At 1:39 AM -0500 2/1/06, Chris Riedl wrote:
Thanks for the tip.. I just redid my OS 9 drive with a Universal install, but the iMac still hangs showing the faces icon on top of the folder. I'm somewhat at a loss. Resetting the PRAM doesn't change anything. It definitely appears that something happened to the machine, but I don't understand because it only occurred after my friend was messing around with something in the OS X Preferences, and then when the machine went to reboot, it would always hang on the Apple screen with the thing spinning forever.
First off it's possible it had nothing to do with what your friend did but it was simply the process of rebooting which brought out a problem that may have been there from any point since your last reboot.
One issue that is fairly rare is the disk driver becoming corrupt. I have seen it a couple of times under OS 9 or earlier but not with X. In 9 and earlier you could boot from the installer CD and run Drive Setup then select "Update Driver" or such. I'm not certain this can be done in X though.
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