Stupid Powerbook!

[giza]

So, the problems with my Powerbook's hard disk that I spoke about before came back with a vengeance last night. My hard disk started spinning down randomly which made it a bit difficult to get work done. I tried resetting the PRAM but didn't have any luck. After not being able to boot the system at all, I tried booting off of my installation DVD and running Disk Utility, only to be greeted with this:





Note the lack of a hard disk in that list. :-)

I decided to sleep on it, and when I woke up I decided to call the Applecare phone number. the tech on the other end walked me through resetting the Power Management Unit (PMU). This seemed to fix the problem, since when I rebooted and started up Disk Utility, the disk came back. I ran a "Repair Disk" and everything turned out okay. I've been using the Powerbook today, and it seems okay so far. *crosses his paws*


In other news, my parents stopped by to visit me this evening. They didn't understand how a UPS worked, so I demoed it for them by unplugging the unit and holding up the disconnected plug while my computer continued to operate. :-)

Comments

[cyriljackal.livejournal.com]

Macs NEEEEEEEEVER have problems. ;x)

[giza.livejournal.com]

Just like Windoze boxen never get infected with spyware. :-P

[cyriljackal.livejournal.com]

Oh only if its your parents though, lotsa virii too.

[giza.livejournal.com]

That's why I made my parents buy a Mac.

[cyriljackal.livejournal.com]

LOLOCAUST!!!

[tgeller.livejournal.com]

Could you shrink that graphic's width about 100 pixels? It's fucking up my friends page. KTHXBYE. :-P

[giza.livejournal.com]

Er, and I thought was was being considerate by having the graphic less than 800 pixels wide. Oh well, I just stuck it in an LJ-CUT.

[tgeller.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I think the matter is that my Friends page has a wider left-hand border than your "home" journal page. So it's best to cut graphics back by an extra one or two hundred pixels.

[thraxarious.livejournal.com]

UPSes are fun.. great to demo, till their inscescent beeping gets annoying... Kinda like showing how a raid cluster works by yanking a drive..


That reminds me of when someone at Carfax was showing off the UPSes there to some financial people... in the server room, he pulled the large circuit on/off switch... which the UPSes decided to interpret as "oh.. we should shut down now." since it wasn't an actual power outtage event.