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hrjSitting here waiting on hold whle the AppleCare support person consults with a higher power regarding my laptop's unexpected catatonia. It was fine this morning at the coffee shop. Then just when I was setting up to start sifting through the cookbooks (which involves marking them off in a new column of the database as "deaccessioned") I get an "invalid memory access" message and can get no farther than "open firmware" (which I've never seen before).
Well, after half an hour with tech support, we not much further along, although some interesting things happen when I remove the extra RAM chip (i.e., without it, all I get is a black screen -- no "open firmware", no nothing) but put it back in and at least I'm back to the "illegal instruction" types of messages. So it's off to the friendly neighborhood Apple Genius Bar to see if they can make heads or tails of it -- otherwise I'll have to send it in for major surgery.
Sigh. At least I have two computers so I won't go completely mental.
Well, after half an hour with tech support, we not much further along, although some interesting things happen when I remove the extra RAM chip (i.e., without it, all I get is a black screen -- no "open firmware", no nothing) but put it back in and at least I'm back to the "illegal instruction" types of messages. So it's off to the friendly neighborhood Apple Genius Bar to see if they can make heads or tails of it -- otherwise I'll have to send it in for major surgery.
Sigh. At least I have two computers so I won't go completely mental.
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Date: 2006-06-12 02:14 pm (UTC)