Blue screen (of death?)

2011-08-25 Thread Iamanamma
I've got a 20 iMac G5 2Ghz that is behaving oddly. When you turn it on, it starts up, chime and all, finds the system folder, and proceeds to the gray Apple screen where the start-up animation spins for a few seconds like normal, then the screen turns blue and the finder refuses to load. The

Re: Blue screen (of death?)

2011-08-25 Thread Jim Scott
On Aug 25, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Iamanamma wrote: I've got a 20 iMac G5 2Ghz that is behaving oddly. When you turn it on, it starts up, chime and all, finds the system folder, and proceeds to the gray Apple screen where the start-up animation spins for a few seconds like normal, then the

Re: Blue screen (of death?)

2011-08-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 25, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Iamanamma wrote: Any ideas? Use Cmd-v keys at startup to get the verbose dialog to 'see' what the delay is. You can Safe Boot by holding the Shift key which will trash the System boot caches and get you a 'clean' restart, which can often fix a freeze or