Post by jude on Dec 30, 2007 18:04:42 GMT -5
After I returned from visiting my Mom for a few days over Christmas, I was using my Mac for a couple of hours, took a break, and then when I tried to start it up again, nothing happened! No chime, no noise at all, and the power button wouldn' even light up.
I tried all the diagnostic stuff, changing the power cord, changing the outlet, taking out sticks of RAM, changing the graphics card, resting the CUDA button, changing the PRAM battery, unhooking all the peripherals including the keyboard and mouse..nothing worked.
Of course, the warranty ran out this March...
So, it's in the shop, and I am worried sick that they are going to change out the logic board and/or reformat my hard drives. My Mac is a Dual Processor (with both on the logic board) and dual boot (OS X and OS 9), and I'm afraid that whatever they do to "fix' it is going to get rid of the capabilities that I want it for. If they put in a logic board that doesn't allow dual booting, I am screwed because much of my software (including most of my old games) won't run under OS X. Or if they put in one that requires OS X 10.4 or higher, I am screwed because I need to use OS X 10.3 to do my playtesting (plus I hate 10.4!)
I think the problem is either the power supply or the pwer button circuit board, which should be an easy fix, but the tech at the Apple store, although making a note to try to change out the power supply first, also wrote that the logic board could be the problem (I don't think so), and only grudgingly noted that it could be the power button. He wouldn't write on the work order that my logic board allows dual booting or that it has dual processors, so I am worried sick! I think they are sending it back to Apple to work on, so I can only wait and bite my nails.
I'm using Capybara's Mac right now, which was my older Mac, but I can do my playtesting on it (or use some of my more demanding software), and most of my stuff is in my Mac that's in for repairs. Luckily, I did a pretty extensive backup about 3 weeks ago, but I want my Mac back!
Jude
I tried all the diagnostic stuff, changing the power cord, changing the outlet, taking out sticks of RAM, changing the graphics card, resting the CUDA button, changing the PRAM battery, unhooking all the peripherals including the keyboard and mouse..nothing worked.
Of course, the warranty ran out this March...
So, it's in the shop, and I am worried sick that they are going to change out the logic board and/or reformat my hard drives. My Mac is a Dual Processor (with both on the logic board) and dual boot (OS X and OS 9), and I'm afraid that whatever they do to "fix' it is going to get rid of the capabilities that I want it for. If they put in a logic board that doesn't allow dual booting, I am screwed because much of my software (including most of my old games) won't run under OS X. Or if they put in one that requires OS X 10.4 or higher, I am screwed because I need to use OS X 10.3 to do my playtesting (plus I hate 10.4!)
I think the problem is either the power supply or the pwer button circuit board, which should be an easy fix, but the tech at the Apple store, although making a note to try to change out the power supply first, also wrote that the logic board could be the problem (I don't think so), and only grudgingly noted that it could be the power button. He wouldn't write on the work order that my logic board allows dual booting or that it has dual processors, so I am worried sick! I think they are sending it back to Apple to work on, so I can only wait and bite my nails.
I'm using Capybara's Mac right now, which was my older Mac, but I can do my playtesting on it (or use some of my more demanding software), and most of my stuff is in my Mac that's in for repairs. Luckily, I did a pretty extensive backup about 3 weeks ago, but I want my Mac back!
Jude
