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Old 15-04-2008, 08:35 AM
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Hey all,

My MB 2.0 is giving me some dramas. I rarely restart it, but lately it's been taking 5-10 mins of sitting on an empty desktop with just the spotlight icon in the top right (no bar going all the way along). Now it's been completely hanging there. I resetted P-RAM, and just now threw the OSX Tiger disc in to try and load up some utilities, but it ignores it being in there... any ideas?
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Old 15-04-2008, 08:41 AM
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Probably something third party you've installed. Boot holding down the shift key and only Apple software will load up. Does that help?
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Old 15-04-2008, 08:45 AM
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When you say it ignores the disc, do you mean even when starting from it?
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Old 15-04-2008, 08:47 AM
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Zing! Cheers Currawong, booted safely, now backing up emails like a madman and starting afresh...

@WB - That's it, I was under the impression that when the disc was in at startup that an admin screen came up.
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Old 15-04-2008, 08:49 AM
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here's a good list of shortcuts in the event of crashes etc: Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts
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Old 15-04-2008, 09:24 AM
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Great, cheers Spargo
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Old 15-04-2008, 09:32 AM
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I so expected the first line to say:

Crouching Leopard!!


Sorry, couldn't resist.
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