In article <85f023ffb4926@uwe>, samwalker7 via MacKB.com <u44337@uwe> wrote:
> I have picked the icon, clicked on it, and it does nothing. If I hit enter, > it goes to another screen with an icon that looks like a 3.5 floppy disk. > Inside this icon is a blinking question mark. It stays there for several > mintues and then the computer shuts off.
so it's recognizing that the system is bootable (when it puts up the icons) but when it tries to boot it fails, so it really isn't bootable after all. it sounds like it's corrupted somehow.
you'll need to boot off a system disc to see what exactly is going on, and possibly reinstalling the system. it's also could be that there's disk corruption which could be fixed, either with apple's disk utility, or alsoft's diskwarrior.