I periodically have this problem (same configuration)... end up pushing the big round button button on the front of the box for as long as it takes to turn the thing off (6 seconds?).
I have never bothered to really get to the bottom of it, but I think that it may be due to networking activity... I have another Mac networked via a cross-over cable, and I think that everything shuts down fine if either the networked computer is still on, or the network was never activated. Doesn't like trying to terminate network activity to a computer that has vanished. (Similarly, if the networked computer is turned off, the G4 will wait until the network times-out before completing startup, a wait of long enough that you think you've got a terminal crash-on-startup type situation.) This might help, and would be interested in any comments anyway. Giles Stokoe =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
