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Join Date: Feb 2001
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I have spent the last two hours trying to get my Al powerbook to work.
After a dozen kernel panics, I log on, only to have the system freeze.
I reboot, get more kp's, only to log on to a spinning beach ball.
I reboot, and logon to no menu bar.
I reboot, and logon to no menu bar, but a few icons in the top right hand corner.
I reboot, and finally get in. As soon as I can get folders to open, I am going to back up everything.
Nope, nothing happening. Time for another reboot.
I suppose I could always use firewire mode, and just copy everything to my iMac.
I bought this last September, with all Apple components.
As much as I enjoy using it, it is becoming more and more unstable.
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Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion - Steven Weinberg.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Long Beach, CA
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Run the Apple Hardware Test.
You likely have bad RAM, which will corrupt your OS on an OS reinstall.
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ACSA 10.4/10.3, ACTC 10.3, ACHDS 10.3
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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Originally posted by Detrius:
Run the Apple Hardware Test.
You likely have bad RAM, which will corrupt your OS on an OS reinstall.
Thanks Detrius, I wouldn't have thought of that.
Have just finished running the extended test - everything passed.
I will keep trying to login, and back up to DVD, then reinstall OS X.
Unless there are other tests I should perform first.
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Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion - Steven Weinberg.
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Your Airport card might be loose. This happened to me before. Check all components are securely in place, memory and airport card.
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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Originally posted by RooneyX:
Your Airport card might be loose. This happened to me before. Check all components are securely in place, memory and airport card.
Thanks, I'll try that next.
In case others are interested, I found this :
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86622
BTW, when I finally logon, and choose 'shut down' from the Apple menu, the dock and menu bar disappear, but the powerbook doesn't shut down.
The background screen remains, as does the mouse cursor.
Don't know if that is another clue for you good people.
(Edited link.)
(Last edited by xenu; Jun 11, 2004 at 11:49 PM.
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Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion - Steven Weinberg.
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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Please don't partition. It's more hassle than it's worth, and there's nothing that f1000 says partitioning does that "archive and install" can't do better.
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Tooki’s right: DON’T PARTITION.
In the thread that I referred you to, I had explained why I thought it was useful to keep separate Admin and User accounts (which are not the same things as partitions).
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Moderator  Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Jose, CA
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Remove both the airport card and any DIMM you may have installed. If you are stable in that setup, bad RAM, even though it is from Apple, is still a possibility.
Steve
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Join Date: May 2002
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When I first installed my Airport card I didn't have the card seated all the way and I had symptoms like you're talking about. Also had some kernel panics and other odd behavior. Reseated the card and wham! it worked great, nad has ever since.
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thank god you didn't partition.
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