Tiger Not Working

Hello
A few days ago my friend was using my computer. I turned it on later and nothing worked. It boots up with the apple logo and chimes and and eventually goes to the login screen. From here everything disapeer's. I am left with a Blue background with a black cursor. Please help. i don't know what to do.

Boot from the OS installation disc and use Disk Utility to Repair the disk.

(Put the disc in, hold down the C key and let it boot.)

i Have tried that already. It will bypass it ... i dont know why

Instead of holding down the C key, press the "Option" key instead and choose the Tiger DVD to boot from. Once booted from the DVD, run Disk Utility.

And after you repair the disk, or maybe even do a format and clean install keep you 'friend' away from your computer.

lacgullason said:

i Have tried that already.

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On my list of forum pet peeves, this is #2. If you tell us what you've already tried in the first place, we won't tell you to try something that has failed to help!

(#1 is stupid thread titles, where stupid = not descriptive of the post's content - you know, like the headline of an article)

Hey everyone unfortunatley none of your guys's advice worked i tried booting holding C and booting hold OPTION and when i hold C nothing happens, when i hold OPTION i get a blue screen that looks like OS9 and a harddrive with an X CD i click on it and once again nothing happens.

You click on the OSX DVD icon then on the blue arrow to the right.

i do that and all it does is bring me back to the start up menu and does the same thing

Then it sounds like your optical drive is not reading the OSX DVD. Is the DVD clean?