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spilled cola on TiBook! Doesn't boot X!
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hey folks. sorry for not searching--it just isn't working.
one of my profs spilled cola on his 'book. G4, 500. Apple has since replaced the keyboard (which immediately kicked the bucket when cola spilled on it). But now it doesn't boot OS X. Will boot from 9.2.1 and 9.1 from firewire drive. Nada on booting into X.
What's going on here? thanks.
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what kind of cola was it?
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I bet it was that heathen RC Cola crap.
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well, it was MS Cola. when I spilled it on the 'book, it asked if I wanted it to be my Default Cola. When I clicked "No", it fried everything.
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so he spilled it or you spilled it? Either way, sorry man, you're screwed. Did you try reinstalling osX?...
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it simply won't boot X, whether from its partition or from the CD-ROM installer.
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Must have been the Anti-X cola. You should try spilling XPro cola then reboot twice  But seriously, what could the soda have fried that would be able to differentiate between X and 9.2 ? ? Is there an OSX detection chip inside ? ? This is wierd. Better call Mulder
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one of my profs spilled cola on his 'book. G4, 500. Apple has since replaced the keyboard (which immediately kicked the bucket when cola spilled on it). But now it doesn't boot OS X. Will boot from 9.2.1 and 9.1 from firewire drive. Nada on booting into X.
It boots from an external firewire drive but it doesn't boot from the internal drive, right ? well, simple, hard drive got cooked....or stoned, if you prefer (since it was coke) 
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"One good thing about music, when it hits you you feel no pain" - Brad Nowell (Sublime) (Bob Marley's Cover - Trenchtown Rock)
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Originally posted by fulmer:
<STRONG>hey folks. sorry for not searching--it just isn't working.
one of my profs spilled cola on his 'book. G4, 500. Apple has since replaced the keyboard (which immediately kicked the bucket when cola spilled on it). But now it doesn't boot OS X. Will boot from 9.2.1 and 9.1 from firewire drive. Nada on booting into X.
What's going on here? thanks.</STRONG>
To my knowledge, OSX can't boot from an external drive. I think that's your problem. He must have been booting X from the internal drive perviously, and the internal drive got fried by the coke.
ALTERNATIVELY, if you don't think that's the problem, try this: hook the TiBook up to an external monitor and try booting into X (close the lid as soon as the machine reboots to force it to use the external monitor. My TiBook, which has been back to Apple's Houston Service Center twice for replacement of defective parts, does not boot X unless it's using an external monitor. Let me know if that's what's happening to you. Perhaps we could point this out to Apple and they'd realize that some of the replacement parts they've used were defective.
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it used to boot X fine. Not from firewire, but from the internal drive. Post-cola was when it no longer boots from X, only 9.x now. We've tried a total reformat but for naught. I guess this is one of those mysteries that will never be solved.... Thanks for the input everyone.
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Originally posted by fulmer:
<STRONG>it used to boot X fine. Not from firewire, but from the internal drive. Post-cola was when it no longer boots from X, only 9.x now. We've tried a total reformat but for naught. I guess this is one of those mysteries that will never be solved.... Thanks for the input everyone.</STRONG>
my guess is that something happened to one of the memory modules. Try borrowing some memory to see if that helps.
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If the RAM were damaged, it would't be able to boot 9 successfully (or a message would appear announcing the presence of bad RAM).
Much more, I suspect that the PRAM/Power Manager is corrupted. To reset it, turn off the machine, then hold down the reset button (tiny button with a triangle logo, next to modem port I believe) for about 10 seconds. Then turn on the machine and select the desired OS in Startup Disk. I bet it'll work. (I have seen corrupted PRAM make OS X unbootable before, and doing a reset did the trick.)
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