happy pre-birthday to me

[mousapelli]

I have killed the laptop.

and by the way, i HATE returning from someplace to find strange Facilities workers in my room, even when I'm not already pissed off because I'm returning from the computer center sans computer.

I've no idea whether he noticed Mulciber or not. He didn't comment on him during his waffling about whether or not F&O would pay for my laptop charger replacement, which is due to the nibbling of rampant mice (the free-range ones, not the ex-roomates), so maybe not. Which is hilarious because he put mouse sticky-traps in half a dozen places around my room.

But back to the point, the laptop won't turn on. Just won't. No sad mac face, no torn folder, no nothing. There was a suicide note when I turned it on earlier, a page of code I'd never seen before that ended in "type mac-boot if you want boot to continue", which I can only suppose is ibook for "Goodbye Cruel World!" since it is the last thing it said before ending it all.

I'd like to hope the Computing Center can fix this, but since they have problems with things like "keeping extra laptop chargers in stock", i'm not feeling real up at the moment.

Comments

Sounds like a Firmware issue...

[mckenzee.livejournal.com]

There is a way to boot directly into Open Firmware that I don't remember right now, (you hold down Command-Option-O-F or something like that) but you should find it on Apple.com/support.

When is says "type mac-boot if you want boot to continue", you should type "mac-boot" and hit enter.

Good luck!

Re: Sounds like a Firmware issue...

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

see, it did that itself the first time i started it up, and I did, and it tried to start up, but then it crashed again halfway through, and the problem now is that it won't turn on at all.

So I can't really do anything, if it won't turn on. thanks though :(

[wisdomeagle]

Here from metaquotes to say I am very sorry for your loss. I am sure it went to a better place. Unless of course it comes back, in which case it's just getting reincarnated as itself, which, karmically, is probably not such a step up.

[scriptrix.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry your computer is dead.

Maybe it's something wrong with all iBooks, and we should petition Apple for money and free stuff? My iBook keeps killing Safari and eating hard drive space for no good reason, and I think it's only a matter of time before it pulls kernel panic on me.

Er, you could force open the CD tray and see if you can boot from a disc, but I doubt it'll work. Maybe you should crack it open and see if hardware's gone bad; it sounds like a really bad hardware problem, but I don't know what.

[caira.livejournal.com]

Um, hi. Just popped over via metaquotes. Anyway, my PBG3 started doing a similar thing a few months back; turned out my hard drive was totally, beyond-repair screwed. I couldn't even get to that code page without booting off a system X CD. No idea what might work here --- try booting off an OS 9 CD if the iBook's old enough and you have one, and see what happens. (An OS X CD will probably just get you the same screen, but it might still be worth a shot.)

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

ha, well, there's going to be a call to apple eventually no matter what, I think, because i can't go on being laptopless for much longer.

It's funny though, mine really hasn't had any major problems in the two years I've had it, other than the vertical line disease it caught last summer. This is the first time it's done something truly horrible.

sigh. the computer center's got it at the moment, so god only knows what they are doing to it.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

that's what I'm worried about...i've had people tell me that it's a random problem that's fixed right away, and others say that it means the Hard Drive is beyond repair.

I suppose that's what Computing Services is going to try, although who even knows. I can fix just about anything on my macs, but 'can't turn on' is slightly beyond my expertise.