When i turn it on it stays on the apple screen with the revolving circle. I've tries alt,ctrl, del....pulling out the battery, pressing the start button for ten seconds. When I pressed the start buton for 10 seconds it then went to a blank screen with the revolving circle. Still nothing....Please help!
My laptop is doing the same thing if you find out how to fix it PLEASE email me! [email protected]
1. try single-user mode (hold down Cmd-S during startup tone and sequence). this should take you to a command-line screen where you can run the suggested fsck command: /sbin/fsck -fy (at the command prompt).
2. go here to see complete startup procedure in situations like this: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417.
3. if that doesn't work, it sometimes helps to start the computer in target mode while attached to another computer via Firewire (hold down the "T" key while starting up). then you can navigate through your ~/Library/Preferences and find the most recently modified ones and pull those into a test folder on your hard drive somewhere (just create a new folder to hold them temporarily). then restart as normal. sometimes just yanking the most recently modified preference files (.plist files) works.
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MY macbook G4 keeps freezing at startup. All I see is the apple and that is it. I was able to use the installation disk to repair disk and I still have the same problem. HELP!!
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