Re: My Macbook Saved the Day - Sort of

On Jul 23, 3:23 pm, Justin <Jus...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jesus wrote:
On Jul 21, 9:22 pm, Justin <Jus...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Steve de Mena wrote:
Justin wrote:
Hawk wrote:
Justin wrote:
So when I start traveling there's nothing I'd rather have than this 13
inch monster - pun intended.  What should I do?  Have to reply on XP
and  have to fix the damn machine while I should be out experiencing
the place I'm at?  I work in IT, and I had an XP machine die on me
while I was traveling - never again.
Thank god it's 100% impossible for a Mac to die on someone while they
are traveling!  Apple should do more to advertise that fact.
<rolls eyes>
(*>
Just going on about my experience.
The problem I had was solved after reformatting.  So I know it was not a
hardware issue, but an OS fault.
Have you ever had to explain to a sales rep of VP why his year old Dell
is completely toasted?  Its not fun.  Luckily  I'm generally able to
make up some sort of excuse.
I'm sure I could have solved the Dell problems WITHOUT "reformatting"..
 Any time I read that someone had to do that to solve a problem I laugh.
Steve
Yeah, I could have stayed in my hotel room, and talked to Dell tech
support rather than hit the beach, and take a few tours of the island.
Of course "Harry" Khan-Gupta would have told me to reformat at some point.
You don't seem to understand the concept of "traveling."  When one is
away from home the last thing he wants to do is mess around with a PC
while watching TV in another language.
That is simply not an option for me.  The ONE time I absolutely needed
to use that machine and get something out, it died on me.  Blue Screens
- even in safe mode.

*snip*

If it suddenly wasn't able to boot at all and get to the graphical
environment, shouldn't Last Known Good Configuration have been able to
step in and help you out?  I know it's not a guaranteed fix, but did
you at least try it?  That helped me a few times on a few different
machines when people made their machines unbootable.

Tried that - blue screen.
Next?

Odd. I assume repair didn't work either? Do you have any idea *why*
it was blue-screening? Anything change?
.

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