Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

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Try resetting the motherboard... have the machine connected to the mains, but the mains power turned OFF (otherwise it's round yours for barbecued f^ckwit)... find the little button near the PRAM battery and hold it down for 1min. Put the mac back together and fire it up holding down apple-shift-P-R (to reset the PRAM).

ok, teens thing didn't work

will try your rab

back in a mo

What do you call the Pope, in a raincoat, editing film in iMovie?

Papal Mac.

can't find the button,where about is it?

do you have another mac? try starting up in target mode and then repair permissions and verify using disk utility. or start up from the install disk and run disk utility from there. if that doesn't sort it then run the hardware test.
once you get it sorted install applejack and run it every month or 2 or when you notice it slowing down at all.

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google is your friend

can't find the button,where about is it?

it's near the front of the machine, remove the side panel. perspex panel then the grey fan casing (it slides out)

edit: o.k you don't need to remove the fan

edit again: maybe you do, that pic is the mid cycle one with 8 ram slots the later one with 4 slots may be in a different place.

try hoovering all the vents too. Sounds too soon to after turning on to be resetting but could be due to broken fan / dust cloggage. Have you checked apple.com/support? It's usually quite useful as a start.

Try cleaning the gunk out of the mouse.

Try going for a walk or reading a book. Computers are shit

Upgrade to a real computer..

grrrrrrrrrrrr, tried everything.
best call someone :(

thanks all 'cept, owen, hippy and mr.clover

I'll fix it for you..

tried dat

Mmmm... try pulling out any extra RAM (ie. just leave the original two modules that came with it - and try reseating these)

Give the inside a good blow.

Everything is good after good blow..

tried removing, then replacing RAM, and gave it a good blow

grrrrrrrrrrrr, tried everything.
best call someone :(

thanks all 'cept, owen, hippy and mr.clover

really? did you do an install of the os?
i bet it's a permissions thing if the hardwear test didn't show anything.

fnckit! it's not my computer, just means i get out of doing anywork today :)
even booting from the original cd, the fans whir like mad.

What did Hardware test say? Everything ok? If so, then re-install the OS, if you're chiming and getting to an Apple screen it shouldn't be too much of an issue (permissions problem of root user, small hardware problem (bad RAM, etc), corrupt OS)...

it wouldn't go past the apple screen.

all was fine last week.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA22543
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL627
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA27810
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL397
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL424

take it to:
http://www.macolytes.co.uk/
cheaper than apple and officially recognised or something....
the mac geniuses recommended them to me ages ago, and I've used them often.

So you can't boot from your OS disk?