There are lots of reports of Leopard where the system is not responding, but the mouse able to move, but no interaction - can't launch anything or even bring up the Force Quit dialogue.
#Apple mac dvd drive usb c pro
Ever since my Apple split ergonomic keyboard died, and I've got 4 Apple Pro keyboards sitting around (I can palm a basketball but don't like typing on small keyboards). I've used an MS keyboard for about 4 yrs on my G4, still running 10.4.11.
FW cables and devices (not sure if LaCie has the market cornered or not) that "wipe out" FW ports, cause shorts, should be avoided (maybe banned).
Slow boot sometimes kernel panic other times pull the cable, life is back to normal again. One G5 owner has a LaCie drive not even connected, but the FW cable was, hanging out the back, and would cause: So doubt and verify any cables and devices. The USB extension cable Apple includes being one such that has been known to be the culprit. And, of course, a backup of your working system.
Always always clone your system create an Emergency boot drive to work from - and used only in emergency so you know it works and isn't just a backup. Outside of the G4 PCI model (1999, early '00) a G4 can boot from Firewire, any problem I'd guess was a defective FW port some FW cases themselves. And a damaged journaling file is even harder to fix usually. The only time I've seen where someone could not boot from a DVD/CD was when the hard drive in the system directory was severely corrupt - OS X looks to find any and all bootable devices even when you boot from CD or another drive. I too was troubleshooting an issue and got the "run around." There have been a lot of major problems with Apple USB hub type support. Force the device ID list to be rebuilt, and does a more complete job than zapping can. The one thing that I would do, is not just "zap PRAM" from cold boot, but boot into the Open Firmware screen and RESET-NVRAM, and see if that helps. Usually plugged into an Apple Display, but on some occassions I've had to plug it directly into front USB port (or rear, front is accessible). I have 3 Microsoft keyboards, going back to my G4 MDD. Any additional thoughts are much appreciated.
#Apple mac dvd drive usb c install
Any additional thoughts? (In the meantime I am going to look for my 10.4 install disk and try to boot from it, which I swear I could do when I upgraded using this same keyboard - obviously, since I am upgraded to 10.4 and I was using this keyboard when I did it.) Money's extremely tight and if I can avoid buying not only a new keyboard, but taking my system in for repair or getting a whole new Mac, well, that's just not in the family budget right now. So this seemed to me to be a problem with the disk, since the system was actually letting me choose which disk to use to boot from. but then it would appear to "drop out" and start rebooting from the system on my primary internal hard disk. I actually tried it a few times, and sometimes it would mess with my head by seeming like it was actually going to boot from DiskWarrior. Hey Cathryn, I should have mentioned that I also tried the Option key and I was presented with a choice of startup disks, including the DVD drive, but even when I selected the DVD, my system still booted from the internal boot disk.
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