apple OS problem

[Wightout]

i am short on the details about the machine, but i want to know if anyone has heard of the OS openning with a purple apple in the begining.

I have never seen this before, and i know that it cant be right becuase the apple slogan upon start up is supose to be that acua color. but it is purple here.

does anyone have an idea.

 

[Dahak]

If its a purple apple, that flashes, from that to a folder with a question mark it genereally means it cannot locate a boot decive.
What he can try is boot off the apple os cd by instering it into the drive and while the machine initially powers up hold the C key.
He should then beable to run Disk First Aid(mac os 9) or disk utility (mac x) to see if it can repair the drive, provided the drive is reconized
if not may need repair install of os if drive is reconized

 

[Wightout]

The loading takes a long time, but after the wait everything goes back to the way it normally is. One thing that he keeps complaining about though is that it crashes alot.

I don't know what is wrong with the sucker. I have never heard of something like that happening. It is odd.

I told him he should just go to tiger, but he dosn't have the time to buy it and he would rather not mess with the thing. Aparently hes had a lot of problems with it. It won't recognize his ipod, and other little quirks.

 

[Dahak]

Could be some esle wrong with the system, may be best if can he can have a tech look at it. Couldnt really say what else it could be

 

[hopejr]

Let's get something straight here, what version of Mac OS is your friend using? Maybe then we can get this sorted out (oh, and what type of power mac is it?)