Re: Talk me out of selling my DV824!!

Hi Jeff,
When my first one went I tried all kinds of key presses at power up to
try and get some kind of error message. The boot up disk didn't
help. Finally I got a very weird screen with VERY strange text. It
seems like I inadvertantly got into some private programmers mode ( I
wrote this all down months ago, but can't find the notes... I'll keep
looking). The last line of this screen had an error message and when
I googled this message I found quite a few links and it seemed fairly
common. It was a file corruption issue that usually the Mac can
repair itself, but not always. It gave a few options to try before
doing a total reformat, but they didn't work, so I had to reformat the
drive and start fresh. The drive was nowhere near full (maybe 15 gigs
used on an 80 gig drive). I keep very little on these Macs - Boom
Recorder, Sound Studio, Microsoft Office for Mac, some jpg photos and
the software it came with. Possibly it was a virus, I get cds and
dvds from post all the time and I do go on line with the wifi link. I
originally thought the drive failed, but once I did a fresh re-install
it seems fine. I'll go through the 1000 of notes on my desk and find
the ones I scribbled on when I did this a couple of months ago.
Billy Sarokin



On Apr 9, 11:23 pm, Jeff Wexler <j...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1176169654.254300.247...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Billy Sarokin" <bigm...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Both kept slowing down until they wouldn't boot. It took many tries
to reload them from the original Apple DVDs (one was and Intel Mac,
the other the original Mini). There was a specific message which is
fairly common but I can't remember it off the top of my head. I had
to do a full clean install. Very time consuming.

Please do try and remember what actually happened --- I have never heard
of any problem such as you describe with any of the Macs I have had (or
with anyone else's for that matter) --- quite odd.

I have had several experiences helping people out with their Macs that
have exhibited some of the symptoms you mention and in all these cases
the problem was the internal hard drive being full. The Mac OS is VERY
sensitive to this --- you must always have at the very least 1gb of free
drive space otherwise the machine and all of its applications will
behave very badly. Many people have filled their drives unknowingly well
past this limit --- the last person I helped out with this situation has
only 160 kb available on an 80 gb drive!

Regards, Jeff Wexler


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