AAAAAAUIIIIIGH.
Jul. 28th, 2006 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sepdetSo, like.
When a power cable doesn't make good contact and goes flicky-flicky a lot on the laptop, STOP USING IT.
*pats poor iBook*
I wondered why Safari started crashing last week. Well, I was lazy, switched to Firefox.
I went to print out the first half of my M.A. exam -- due monday, and no I'm still not done -- and the Evil Beachball of Wait And See appeared.
After some futzing, I gave up and restarted. I'd just saved, after all.
No reboot.
No reboot.
Really, honest to gosh, no reboot.
Two hours and a pilgrimage to tha Apple store later, i have managed to retrieve and upload the file to istad for retrieval on another computer, and it is determined that I have some software corruption in the OS, and that power cable shorts are bad for the HD, and that the iBook isn't going to work again until i do a fresh system install. (This should hopefully not affect apps or documents.)
Unfortunately, my Software Restore disk is for the Powerbook, not the iBook, and I can't seem to find the Restore disk for the iBook. Meh. So I need to take iBook back in and let techs poke at it.
HOWEVER, no time for that; I need to write the last four pages of the exam. I know what I'm doing, it's just slow as molassas.
I managed to stay almost-almost calm telling myself that at worst, I still had two days and could throw something together.
Thank GOODNESS I bought that cheapo iBook last Christmas as my backup computer. I'd gotten in the habit of using it more than the Titanium, for some reason, and had been using it to write the exam, but I'm back on the old Titanium now. *hugs TiBook*
Now, where was I... O.o
When a power cable doesn't make good contact and goes flicky-flicky a lot on the laptop, STOP USING IT.
*pats poor iBook*
I wondered why Safari started crashing last week. Well, I was lazy, switched to Firefox.
I went to print out the first half of my M.A. exam -- due monday, and no I'm still not done -- and the Evil Beachball of Wait And See appeared.
After some futzing, I gave up and restarted. I'd just saved, after all.
No reboot.
No reboot.
Really, honest to gosh, no reboot.
Two hours and a pilgrimage to tha Apple store later, i have managed to retrieve and upload the file to istad for retrieval on another computer, and it is determined that I have some software corruption in the OS, and that power cable shorts are bad for the HD, and that the iBook isn't going to work again until i do a fresh system install. (This should hopefully not affect apps or documents.)
Unfortunately, my Software Restore disk is for the Powerbook, not the iBook, and I can't seem to find the Restore disk for the iBook. Meh. So I need to take iBook back in and let techs poke at it.
HOWEVER, no time for that; I need to write the last four pages of the exam. I know what I'm doing, it's just slow as molassas.
I managed to stay almost-almost calm telling myself that at worst, I still had two days and could throw something together.
Thank GOODNESS I bought that cheapo iBook last Christmas as my backup computer. I'd gotten in the habit of using it more than the Titanium, for some reason, and had been using it to write the exam, but I'm back on the old Titanium now. *hugs TiBook*
Now, where was I... O.o
