My Mac

[PepperElf]

o sorry, was thinking it was like my bf's g4 desktop, where you can pop the side open

man that is weird then

[Drakstern]

clean their insides. (dust and all).

I've always found cleaning dust to be counterproductive.

[Bliss]

See if the mac guy has a disc of TechTool pro he can lend you, it's pretty easy to use, to boot from it just insert it and then restart the mac and hold C when you hear the bong... it can test HDD and ram, plus other stuff

[Broomjockey]

See if the mac guy has a disc of TechTool pro he can lend you,

You're missing the post of "I'm not allowed to do anything." Also, the only time I see him is when he makes a specific visit to the place, so if I did see him, and he didn't have it on him, it'd probably be weeks before I saw him again.

[Chromatix]

One thing you can do without extra tools or opening it: open Disk Utility (in Applications/Utilities) and get info on the drive. There should be a line in there about SMART status - that should be a good indicator of whether it's physically failing or not.

[Broomjockey]

UPDATE!!

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

I have received A NEW iMAC! 24", aluminum and black. I can deal with this.

[Blade_Raver]

You went from an eMac to an iMac... If the issue wasn't already resolved with another replacement, I was going to jokingly say to wait for the oMac to come out.

Alas, I was too late and failed. lol

Congrats on the replacement

[dalesys]

You went from an eMac to an iMac... If the issue wasn't already resolved with another replacement, I was going to jokingly say to wait for the oMac to come out.

Alas, I was too late and failed. lol

Congrats on the replacement

Wouldn't the correct sequence be: eMac, iMac, eMac, iMac, oMac?
Preceded by: Old MacJockey bought the farm...

(and he probably would after suffering that much bait & switch)

[Geek King]

Wouldn't the correct sequence be: eMac, iMac, eMac, iMac, oMac?
Preceded by: Old MacJockey bought the farm...

(and he probably would after suffering that much bait & switch)

Nah...more like aMac, eMac, iMac, oMac, uMac, and sometimes yMac.

[PepperElf]

Hard drive is on its way out, seriously.... Happened to me twice.
Save what you can off the machine, because it's about to have a catastrophic drive failure, which will cause you to lose EVERYTHING.

oy that happened on my first desktop. grinding sounds. Had a new hdd put in & had the old one left behind as file storage. ironically the old drive started working better after that.


and congrats on the new mac