05-10-2006, 12:40 AM
The stall while accessing the network and network printers is typical of a Mac that was configured to connect to a broadband network and is no longer connected to that network. It's looking for the network on startup and until it times out, you'll end up staring at a gray screen and a progress bar or circular-lines symbol.
Usually, it will finish starting up after a few minutes (up to 20 minutes, depending on the system).
At that point, to prevent the problem from recurring, you'd just have to use the Network preference panel to create a new Location-preset with just the modem checked off in the Network Port Configurations screen and switch to that location. So long as it's no longer configured to look for a network connection, it will no longer stall during startup.
Creating a new Location setting allows your friend to connect via broadband again by just choosing the Broadband location from the Locations menu under the Apple menu and when she's not connecting via broadband, she can select the modem Location.
If anything were hung up in the print queue (which I doubt), it wouldn't be likely to cause a problem until you tried to print another job. For future reference, Print Center Repair is a useful utility for deleting stuck jobs, resetting pref's and emptying caches.
http://www.fixamac.net/software/pcr3/index.php
...And when a Mac has trouble starting up, try starting in Safe mode by holding down the Shift key on startup. It disables a lot of stuff that could cause problems (not unlike holding down the Shift key while booting in OS 9). It takes longer to boot, but that's because it performs several maintenance and repair routines automatically. Once you've gotten tot he Finder in Safe Mode, you can run the Disk Utility to verify the disk and repair permissions. As a general rule, it's better to repair permissions while booted from the volume that you are repairing.
Usually, it will finish starting up after a few minutes (up to 20 minutes, depending on the system).
At that point, to prevent the problem from recurring, you'd just have to use the Network preference panel to create a new Location-preset with just the modem checked off in the Network Port Configurations screen and switch to that location. So long as it's no longer configured to look for a network connection, it will no longer stall during startup.
Creating a new Location setting allows your friend to connect via broadband again by just choosing the Broadband location from the Locations menu under the Apple menu and when she's not connecting via broadband, she can select the modem Location.
If anything were hung up in the print queue (which I doubt), it wouldn't be likely to cause a problem until you tried to print another job. For future reference, Print Center Repair is a useful utility for deleting stuck jobs, resetting pref's and emptying caches.
http://www.fixamac.net/software/pcr3/index.php
...And when a Mac has trouble starting up, try starting in Safe mode by holding down the Shift key on startup. It disables a lot of stuff that could cause problems (not unlike holding down the Shift key while booting in OS 9). It takes longer to boot, but that's because it performs several maintenance and repair routines automatically. Once you've gotten tot he Finder in Safe Mode, you can run the Disk Utility to verify the disk and repair permissions. As a general rule, it's better to repair permissions while booted from the volume that you are repairing.