Russell- I had similiar issues, although not identical. The key was getting rid of all Rewire related software in the system library and home library. This finally allowed my L8 to boot up. A drag, but hopefully a fix is the way. -Evan Benjamin On Mar 5, 2008, at 7:57 AM, russell Pay wrote: > Message posted by russell Pay <russpay@btinternet.com>: > > HI - hope someone can help me out here - i have had Logic working > great > with DTDM and DAE running for year on my G5 dual 2.7 and a PT accel 2 > through a 192 interface and then, suddenly it's all started to unhinge > itself, culminating in the loss of a day's work (both embarrassing and > leading to a loss of time) and now the program won't even boot at all. > It all started as soon as i updated to Logic pro 8 (BIG BIG mistake > it seems > to me) where i then had to update the protools from 7.1 to 7.4 > (another 150 > quid, thanks digidesign) to get the core audio working, and then > after a > couple of crash free weeks the beach ball of death started creeping > in when > i pressed either the play or the record buttons. > Usually a swift reboot would do the trick, but then the whole > system froze > which has not happened for literally years as tiger is usually so > stable! > Then, the project i was working on would't stay open for any length > of time, > but other projects did, but gradually nothing at all would work at > all. > Tried utilities, fixing disk from dvd (minor problem detected) > repairing > permissions and having a cleanup with onyx, but nothing, nada niet. > On booting, it always hangs at the "starting loop browser" - wtf? i > don't > even know what it is!! > > I'm currently reinstalling logic 8 to see if that helps, but can > anyone help > me with this please??? what's the score with compatibility here? > Best OS? > (i'm not going to leopard as i hear it's even worse!) Best DIgi > drivers? ( > i'm on pT7.4) best version of logic? I'm on 8.01 > > cheers, > Russ Pay, the cd clinic > >