Do you have a good utility such as DiskWarrior? If so, have you run it? Have you done any basic maintenance/cleanup things like empty all caches with a program like Cocktail? It also would not hurt to zap the PRAM. - ---- QuicKeys is my new favorite way to control my Mac! <http://www.webcontactpro.net/app/aftrack.asp?afid=5113> ---------------- Greg Martinez gregmartinez at mac.com iMac 17" G4, 1GHz, OS 10.3.5, 768 MB RAM. iBook 12" G4, 800MHz, OS 10.3.5, 640 MB RAM. ----------------- On Oct 24, 2004, at 11:59 AM, Robert Crawford wrote: > Yesterday I had a system crash. I was reading mail (II had obviously > done a lot of stuff since the last restart) and I got the beach ball > of death. After about an hour I force shut down the g3 600 iBook. > Then, It would not restart. the screen stayed blank. After about four > tries of that it came up with a text message to shutdown or boot mac > os. But, it would not boot mac OS. When I tried that the screen just > went blank. Then I tried the Hardware Diag disk, it said everything > was fine. I tried to reinstall the OS but it kept hanging on the java > install. Then I did the replace OS and it did it. > Then I moved the user library, for me, from the "previous installs" > folder to the current side of the system (saving old installs is a > nice feature). The only error I have gotten so far is "Transport > monitor can not start, there is a error in the library." In truth, > there are probably a lot of errors in the library; it did not move > cleanly. > Any Idea what Transport Monitor does, and should I care about it? > > _______________________________________________ > iBook mailing list > iBook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook