PowerMac G4 blue screen (Tiger)

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Now I know alot of people are having this exact same problem with Leopard, but I have yet to even touch 10.5...but I'm still booting to a light-blue screen. This started about a month ago and I've almost given up on it. I can boot into safe mode, but thats it.

Its done this before, and I did what Apple support page said to do for this problem. Go into safe mode, System Pref, Users, Accounts, delete all log-in items...and it worked. Thing is, this time aroumd, there ARE not log-in items!

Any help would be awesome
 
my G3 iBook running 10.3 did this... i reformatted because i didnt want to bother trying to fix it, so thats always an option :p
 
in my experiences with this screen, it was usually because the OS was updating/repairing itself. i would let it do its thing, walk away, and come back later. when i did, it was sitting there at the log in screen ready for me. you might let it run and see if it will finish what it is trying to do, or, like the previous poster said, do a re-install. i always find that a good thing to do on occasion. :D
 
did you leave it running to see if it would get through it or just force a power down after a few minutes? if you didnt try that try it.

do you have any programs that launch on startup and auto check for updates? if so, try to boot from cd and kill all those. or at least make sure your network is working. this should only affect the system after boot, but it depends on what it was and how integrated into the os it was.

you can always boot from cd save your files and then reinstall the os, which, is what i would recommend at this point. i mean its not gonna hurt anything, you cant boot to the os now, so it might save it.

also boot from the cd and then examine your hdd. see if it has any problems.
 
I know you said you removed your custom StartUpItems, but does your Mac have APE installed?

If so, delete it.

Also, why not just do an "Archive Install" of Tiger? That will preserve all your settings and documents.
 
wankrtron said:
you can always boot from cd save your files and then reinstall the os, which, is what i would recommend at this point. i mean its not gonna hurt anything, you cant boot to the os now, so it might save it.
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Archive install can be a wonderful thing!

also boot from the cd and then examine your hdd. see if it has any problems.
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I've actually fixed a similar problem by running disk utility and repairing permissions while booted from the 10.4 install DVD.

fri2219 said:
Also, why not just do an "Archive Install" of Tiger? That will preserve all your settings and documents.
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Just like the other guy said, it's a great option. Especially with the migration assistant. You can pretty much have your system up and running in an hour or two.
 
Finally got around to doing this again, here we go

I left the Mac on for about 10 minutes, and the blue screen seems to have had a graphical error. 2/3rds of the screen is now white with thin black lines, with what looks like three purple lines going downwards in it. The top 1/3rd is still blue. Obviously quite a graphical glitch, and not something I should be seeing.

I'll try an archive install now, even though my install disk is an older version of 10.4 I'll report back to you on what happens.
 
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