Stuck at OS 10.2.3 Blue Screen after Apple Logo |
June, 06, 2003 9:12 PM |
xanderlago |
Hi, After installing OS 10.2.3 my computer boots back up again and my system gets to the blue background screen and I see the Apple logo with the status bar underneath which fills up with blue and displays all the services being loaded. Although after the services are finally loaded and the logo and status bar go away, I am left with just a blue screen and my pointer. I can move my pointer around so it is not frozen but nothing seems to happen after this. Can anyone tell me what could be causing this problem and how would I fix it? I tried using "Safe Boot" by holding down the shift key while booting up but this didn't fix the problem. I tried using the Sonnet X installer but this didn't work at all and their tech support was useless. My computer is as follows: 1) PowerCenterPro 240 2) Sonnet Crescendo G3:500MHz L2:1MB/250MHz 3) Sonnet TEMPO HD PCI 4) ATI Radeon 7000 PCI originally for a PC that I flashed to Mac. 5) 256mb Ram (although just 1 module is in at the moment so 128mb) 6) Using Xpostfacto 2.2.5 7) OS X is installed on a 2GB IBM SCSI drive by itself attached to internal SCSI of motherboard. Nothing else attached to this SCSI cable. 8) Also using a 100GB Western Digital IDE Drive with six partitions attached to Sonnet TEMPO PCI card. OS 9.2 and 9.1 are on partition two and three of this drive. I had originally installed OS X on the first 7.5GB partition of this drive but after installing OS X the system didn't even get up to the Apple Logo so I then reinstalled the operating system on the SCSI drive. 9) Using an Acer IDE CDRW drive attached to Sonnet TEMPO PCI card. I was able to use this drive to install all these operating systems. It took a whole night with no sleep to finally get to the OS X installation part of the process and I thought I was home free but because of this problem now I still haven't completely installed OS X. Any sugguestions would be gladly appreciated. Thanks, Xander |
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June, 10, 2003 2:58 PM |
naturist |
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Glad you got it going, however that happened. No, don't change a THING! I have installed a couple versions of OS X on various machines, supported and unsupported, and I have noted a peculiar tendency to get confused if there are two video setups, either two cards, a card and on-board video, or if the single video has ever been set to run two different monitors. This has often left me with blank blue screens, until I plugged the single monitor into the OTHER video-out only to find that THAT is where the 'puter thought I wanted all those icon thingys to go. The symptoms were just as you described, and the solution was to move the monitor temporarily, then go into System Preferences, and reset things the way I wanted them, and move the monitor back. Dunno if that was a possibility for you, but if so, and if it ever happens again, I'd check that, too. |
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RE: Stuck at OS 10.2.3 Blue Screen after Apple Log |
June, 07, 2003 6:03 AM |
xanderlago |
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Hi, I am writing this post from within OS 10.2.3!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!! I spent the whole night reading the posts on this site and I did a few things based on some of the posts I read: who knows which helped but at least I finally got the darn thing installed... I mixed up the four ram modules I have in the slots interchanging the new two 128MB ram with the two old. I put the original cache card in the slot. I put the "Disable Unit" jumper on the IBM hard drive. I reformated the 2GB SCSI drive wiping out my previous installation. I installed on the internal 2GB SCSI drive the Sonnet X installer first then installed Xpostfacto over it. I think the most important thing was once I got to the installation portion for the OS X software, I unchecked everthing except the OS Base stuff which you can't uncheck. I fell asleep while the installation ocurred and when I woke up, I was at the keyboard selection screen. Who knows how long this process took since I feel asleep but someone or something finally took pity on me because this was the last installation I was going to try... This board was a big help and well worth $10.00!!! :) Thanks Marty for taking the time to respond. Xander |
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E: Stuck at OS 10.2.3 Blue Screen after Apple Logo |
June, 07, 2003 2:19 AM |
mjoecups358 |
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Try going back to os9 and running XPF and selectting verbose mode. Then boot back into OSX and see what happens. I have seen the problem you describe, and the above allowed it to boot fine. Of course it may have been complete coincidence. Marty |
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