EMac G4 Desktop disappearance!

Firstly apologies to the Mods if wrongly placed wire box: don't know if the problem is OS X or the hardware itself. Please move as you wish.

The computer is a very, very gently used g4 emac 1.42 ghz, 2 GB ram. HD has 25 GB 79 gb free space. OS X 10.4.11

Last week my personal office froze on a few occasions that require a start/stop hard - never saw this before. While working, I checked and repaired the disk and permissions of the drive just to be sure. Past.

On the next day to have no office; just a clear blue screen with a mobile cursor. No menu. Nothing to select. No "BONGS", no unusual sounds of HD, no rattling or complain - just not pale blue screen.

Stopped and restarted in 'safe' mode '-all right; eMac works very well but with the limits of normal "safe" mode

Q. where is my office, how can I access it once again, will be what happened to my personal office also reach the mode 'safe '?

A lot of reading later... things I've done:

OS X Tiger DVD starting > disk utilities > repair and check the disc and new permissions > some corrections needed and done > PASSED.

Still cannot start the office staff.

Use of external HD and Macbook Pro core i7 with intention to start test eMac Tiger OS X on an external drive and perhaps clone off existing eMac material before wiping and new OS install acquired.
Have deleted and partitioned Touro EHD on both eMac and Macbook Pro, as 1 Partition and Apple Partition map and then using OS X DVD tried to load on Touro. Won't - implements the error message saying OS X is 4.7 GB and there is not enough free space on selected external hard drive. There are 499 GB free!

I don't know how plu eMac lasts and I can't remember what to do for the better – I am a week older and not further on...

Any help would be appreciated massively. Thank you.

macludite

Hello

Looks like the drive to install 10.4 pre - 10.4.6, which does not include 4096 sectors of the new Advanced Format of Byte.

I would start safe mode & try your current install the external disk cloning... most eMacs can boot from USB drives into the ALT on startup.

My Notes on the secure boot thing, bolded the 2 biggest suspects...

One way to test is at the start of the HD, (now shift key at startup), run utility disk in Applications > Utilities, then highlight your reader, click on repair permissions, test for problem in Mode safe...

PS. secure boot can remain on the gray radian for a long time, let go, he's trying to repair the hard drive & trash/rebuild the cache files

Reboot, try again.

If she does only regular boot, then there might be a hardware problem as Video card, (Quartz is disabled mode without failure), or the airport, some USB or Firewire devices, or the module in part 3, Check System Preferences > accounts (users and groups in later versions of OS x) > login items window to see if she or something relevant is listed. Or a stray process eating RAM.

Check system preferences > Other Row, for the 3rd part Pref panes.

Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible...

/ private/var/run/StartupItems

/ Library/StartupItems

/ System/Library/StartupItems

/ System/Library/LaunchDaemons

/ Library/LaunchDaemons

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