Fsck this.
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cherryMy fish died, my car needs the CV shaft replaced, and my computer is beyond messed.
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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Re: Breathe. =)
Date: 2004-06-14 07:42 pm (UTC)Those errors sound about right... but I don't know any more about Norton repairs. :( I'll ask around a bit more with the knowledge you gave!
Re: Breathe. =)
Date: 2004-06-15 06:05 am (UTC)As a point of curiousity, search engines kill it, too. Just trying to type something into the search bar crashes Safari.
Re: Breathe. =)
Date: 2004-06-15 09:47 am (UTC)I searched Norton, and it looks like I`m going to have to do a volume recover, like it says http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/num.nsf/14e8ad63a2133be2852569680048a511/d08b50f3ef357863882566b400739dff?OpenDocument&prod=Norton%20Utilities%20for%20Macintosh&ver=6.x&src=sg&pcode=num&svy=&csm=no (my keyboard is messed, and I can`t find the html tags, all apologies).
Problem is, I haven`t been running filesaver, so I`m going to lose a lot of stuff, I think.
Is this an advisable course of actionÉ
(Am also missing the question mark.)
Re: Breathe. =)
Date: 2004-06-15 04:46 pm (UTC)If you can find ANYone with a firewire port, ask if you can boot your computer in firwire disk mode and transfer some files. You do this by plugging in your two computers (via firewire cable) while yours is still off, and start yours up by holding down the "t" key until you get a big orange firewire symbol floating on the screen. Then the other computer just thinks of yours as an external harddrive.
Re: Breathe. =)
Date: 2004-06-17 12:55 pm (UTC)If I can avoid reformatting my HD, I'd really like to. I'd hate to lose everything.
Re: Breathe. =)
Date: 2004-06-17 02:04 pm (UTC)