Sick Mac
Friday, September 8, 2006
It apparently is to be a very brief relationship with my new Mac. Problems that started pretty much when I first booted it up but flared in early August have led to a series of tech moves that has made things worse. Now, instead of only randomly powering down, I have startup problems where I [...]
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It apparently is to be a very brief relationship with my new Mac. Problems that started pretty much when I first booted it up but flared in early August have led to a series of tech moves that has made things worse. Now, instead of only randomly powering down, I have startup problems where I get a Matrix-like screen with an increasing number of vertical lines. My because-I-have-to workaround is to zap the PRAM (p-r-alt-command) four times to get it to reboot.
So, I’m two weeks into the semester and the machine I was expecting to get me through an entire degree has stumbled out of the gate. I’m going to spend the weekend backing up files and getting my old laptop, a Windows XP machine without wireless, ready for play. Great waste of a weekend.
sigh …
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Is it related to the random shutdown problems mentioned here?
http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34233
Also see: http://www.macbookrandomshutdown.com/
That’s it exactly. I registered my story with that latter link. Thanks for the tip.
That yielded some results. So far, so good with the suggested fix for my vertical lines problem.
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