  
> when I attached a firewire boot drive and tried to boot holding cmd- 
> opt-shift-del.  Same result.  Any ideas?  Thanks.

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