05-09-2006, 10:23 PM
Hey, thanks a lot everybody! Wow, I thought Apple did away with the paperclip slot. I was able to get the CD out via holding down the mouse button. After that, it took about 5 minutes to fully boot up. This is I believe a ~1gz G4 PB on 10.3.9. Here's what I found:
1. I ran TT Deluxe (from AppleCare) via CD startup (which also took friggin' forever to boot) and it found nothing wrong, but skipped the "scanning for blocks" step.
2. Repaired Disk Permissions from both a fresh regular startup and from my PB 1.67 startup CD (again, took way too long to startup via holding down the C key)...each attempt resulted in a hang about halfway throught the operation and I had to force restart. Keep in mind she DID NOT KNOW about Repair Disk Permissions at all, so this is probably the first time it was ever run on this machine (at least manually)...so there could be God knows what else mucking things up.
3. After that, I emptied the CD tray and just let it startup by itself. A good 15 or 20 minutes into startup, it was hanging first on something like "Looking for Network Printers" and the blue progress bar; then hanging on "Looking for Printers" and blue progress bar. It didn't mention these warnings at all on the previous two startup attempts, one of which was successful as far as finally getting to the Finder screen.
My friend left at that point -- for the Genius Bar.
I told her I thought maybe there was a print job that was hung up in her queue and needed to be deleted, plus some corruption somewhere. But we had a hard time even getting to the Finder screen, so no dice trying to access Print Utility.
If anybody has any other ideas, I'm all ears. Thanks again...
1. I ran TT Deluxe (from AppleCare) via CD startup (which also took friggin' forever to boot) and it found nothing wrong, but skipped the "scanning for blocks" step.
2. Repaired Disk Permissions from both a fresh regular startup and from my PB 1.67 startup CD (again, took way too long to startup via holding down the C key)...each attempt resulted in a hang about halfway throught the operation and I had to force restart. Keep in mind she DID NOT KNOW about Repair Disk Permissions at all, so this is probably the first time it was ever run on this machine (at least manually)...so there could be God knows what else mucking things up.
3. After that, I emptied the CD tray and just let it startup by itself. A good 15 or 20 minutes into startup, it was hanging first on something like "Looking for Network Printers" and the blue progress bar; then hanging on "Looking for Printers" and blue progress bar. It didn't mention these warnings at all on the previous two startup attempts, one of which was successful as far as finally getting to the Finder screen.
My friend left at that point -- for the Genius Bar.
I told her I thought maybe there was a print job that was hung up in her queue and needed to be deleted, plus some corruption somewhere. But we had a hard time even getting to the Finder screen, so no dice trying to access Print Utility.
If anybody has any other ideas, I'm all ears. Thanks again...