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<blockquote data-quote="geekylady" data-source="post: 409514" data-attributes="member: 32253"><p>I tried again, this time pressing alt-apple-p-r. It chimed and then appeared to go back to start and chimed again. I let that happen five times and each time it chimed and just the grey screen with no happy mac. Then I took my hands off the keyboard and it went through its routine, and we got to the dektop - but no menus, no icons. The hard drive chunters away for some time after a pause of about 30 seconds - but nothing appears. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>I shall try the previous combination of keys again. That seemed to do something.....</p><p></p><p>ps again. found out the alt key is Option. No joy with that or resetting the PRam - yet doing <strong>Ctrl</strong>-Command-P-R gets me the taskbar and the menus, and even an Internet explorer page came up when I clicked on one spot of the blank desktop - as if the icons are present but invisible. However, I know that there are lots of icons on the desktop as they all come up when I boot from CD, but I didn't get anything else but the Internet explorer page when I clicked again, so maybe it was just an odd event.</p><p></p><p>Can you have too many icons on the desktop BTW? There are so many they are piled on top of each other.Could that be the problem??</p><p></p><p>We are going to open it up and see if we can reset the cuda chip next - unless you good folks have any better ideas...?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="geekylady, post: 409514, member: 32253"] I tried again, this time pressing alt-apple-p-r. It chimed and then appeared to go back to start and chimed again. I let that happen five times and each time it chimed and just the grey screen with no happy mac. Then I took my hands off the keyboard and it went through its routine, and we got to the dektop - but no menus, no icons. The hard drive chunters away for some time after a pause of about 30 seconds - but nothing appears. :( I shall try the previous combination of keys again. That seemed to do something..... ps again. found out the alt key is Option. No joy with that or resetting the PRam - yet doing [B]Ctrl[/B]-Command-P-R gets me the taskbar and the menus, and even an Internet explorer page came up when I clicked on one spot of the blank desktop - as if the icons are present but invisible. However, I know that there are lots of icons on the desktop as they all come up when I boot from CD, but I didn't get anything else but the Internet explorer page when I clicked again, so maybe it was just an odd event. Can you have too many icons on the desktop BTW? There are so many they are piled on top of each other.Could that be the problem?? We are going to open it up and see if we can reset the cuda chip next - unless you good folks have any better ideas...? [/QUOTE]
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