Thread: Flashing Globe

Thank you so much for your support. What you described was exactly the problem. I fixed it per your instructions. iMac   Mac OS X (10.4.6)    

Hi Yes. This means in the startup disk Preferences Pane in System Preferences you've probably mistakenly set this to look for a NetBoot Service. Going into the Preference Pane and selecting your internal hard drive will get rid of the 'problem'. You could also zap the Parameter RAM on start-up to 'reset' everything back to normal as well. On reboot depress the command+alt+P+R keys simultaneously. You should hear the...

Hello hawsink, The flashing globe signifies that your Mac is drying to boot from a network volume and not your Mac's internal drive. It still boots up normally because once it gives up trying to access a network volume with Mac OS X installed, it tries the next one in line, which happens to be your internal hard drive. To change this, head to System Preferences -> StartUp Disk , and make sure your Internal Drive with Mac OS X...

I had to add my two cents on this. I had pretty much the exact same symptoms with 10.6.2 on my Mac Mini. However, the solutions listed here did not fix my problem. I also tried a few other things in Utilities with the hard drive and still no improvement. Any way, after I brought it into the Genius Bar it turns out the problem for me was a faulty keyboard. I guess the keys were stuck somehow so that on restart it was being told (through the...