Fsck this.
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To those of you I owe writing, applications, or email: My apologies, but until I am able to force my personal computer to function for more than a few minutes, you're going to have to hold on to your hats.
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elvenjen4: I'm going to try to run a fsck when I get home from work, but I don't know if I can get it to boot up that far -- it's been dying well before it's booted.
It's got what I think is a hardware number on the forced shutdown messages. My preferences are all gone, my bookmarks disappeared, I can't keep programs launched (problems no longer occur solely when charging, but there's something else wrong with the battery: I left it fully charged, and when I went to boot it up it was dry), and I constantly get shutdown messages, even during a boot. Zapping the PRAM doesn't work, and what I thought was my Norton CD turns out to be the OS9 version.
Any ideas?
To those of you I owe writing, applications, or email: My apologies, but until I am able to force my personal computer to function for more than a few minutes, you're going to have to hold on to your hats.
elvenjen4: I'm going to try to run a fsck when I get home from work, but I don't know if I can get it to boot up that far -- it's been dying well before it's booted.It's got what I think is a hardware number on the forced shutdown messages. My preferences are all gone, my bookmarks disappeared, I can't keep programs launched (problems no longer occur solely when charging, but there's something else wrong with the battery: I left it fully charged, and when I went to boot it up it was dry), and I constantly get shutdown messages, even during a boot. Zapping the PRAM doesn't work, and what I thought was my Norton CD turns out to be the OS9 version.
Any ideas?
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Date: 2004-06-14 03:18 pm (UTC)The Norton disk will still work. You need to run it as the Startup disk and run utilities from it that way. What you do is (when it's off) get a paperclip and stick it in the hole next to the CD tray. That'll eject the tray. Put the CD in and close it. When you hit the power button, immediately press and hold the "C" key until you start up with the system. That will boot from the CD system. It's okay if it's System 9 it'll still repair (hopefully) files on your harddrive.
Also if you can, pop up your keyboard (from the top) and take out the extra memory chip. It should be around the top left corner of the keyboard. If you have an Airport wireless card, take that out, and it's underneath. It may be a bad memory chip. You'll know which one to take out because you can't take out the 128. :) If you have some small screwdrivers or people who recognize computer parts, do it!
There's also something called Open Firmware mode that I have to research some more.
If none of that works, I'll research Firmware and get my friend to send you the OS X Norton. Then, take it to a store or send it down to us. And yeah, get a new battery. :)