spinning ball

[jimking]

My wife just called from home and said our silver dual G4 will not boot. The big apple appears and the spinning ball just keeps spinning. I told her to try different key combos when it's booting up such as hold the shift key down or apple option or apple shift or shift option apple. She said it doesn't work. Anyone got any ideas before I go home and do the samething and it works! 

[David]

I would start off with holding down the shift key and booting into safe mode.

then toss your finder.plist (user/home/lib/prefs/) and reboot to see if that doesn't fix "er up.



ps. You may need to hold the shift key down for a few minutes, just wait, it will happen

[rrobinson]

Corrupt font cache, perhaps?

[jimking]

Corrupt font cache, perhaps?

Thanks, David I'll keep you posted and I'm sure it'll work. As far as fonts, I don't have many at all openned on the home machine, I keep my eye on'em, thanks.

[Joe]

Panther or Tiger. If it's Tiger it could be the Spotlight plist. It causes that exact thing to happen when it gets corrupted. Just had it happen about a week and a half ago.

[jimking]

Fixed it. As it turns out the shift key didn't do it, it was the apple option keys. Panther 10.3.9

[David]

glad you got it fixed,

you can relax now and have a good holiday!


cheers,
David