System x.5.8 issues.

2011-10-20 Thread jbequette
About 2-3 weeks ago, my DP 1.8 G5 ( June 04) had a bit of meltdown. Did not start in safe mode, was showing what seemed to be Disk errors. So after trying several courses of action suggested by the list, (Thank you Bruce!) I went and picked up a new hard drive, and new pram battery, installed

Insane Apple mail problem

2011-10-10 Thread jbequette
OK, had a system crash, archived and installed back to Sys 10.5.8 with Apple mail 3.6 and now cannot communicate with my to year old server mail system. Have called the provider with 2 different answers. I understand (I hope) that each change in the server list requires a restart, but cannot

Re: Mac frozen in startup

2011-09-26 Thread jbequette
On Sep 26, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Jeff Bequette wrote: Tried to do a routine restart (for the Airport network) and my G5, dp1.8ghz has frozen. I get a a good startup bong, then screen goes gray, and spinning thingee just spins. I was able to start off a system disc, but the start up folder is