Re: Ibook G4 problems...

On 13 Nov, 19:15, Clark Martin <cmn...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1194963733.236030.301...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Karl Rhodes <googlegro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

I feel like a stranger in a strange land here, but a friend has asked
me to have a look at his G4 ibook as he is having problems booting it
up. When it is switched on, there is a chime followed by a grey screen
with an apple logo in the middle, then after a few seconds the
"loading" animation (small circle with 12 'sunburst' lines coming from
it that highlight on their way round) shows. after a couple of
minutes, there login screen is shown. When the username and password
are typed in, the system seems to load networing drivers etc and then
the desktop wallpaper is loaded with a couple of small icons in the
top right hand corner (Small quarter circle curve, a speaker, an
english flag, the battery and clock) but other than that... NOTHING!

The quarter circle curve is the Airport indicator, it shows connectivity
and signal strength. The flag is the keyboard menu.

Now as I said earlier, I feel like a stranger in a strange land as I
work with pc's all the time, so I'm not sure if this is "normal", but
I thought Macs had a row of icons along the bottom? these dont appear
to be loading. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to fix this?
My friend told me he had tried to install some printer drivers, but
was very vague.

As you can tell I dont know a great deal about macs so ANY help would
be appreciated.

Try the menus (all of them), are they active?

Is there another account on the computer, if so try logging in on that.
It will narrow down whether the problem is with the account or
generalized.

Sometimes the system will get screwy and stall for some time at this
stage. It will usually come out of it on it's own, eventually. If it
does, then use System Preferences / Accounts and create a new,
administrative account. Then log into that account and see if it has
the same problem.

--
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting

"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"

I'm going to have a word with the guy who owns it to see if there are
any other accounts. But if he tells me no, what then?

Also when I hover over the icons at the top, the icon changes to a
rainbow coloured wheel which I guess means it's (the OS) is busy.
However sometimes it doesnt do anything if I click the mouse over them
they highlight blue but nothing happens.

You mentioned menus... there's nothing. even when I click on the
icons, there are no menu's anywhere at all...

Thanks again
Karl

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