At 12:28 PM -0700 9/4/2009, Jasiu wrote: >Ok I zapped the PRAM and held down the shift key while it rebooted. >Nothing seemed to be different though. The same display came up >withthe spinning circle. Do I hold down any other key besides the >shift one on startup?
No, just shift. >Will a different screen come up? Same spinning gear. >How long does the shift key need to be depressed? Release it when you see the spinning gear. Given the speed of your machine, it can take quite a while to dump the existing caches, sniff the hardware, then build the new caches. Another possibility is to boot holding down cmd-V, for verbose mode. That will give you the unix console display - plain text flying along your screen. Then you can see where its getting stuck. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
