Unplug? Ye gods, no. If you're ever faced with this problem, hold the power button until the Mac shuts down. Then restart. If the Mac fails to boot, then you're onto step 2.
No, the problem isn't that I can't turn my computer off, it's that when I reboot, it just gets stuck on the loading screen.
When I boot in Safe Mode, all seems fine. But when booting in normal mode, it just gets to the stage with the Snow Leopard desktop background and the pinwheel of doom. Forever.
I've used Onyx to clean out my caches and repair my disk permissions, I've tried clearing the PRAM, I've tried booting from my install disk and running a disk repair, all to no avail.
Does this happen every time? If so, I'd say you're probably going to need a reinstall, since you've tried just about everything else. And no, not an Erase and Install. A standard one should be attempted first. Before that, I'd check your Login items in the Accounts preferences. What have you got listed there?
No, the problem isn't that I can't turn my computer off, it's that when I reboot, it just gets stuck on the loading screen.
When I boot in Safe Mode, all seems fine. But when booting in normal mode, it just gets to the stage with the Snow Leopard desktop background and the pinwheel of doom. Forever.
I've used Onyx to clean out my caches and repair my disk permissions, I've tried clearing the PRAM, I've tried booting from my install disk and running a disk repair, all to no avail.
Any ideas anybody? Thanks.
I read it like you booted once and let it sit there without killing the power.
My next suggestion would be to find a friend with Disk Warrior loaded on a USB drive with MacOS X on it (bootable) and give Disk Warrior a shot.
Normally I'd recommend DiskWarrior but not this time (unless you've got it around already), since the Mac does boot in Safe Mode. The problem is probably a bad kernel extension, since this is what's dumped when you boot in Safe Mode. Several problems with similar symptoms have been reported with Snow Leopard.
Normally I'd recommend DiskWarrior but not this time (unless you've got it around already), since the Mac does boot in Safe Mode. The problem is probably a bad kernel extension, since this is what's dumped when you boot in Safe Mode. Several problems with similar symptoms have been reported with Snow Leopard.
Load up OSX on a portable hdd, copy over your user folders, do a clean install on your machine, and then import the folders back in.
Like the doc said, if you have Disk Warrior, try it, if not, then I don't know what options you have left.
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The way to 64-bit was paved in 10.5. Try again.
Round of the applause for post of the week. So useful, I can't get over it!
Unplug it then turn it back on.
No, the problem isn't that I can't turn my computer off, it's that when I reboot, it just gets stuck on the loading screen.
When I boot in Safe Mode, all seems fine. But when booting in normal mode, it just gets to the stage with the Snow Leopard desktop background and the pinwheel of doom. Forever.
I've used Onyx to clean out my caches and repair my disk permissions, I've tried clearing the PRAM, I've tried booting from my install disk and running a disk repair, all to no avail.
Any ideas anybody? Thanks.
No, the problem isn't that I can't turn my computer off, it's that when I reboot, it just gets stuck on the loading screen.
When I boot in Safe Mode, all seems fine. But when booting in normal mode, it just gets to the stage with the Snow Leopard desktop background and the pinwheel of doom. Forever.
I've used Onyx to clean out my caches and repair my disk permissions, I've tried clearing the PRAM, I've tried booting from my install disk and running a disk repair, all to no avail.
Any ideas anybody? Thanks.
I read it like you booted once and let it sit there without killing the power.
My next suggestion would be to find a friend with Disk Warrior loaded on a USB drive with MacOS X on it (bootable) and give Disk Warrior a shot.
Normally I'd recommend DiskWarrior but not this time (unless you've got it around already), since the Mac does boot in Safe Mode. The problem is probably a bad kernel extension, since this is what's dumped when you boot in Safe Mode. Several problems with similar symptoms have been reported with Snow Leopard.
Load up OSX on a portable hdd, copy over your user folders, do a clean install on your machine, and then import the folders back in.
Like the doc said, if you have Disk Warrior, try it, if not, then I don't know what options you have left.
......In fact after a week I forced the system to run in 64 bit mode all the time......
how exactly did you do that? please tell me because I need do do that too.
thank you