OS 10.4 - Boot up skips loading screen

dranklinz · dranklinz #1 (**permalink**)

08-14-2008, 03:07 PM

so, i NEVER shut down my computer, it's forever on sleep mode. i finally had to turn it off to move it into a new apartment. long story short, the computer turns on fine, i get the desktop and hard drive icons. but the keyboard and cursor wont show. even more interesting is that, on boot up, i get no happy face mac os icon and loading bar, just a momentary blue screen and str8 to the desktop, no cursor or keyboard action. any suggestions?

I'm working with a Graphite G4 with OSX 10.4 Tiger.

louishen · louishen #2 (**permalink**)

08-14-2008, 03:19 PM

put the keyboard usb cable in a different slot

do you get a light on the caps key?

also consider booting from the tiger CD and run disk utility from the menu (assuming the mouse starts working when you boot from the deisk)

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dranklinz #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Aug 14, 2008 Posts: 1	08-14-2008, 03:07 PM so, i NEVER shut down my computer, it's forever on sleep mode. i finally had to turn it off to move it into a new apartment. long story short, the computer turns on fine, i get the desktop and hard drive icons. but the keyboard and cursor wont show. even more interesting is that, on boot up, i get no happy face mac os icon and loading bar, just a momentary blue screen and str8 to the desktop, no cursor or keyboard action. any suggestions? I'm working with a Graphite G4 with OSX 10.4 Tiger.
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louishen #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 22, 2007 Location: London Posts: 8,648 Mac Specs: Mac Mini Core i7 2012 \| White 2009 MacBook 2 Ghz \| 733 Mhz G4 Quicksilver	08-14-2008, 03:19 PM put the keyboard usb cable in a different slot do you get a light on the caps key? also consider booting from the tiger CD and run disk utility from the menu (assuming the mouse starts working when you boot from the deisk)
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