MAC OSX - White screen of death? |
 Oct 13 2008, 10:49 PM
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So I got, what I think is hardware failure. Went to the gym, came home, computer had frozen about an hour before I came back. Held the button to shut it down, hit the button to load and went to make dinner. Came back to a white screen with a blinking folder w/ a question mark. Any OSX pros? Holding option, C, etc doesn't seem to do anything when I load it back up.
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Oct 14 2008, 09:30 AM
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Booting from the CD on a mac, do I just put the CD in and hold the 'C' key while I power on? I was reading the apple discussion boards and that seemed to be a popular response. Some also said to hold the option key when booting up. I've tried both, but neither with the OS cd in. My friend brought it up, but he's in class right now so I'm just waiting on him to get out.
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kryogenix MAC OSX - White screen of death? Oct 13 2008, 10:49 PM
fameONE Yikes. I was actually just about to post a topic a... Oct 14 2008, 12:04 AM kryogenix Nah, nothing crazy done to it either. It might ha... Oct 14 2008, 12:24 AM
fameONE QUOTE(kryogenix @ Oct 13 2008, 11:24 PM) ... Oct 14 2008, 12:29 AM kryogenix I am, but what I worry about is if that would void... Oct 14 2008, 12:32 AM manic This has happened TWICE to me. The first time the ... Oct 14 2008, 12:33 AM fameONE Your harddrive is probably fried. When did you get... Oct 14 2008, 12:46 AM meloco32 QUOTE(kryogenix @ Oct 13 2008, 10:49 PM) ... Oct 14 2008, 01:36 AM mipadi Probably not a hard drive failure (could be, but p... Oct 14 2008, 08:12 AM kryogenix Alright so I put in the OSX cd and it loaded up th... Oct 14 2008, 10:37 AM kryogenix So it is harddrive failure :] I went to the mac s... Oct 14 2008, 01:55 PM ----- QUOTE(kryogenix @ Oct 14 2008, 02:55 PM) ... Oct 20 2008, 03:37 AM kryogenix And I got it back. Oct 15 2008, 10:31 AM fameONE ^time to start backing everything up with an exter... Oct 15 2008, 11:51 PM kryogenix Yup, already did that. Have a 450gb external set ... Oct 16 2008, 12:49 AM fameONE QUOTE(kryogenix @ Oct 15 2008, 11:49 PM) ... Oct 16 2008, 01:20 AM kryogenix One year minus one day from when I got the problem... Oct 16 2008, 01:51 AM fameONE QUOTE(kryogenix @ Oct 16 2008, 12:51 AM) ... Oct 16 2008, 02:31 AM kryogenix Ah well, hopefully I'll be set now. They repl... Oct 16 2008, 09:03 AM |
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