startup

I have a G5 dual 2.0 running 10.5.8 that has been running almost continuously for the past 7 years. This weekend I was swapping drives - not the boot drive, the second one. I left the machine powered off overnight and when I tried to boot the next day, I get the white screen with apple logo and...

Hi, I am Frederik. Some days ago, I started up my macbook pro, with snow leopard on it. During startup, I realised, I wanted to start my windows section. I was in a bit of a hurry, so I did something bad, I just pressed the power button during startup. And now, every time I try to start up my...

Hi, I install Houdini on my Macbook, but whenever I open it it insists on opening Safari for tutorials. How can I stop this from happening?

Help?! OSX fails to start past the blue screen; applications "quitting unexpectedly" Hi, I have a problem with my Macbook Pro and I can't seem to find any other threads about this... I hope this isn't too wordy of an explanation, but I'm not very technical, so here it goes! I had to restart...

hello all, alright here's my dilemma: i need to access data from an SATA drive which came out of another mac. normally i would simply connect it internally in my present mac. the issue is that the new drive was designated as the startup drive in the other mac. would this cause a conflict in...