Hi Kris; Since you are getting so much help ;-) Can you spot anything using a 'verbose' startup?
Chuck D. On Dec 15, 2008, at 11:57 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: > > Something to report: > > While the large 377 MB update worked fine on my PPC G5 PowerMac, the > two Intel MacBook Pros I updated with the 190 MB version faired worse. > One failed to reboot, stuck on the spinning thing, and required a > little maintenance before successfully rebooting to seeming > improvement on the Airport connection, which was sorely needed and > expected. > > The 2nd MacBook Pro took the update normally, but when it rebooted I > saw an icon at reboot I've never seen before. It faded away after > several seconds and the Desktop presented itself normally then. Since > this isn't my computer, I'm uncertain if this icon was part of the > System software or some 3rd-party application? I rebooted several more > times, and the icon presented itself each time. I looked in the > startup items and Activity monitor and saw nothing "extra" running. > > The unknown icon was a little larger than one inch in the center of > the LCD near the end of the boot just after the grey screen ends at > the earliest beginning of the almost instant blue screen to Desktop > transition. It was a icon of a "rope" in the shape of the Apple > Command 4-way cloverleaf symbol. The rope formed the command > cloverleaf, but where it came back to itself in the upper right > quadrant instead of connecting seamlessly to itself, it was tied in a > square knot with loose ends showing on the exterior of the cloverleaf > icon, seeming to indicated "something twisted and tied up"? Anyone > seen this icon at startup before or know what it is? > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
