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Can't Repair Disc Permissions
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<blockquote data-quote="StymieMotJuste" data-source="post: 1240778" data-attributes="member: 202525"><p>I'm a video/audio editor and am at the end of my diagnoisic accumen.</p><p></p><p>I have a computer that takes a day to boot, and then just hangs on the pinwheel. I have tried everything I know to fix it, and now need a real technician. </p><p></p><p>Here are the specs</p><p></p><p>G5 quad core PowerMac 2005(late) (not Intel)</p><p>4gigs ram</p><p>I think my processor speed is 1.87</p><p></p><p>Problem:</p><p></p><p>Computer unresponsive.</p><p>Verified disc permissions on boot drive - verified something was wrong and needed to repair disc permissions</p><p>Tried to repair disc permissions on the hard drive I boot from. After a day and a half no progress had been made. Repair hung on the horizontal blue barber pole. </p><p></p><p>Then, I manually inserted the install disc and ran Repair disc permissions from the utilities menu, again, repair did not progress.</p><p></p><p>Test the hardware, everything passed. </p><p> reset pram</p><p></p><p>Tried to boot, took a day and a half, again, tried to run Repair Disc Permissions, but it did not work.</p><p></p><p>Booted from Install, tried to repair disc permissions, did not work.</p><p></p><p>I've repeated the steps above several times, now I end up at what looks like DOS when I boot. and the screen says, "disk timeout"</p><p></p><p>At one point two red lights were lit on the logic board, but have not recreated the situation again. </p><p></p><p>It seems i just need to repair the disc permissions on the Boot HD, but it won't do it.</p><p></p><p>any help is appriciated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="StymieMotJuste, post: 1240778, member: 202525"] I'm a video/audio editor and am at the end of my diagnoisic accumen. I have a computer that takes a day to boot, and then just hangs on the pinwheel. I have tried everything I know to fix it, and now need a real technician. Here are the specs G5 quad core PowerMac 2005(late) (not Intel) 4gigs ram I think my processor speed is 1.87 Problem: Computer unresponsive. Verified disc permissions on boot drive - verified something was wrong and needed to repair disc permissions Tried to repair disc permissions on the hard drive I boot from. After a day and a half no progress had been made. Repair hung on the horizontal blue barber pole. Then, I manually inserted the install disc and ran Repair disc permissions from the utilities menu, again, repair did not progress. Test the hardware, everything passed. reset pram Tried to boot, took a day and a half, again, tried to run Repair Disc Permissions, but it did not work. Booted from Install, tried to repair disc permissions, did not work. I've repeated the steps above several times, now I end up at what looks like DOS when I boot. and the screen says, "disk timeout" At one point two red lights were lit on the logic board, but have not recreated the situation again. It seems i just need to repair the disc permissions on the Boot HD, but it won't do it. any help is appriciated. [/QUOTE]
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