Help! My Mac is stuck on a blue screen


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I start it up like I always do, then It shows me the grey Mac Loading Screen, It then shows loading Mac osx, then it just hangs in that window.

I've tried the shift safe mode method the problem is that i'm running the sound through an external sound card and I cant hear when the tone comes on. I also don't have my mac osx cd, any ideas?

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Have you tried resetting your PRAM

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

1 Shut down the computer.

2 Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.

Turn on the computer.

3 Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.

4 Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.

Release the keys.

Hope that helps

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well see heres the problem... I don't have a restore disk I was thinking of buying snow leopard next week and just doing a fresh install -- if thats even possible.

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You should run fsck before trying anything else. You don't need a restore disk to boot into single user mode ;)

Just hold Command+S while booting. When you're given the chance, type

/sbin/fsck -fy

, and see what comes up.

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