02-26-2004, 03:22 PM

at my school this year they are starting a new program where every one gets an ibook. i've had mine for about 2 weeks and in this time i've only shut it down 2 times. it was fine when i turned it back on the other times but today i turned it off and when i turned it back on a picture of the earth was on the screen blinking for a while and then there was a picture of a folder that on it kept changing the finder face and a question mark. WHAT HAPPENED? i want to see if i can fix it before taking it to the tech people at school.

02-26-2004, 03:35 PM

Not a problem

The earth thing is your iBook searching the network for a startup folder
the Finder face with the ? is it searching the computer for the startup folder.

just let the bootup go and it will eventually boot up normally

To stop it from doing that go to the System Preferences --> Startup Disk and select the OS X folder that is there.

That should do it

02-26-2004, 03:58 PM

i let it run and it went for about 15 minutes, then it shut down. when it first started doing it i thought it was tryting to do a network startup, so maybe i can just wait till i get to school tomorrow and let it do it that way.