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Help !! My Powerbook ate my homework !!
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: NYC (center of the known universe)
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So I purchased a Rev B 17 inch Powerbook yesterday; put it through the paces, (installing everything, checking out the DVD player, etc.). But when I popped in a rewritable CD that I've been working off of with my old PC, the computer flipped out. It said 'you need to restart your computer'. No explanation, no alternative. Nothing. Just 'restart your computer'. I did this three times, and every time, it finished booting, and went STRAIGHT back to that box. Ok. I'm trying not to go crazy, but it's very hard not to only 12 hours into having it. I could keep rebooting and try to tap away at the eject button, but I'd like to believe there's another way.
So, can anybody give me some help? I'd really appreciate it.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Learn about the secret of Mac booting, that will save you a lot of time and headaches in the future.
such as resetting the PRAM
booting off from the cd
booting off from the zip drive
ejecting your stuck CD......Hold down the mouse button when the computer reboots or trackpad button
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Tried holding down the mouse button-- nothing. Besides that, when I do get the disk out, how am I going to get the computer to ever read it w/o telling me to restart? It's not a question of the disk, it's not corrupted....
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
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Originally posted by HemoAggelos:
Tried holding down the mouse button-- nothing. Besides that, when I do get the disk out, how am I going to get the computer to ever read it w/o telling me to restart? It's not a question of the disk, it's not corrupted....
You sound sure of that.
Fact is, it's crashing your computer (you're seeing a "kernel panic", which is a unixy name for a system crash). There is something not right with either the disk or your drive.
-s*
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Actually, you're right. I managed to get the CD out, put it in my PC, and found out there were three corrupted files on it. So, I'm burning a new CD and copying the rest of the data. We'll see how that goes.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Los Angeles of the East
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tisk tisk tisk.....and you were trying to pin it on your powerbook.
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NOW YOU SEE ME! 2.4 MBP and 2.0 MBP (running ubuntu)
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