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Topic: Friend's MAC disaster! |
Michael Douchette
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Gallatin, TN (deceased)
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Cal Sharp
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the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Posted 17 Nov 2007 3:03 pm |
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Hey Mike, the blinking folder might mean it can't find the startup disk. Anyway, he needs to pop in the install disk and reboot while holding down the "C" key. This will boot it from the disk and after going thru a couple on install screens (don't reinstall yet) he can got to disk utility, available in the menu bar at the top of the screen, and run that to repair permissions and the hard drive. And then cancel the install and reboot.
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Michael Douchette
From:
Gallatin, TN (deceased)
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Cal Sharp
From:
the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 18 Nov 2007 10:56 am
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"ANY OSX will do" sounds like a cue for a song "Joseph".. 'That's AMAZING'
Looks like your friend's hard drive has problems, but hopefully NOT irreparable.
look what I just picked up |
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Bob Hickish
From:
Port Ludlow, Washington, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 24 Nov 2007 4:07 pm
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Michael
There is a " safe mode " that may allow him to start up .
At the same time it gives you the F cord fanfare push & hold
the " Shift " key that should start it with all extensions off .
some times what you describe is caused by the OSX
loaded on OS9 classic . if it an older system ! IF IT Starts !
he can select to OS folder , then restart .
hope this helps
Hick |
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Michael Douchette
From:
Gallatin, TN (deceased)
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 24 Nov 2007 7:54 pm
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Aren't we Intel/AMD/Windows/DOS users always being told how Macs don't ever fail ?    |
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Michael Douchette
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Gallatin, TN (deceased)
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Posted 24 Nov 2007 8:07 pm
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Well... I think it's probably like, the higher percentage of any product that's out there, the more you will hear about problems with it. If there are 48 million of one car and 2,000 of another out, there will be more problems with the 48 million. As MAC's become more popular and more in use (thanks in part to their clever marketing in recent years), they are bound to be more susceptible to problems, viruses, etc.
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Joe Butcher
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Dallas,Texas, USA
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Posted 24 Nov 2007 8:23 pm
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| Alan F. Brookes wrote: |
| Aren't we Intel/AMD/Windows/DOS users always being told how Macs don't ever fail ? |
No. I've never heard anyone claim that any computer literally "never failed." |
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basilh
From:
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Posted 24 Nov 2007 8:48 pm
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Alan, I've had computers since Clive Sinclair's Science of Cambridge's MK14 and then the ZX-80 and Spectrum, followed by everything since, even so, I do believe that the vast majority of "Failures' and problems are what's technically known as "Pilot error" !! (At least that's the polite name for it)
I'm sitting in my study looking at the computer bank in front of me, 1 VERY Fast home constructed Pee Cee for the magazine printing, (It drives the lasers better than the macs), 3 G4's topped off with a dualprocessor G5.
One of the G4's is for internet, one for Quark/Photoshop/DTP for the magazine, and one running Logic Audio 7. The G5 is running Logic 8 Studio and the Adobe Creative Suite 3, plus the necessary Microshaft applications such as Excel and Word.
The macs are far less trouble and much more logical..
Did you know that THIS forum is running on the smallest of the macs :-
6.5 inches x 1.96850394 inches !!
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 25 Nov 2007 11:27 am
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 ...I was only teasing |
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 25 Nov 2007 11:59 am
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| It is hard to believe that b0b's running this forum on such a diminutive machine.. especially considering ....... ?? |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 25 Nov 2007 5:18 pm
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| basilh wrote: |
| It is hard to believe that b0b's running this forum on such a diminutive machine.. especially considering ....... ?? |
I'm flabberghasted. In fact my flabber has never been more ghasted.  |
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