Thanks Kris. There is no power button on this keyboard, but one of the monitors, a Cinema Display, has a button on it that I think will start up and shut down the Mac, so I'll try that next time. Or I'll push once on the tower's button, then Return, to see if that works.
Well, I don't know how to read the stuff in the Console, it's all greek to me. I looked at it, though, and the only suspicious thing (to me) might be "-Computer diskarbitrationd[40]: SystemUIServer [224]: 55299 not responding." and farther down: "2008-09-08 22:33:21.221 Mail[314] 0x592deb0: observer lock is held, postponing release. break at /SourceCache/Message/Message-753.1/Utilities.subproj/ FoundationAdditions.m:649 to debug" I don't know what "postpoing release" means, but startup sure was postponed when the screens stayed dark. Both times, when the screens finally did light up, that's when the startup process began:the apple symbol, OS-X icon, progress bar, and finally the desktop. In other words, the operating system did not start up while the screens were dark, and then light up to show me the desktop. Apparently nothing was happening while the screens were dark, system-wise. My copy of Onyx says it won't work with 10.4, but I ran all the tasks MacJanitor could do. I'm still not going to shut this Mac down until I think it has some chance of starting up normally again. So far I have no idea what else I could do to give it a better chance to. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
