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Computer won’t start up
I know this is for FCP but maybe an editor has run across this problem. When I turned on computer, the computer is on (the white light is on), you here it warm up for a couple seconds, then there is silence and nothing happens after that. This happened for the first time yesterday and I turned the computer off and on a couple times and finally got it to work, but it has happened again today. Anyone ever have this happen, and any suggestions? This is a 3 year old G5 if that helps.
Thanks!
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3 Replies
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My guess….failing hard drive or processor. backup immediately.
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Run Disk Warrior.
John
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You do not need to buy Disk Warrior. The new edition of Macworld has an excellent troubleshooting feature article worth buying the issue.
Once you get up and running, run a clone of your drive. A clone.
Run Disk Utilities to rebuild the permissions but do that AFTER you’ve backed up your drive.
Restart holding down the shift key this will initiate a safe boot and do a bunch of disk maintenance routines.
Disk Utility cannot run a repair run on your active system drive unless you start from an external system drive or the installer disk for your machine. Find it. Start with the C key down, when it finally boots form the optical, under the tope menu you will find Utilities. run Disk Utility to repair your drive.
bogiesan
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