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ibook trouble starting up, etc
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steve666
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Dec 15, 2007, 03:17 AM
 
Every morning when I turn on my ibook I get the spinning ball and the top icons sort of appear but the screen is an odd color then it just hangs. I restart it and it starts but has trouble opening safari and wont connect to the internet. I discovered that when I change location from automatic to LAN it can then connect.
I ran fsck and it said harddrive fine. I ran YASU and repaired permissions, etc but during prebinding I got an error message and when I checked the log it mentioned something about quicktime.
I ran the quicktime update and ran YASU after and the prebinding seemed to work.
However, the computer still acted up the next morning.
I snooped around the hard drive and found something that sounded strange but maybe normal? In start-up there was something caalled microsoft AU Daemon. In activity monitor it mentioned pipe daemon. Are these normal?
I'm at a loss as to whats the problem-any ideas?
Also, how can I stop ical from starting up when I turn on my ibook-I never use it.
Thanks for any info!
     
f1000
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Dec 15, 2007, 03:23 AM
 


Sounds like your iBook needs an exorcism.
     
steve666  (op)
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Dec 15, 2007, 11:44 AM
 
Sounds like it to me. What the heck are those daemon things?
     
f1000
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Dec 15, 2007, 06:56 PM
 
Try running Hardware Test off of your Install DVD to see if you're having hardware issues.
     
steve666  (op)
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Dec 15, 2007, 07:25 PM
 
Originally Posted by f1000 View Post
Try running Hardware Test off of your Install DVD to see if you're having hardware issues.

I dont have the DVD, this is a hand me down from my niece and she lost the discs. However, I ran fsck and my hard drive came up clean so I think maybe its a virus/worm?
Do you know of any freeware/shareware program that kills worms and viruses? Virus Barrier needs 10.4 to run and I have 10.3.9.
     
   
 
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