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hi!
my ibook g4 12inch running leopard can't shut down or restart. the application creating the problem is coconutbattery 2.6.2.

i tried force quitting multiple times, but it wouldnt budge. i tried opening activity monitor, but i get an error message when trying to open activity monitor.

what should i do!
 
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y0itzr0 said:
hi!
my ibook g4 12inch running leopard can't shut down or restart. the application creating the problem is coconutbattery 2.6.2.

i tried force quitting multiple times, but it wouldnt budge. i tried opening activity monitor, but i get an error message when trying to open activity monitor.

what should i do!
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Probably not the best course of action in the world, but it doesn't seem like you have a choice - I would try pressing and holding the power button until it turns off. Then, when it comes back up, make sure you run a Verify and Repair in Disk Utility.
 
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thnx for the reply,
i am actually now getting a bit nervous. the last time i started up my computer, it wouldn't budge from the apple logo, spinny thing, forcing me to hold the power button. also, now when i try increasing or decreasing the sound or screen brightness, it changes, but i can't "see it" happening. normally, you can see the bar, and it getting more full, or less full.

what is happening? my laptop is only close to 3 years old.
 
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y0itzr0 said:
thnx for the reply,
i am actually now getting a bit nervous. the last time i started up my computer, it wouldn't budge from the apple logo, spinny thing, forcing me to hold the power button. also, now when i try increasing or decreasing the sound or screen brightness, it changes, but i can't "see it" happening. normally, you can see the bar, and it getting more full, or less full.

what is happening? my laptop is only close to 3 years old.
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Have you done any maintenance on it? If not, may I suggest running some of the maintenance tasks in Onyx? In addition, you may want to try resetting the PRAM.
 
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thnx,
yeah, ive done onyx, running the scripts and stuff. ill reset the pram asap!

thnx
 
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Insert your OSX disc, hold down option key when restarting, and start from your disc. get disk utility from the utilities menu and repair HD.
 

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