Hi Laura, I am still on an enforced medical break from WAMUG.
I presume you have Held down the power button for 5-10 seconds to putdown the MB. After doing the force shutdown you need to Repair the HardDrive. What version of the OS X is installed? Insert the OS X Install disc of the version of the OS X which is installed, start up from the Install disc by holding down the c key during startup, and launch Disk Utility to repair the hard drive. Then start up normally and use Disk Utility on the hard drive to repair permissions. You should do this every time you do an emergency shutdown in case the hard shutdown caused hard drive corruption. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 23/10/2010, at 2:27 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Good afternoon all > > I'm hoping someone can help. My MacBook screen has frozen and does not > respond to anything I try and do. > > I've shut down and started up again several times to no avail. Initially > everything seems OK, normal screen, insert password, > then the iCal window appears (set up to appear at log in). I had thought > booting from the external drive might work but > because the iCal window fills the screen I can't see the exterior drive icon > (assuming it is there somewhere) > > I know there is some way of starting up in safe mode but not sure how to do > that or even if that might work. > > Fortunately I have a MacMini as part of my EyeTV set up so that's what I am > using to post this call for help. Never thought I > would need to use it for this purpose. I don't have Mail set up on the Mini > so am using webmail. > > Any advice would be much appreciated. > > Regards > > Laura > > MacBook SL (sorry can't give more specs) > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
