[X4U] Hard Freeze Turned Login Screen Pinstripped

[Michael Elliott]

The usual Mac voodoo. Unplug the machine for a few hours. Reset the  
PRAM. Remove all third party stuff like extra RAM, video card, IDE  
cards.

Then try a reboot...

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Sent from my iPhone...so replies might be short, and sometimes  
"autocorrected" into gibberish.

On Jun 24, 2009, at 11:25 PM, Neil <lists at mac.com> 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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