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3 Replies Last post: Feb 11, 2005 5:40 AM by Grant_G  
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Visions_of_them
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Feb 6, 2005 4:28 PM

Having some serious problems here

o.k here's the list of whats going on with my beloved mac
screen saver come on it takes upto 2minutes 11 seconds for the desktop to become active again

Applications will not quit even through force quite, they stop responding

try'd to get some stuff from software update and the authentication box's little waiting wheel is pulsing as it spins
Tryed relaunching the finder but will not restart

I have done a reinstall keeping network prefrences, but to no avail, any one got any idea's greatly appriciated, I have run cocktail and tryed to run diskwarrior but would not start from the CD

Cheers
Ru
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Grant_G
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1. Feb 7, 2005 5:39 AM in response to: Visions_of_them
Re: Having some serious problems here
Will it start up from any other CD, such as the System Restore one? It just doesn't make any sense that it won't start up from the DiskWarrior CD, unless you're not giving it ample time (it takes several minutes). If there's an OS X installed on the external hard drive in your sig, you could try installing DiskWarrior there, then using it as a startup device to run DW on your main drive.

Just another thought: Are you having your system sleep in addition to running a screen saver? The two might be conflicting.

G
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Visions_of_them
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2. Feb 11, 2005 4:42 AM in response to: Grant_G
Re: Having some serious problems here
Hi grant
no it will not start from the CD at all, I press option on start up so I get the choice of start up disks select DW and it click for it to start and spins a little bit then goes and starts off the hard drive, very confusing.
Cheers
Ru
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Grant_G
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3. Feb 11, 2005 5:40 AM in response to: Visions_of_them
Re: Having some serious problems here
All right. Have you tried starting up from DiskWarrior by holding down the letter 'c' key? That's supposed to force your Mac to load whatever CD or DVD is in the tray, if it's bootable. DW is bootable.

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