[Ham-Mac] Need some OSX help!

[Richard Rucker]

On Jul 9, 2005, at 7:25 AM, Tim McLeod wrote:

> Sounds like a corrupt file system

or bad RAM

Dick


> This article may help you troubleshoot it
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
> Good Luck & 73
>
> Tim, VE3TZS
>
>
> on 7/8/05 8:51 PM, Scott Galbraith at scottg at n3ok.com wrote:
>
>
>> *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate 
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>>
>> I recently sent my daughter's titanium G4 in for repair of the  
>> display hinges
>> (after market company on the west coast with good recommendations.)
>>
>> After it was overnighted back early this week, it would start up  
>> okay then
>> started bogging down and lots of error messages were generated  
>> when she tried
>> to run programs. Then, suddenly around the middle of the week, it  
>> stopped
>> booting into the OS desktop and insists on booting to a black  
>> screen with a
>> CLI login prompt and she cannot log in as it will not accept her  
>> username,
>> etc.
>>
>> She's bringing it home this evening some time so I can look at it.  
>> Has been
>> years since I have used Unix (on a Sun) so I will be working to  
>> remember
>> things. I have TechTool 4 CD and am planning to see if I can get  
>> the computer
>> to start up off that.
>>
>> Anyway, wanted to check and see if anyone had encountered a  
>> similar problem
>> under OSX and maybe there is something "simple" that was reset or  
>> left
>> configured improperly by the repair company - or is there a key or  
>> button that
>> would produce this type of startup when held down (thinking  
>> somthing may be
>> stuck?)  Can any of you pros offer any starting suggestions for  
>> straightening
>> things out?
>>
>> Thanks, - Scott
>>
>
>
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