OS 10.4 - Problem On Restart

cNK · cNK #1 (**permalink**)

02-11-2008, 07:59 PM

Hey:

I just had a weird, forced restart a few minutes ago. My MacBook was sleeping with the USB HD up and running. When I "woke it up" and I tried to play a mp3 file in iTunes the little spinning rainbow appeared

(My entire mp3 library is on my USB HD.) So I forced quit iTunes and tried accessing my library through Finder... same result

I then thought of unmounting my USB HD through Disk Utility and again my system froze

At this point, my only solution was to force shutdown the machine which I did. And on restart the start-up sound repeatedly played, like a scratched CD at least a dozen times, in front of a blank screen before the Apple logo appeared. Tiger (10.4.11) then quickly started without a problem and the USB HD automatically mounted. Everything seems fine, however I'd just like to know what happened. Any suggestions?
Thanks.

The Vindicat3d · The Vindicat3d #2 (**permalink**)

02-11-2008, 09:59 PM

Something with the PRAM?! I have no idea! I would suggest a repair disk or run some maintenance scripts just to make sure everything is fine and dandy.

cNK · cNK #3 (**permalink**)

02-12-2008, 02:13 AM

Will do. Thanks.

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cNK #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jun 25, 2007 Location: O Canada Posts: 109 Mac Specs: WhiteBook (2.16GHz C2D - 2GB RAM - 120GB HDD - OS X Tiger)	02-11-2008, 07:59 PM Hey: I just had a weird, forced restart a few minutes ago. My MacBook was sleeping with the USB HD up and running. When I "woke it up" and I tried to play a mp3 file in iTunes the little spinning rainbow appeared (My entire mp3 library is on my USB HD.) So I forced quit iTunes and tried accessing my library through Finder... same result I then thought of unmounting my USB HD through Disk Utility and again my system froze At this point, my only solution was to force shutdown the machine which I did. And on restart the start-up sound repeatedly played, like a scratched CD at least a dozen times, in front of a blank screen before the Apple logo appeared. Tiger (10.4.11) then quickly started without a problem and the USB HD automatically mounted. Everything seems fine, however I'd just like to know what happened. Any suggestions? Thanks.
	QUOTE Thanks

The Vindicat3d #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Nov 05, 2007 Posts: 985 Mac Specs: Black MacBook- 2.2GHz, 1gb RAM, 160GB, Double-Layer Superdrive.	02-11-2008, 09:59 PM Something with the PRAM?! I have no idea! I would suggest a repair disk or run some maintenance scripts just to make sure everything is fine and dandy.
	QUOTE Thanks

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