Hi There, wasn't sure weather to put this in hardware or software since i'm not sure what the problem is yet. I'm working on a 2.1ghz intel imac. 20" with the white enclosure. Searched around, but cant find any solutions to my particular problem. Whenever I turn it on, it loads the desktop background, dock, and a finder window. Sometimes i have a cursor for a few seconds, sometimes not, but either way i can never click on anything. No desktop icons ever load, and after no more than 15 seconds, everything goes back to a blue screen and the desktop and finder reloads. This loop just goes on forever with anywhere between 2 and 30 seconds between each cycle. I'm never able to click or do anything. If I boot in safe mode, each cycle it just adds another step and makes me actually log in with my password. I've reset smu and pram. Don't have stuffit in the bottom of my preferences panel, so this usual fix for this issue doesn't apply. Booted with the install disk and ran disk utilites, repaired disk and permissions, still no luck. My main concern is getting all my files onto an external drive I have, but i've had no luck with that either, couldn't create an image. Now, when booting from the install cd, i cant even get disk utilities to start anymore. I'm starting to suspect a hardware issue now, but just don't know for sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
-Mark
-Mark