<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Then try a reboot...<br><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.231373);">________</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.231373);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.231373); ">Sent from my iPhone...so replies might be short, and sometimes "autocorrected" into gibberish. </span></div></div><div><br>On Jun 24, 2009, at 11:25 PM, Neil <<a href="mailto:lists@mac.com">lists@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">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.</span>
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