Sounds like the boot drive is failing. Must be about 5 years old by now. Have you run fsck or Disk Warrior on it? I'd get a new drive asap.
On Mar 2, 2010, at 5:16 AM, Tulse X. Luper wrote: > Greetings, group. I have a dual PowerPC G5 running OSX 10.4.4 (yeah a little > out of date). Recently, it's been having trouble booting... seems to occur > right before USB initiation. I hear the disk cycling over the same spot for > a while. If it does come up, the USB is hosed. Hitting the switch cures the > problem. But the number of failed boots is *slowly* increasing, and now > happens maybe once a month. (I only keep the PPC on when I use it, once or > twice a day.) Any ideas what is deteriorating? Any easy fix? Thanks! > > [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------ > Mmmmm... Mort Subite! > ------------------------------------- Tulse Luper: 92 fierce firebirds in VUE. > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
