On Nov 16, 2012, at 1:05 PM, faithie999 wrote: > i have a mac mini G4 running 10.5.8. yesterday (i thought it was a fluke at > the time) and again just now, it locked up while playing streaming audio in > firefox 3.6.24. the mini was completely unresponsive, so i held the power > button until it shut down. then powered back on, got the startup chime, but > then a gray screen with no apple. i tried resetting PRAM, letting it cycle > thru three startup chimes, but same result--gray screen but no apple. > > then i decided to try booting into open firmware to see if the machine was > completely dead. this worked, and at the prompt i typed mac-boot and > immediately the apple, then gearwheel, appeared, and it rebooted fine. > > as i said above, this just happened again (altho i booted into open firmware > without resetting PRAM, so that troubleshooting step had no effect). > > i know this is an ancient version of firefox, and i am now using safari for > the streaming audio, but i'm curious why after a forced shutdown the mini > wouldn't restart normally, and why issuing the mac-boot command from open > firmware made a difference.
It may well be that the real problem is in why it had trouble booting and that the streaming lock up was caused by that (it MAY). For starters run Disk Utility / Disk Verify. Check the System Log, for the boot up process, when it locked up and for some time before that. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
