Mein Computer ist kaput!
Hmmm, an unfortunate sequence of events occurred yesterday which included the seeming death of my trusty iMac G5. I left it alone until this morning when I woke up early to troubleshoot, and upon my first Google search discovered that the symptoms are very common for a particular (and expensive) hardware issue.
Short of bringing it in to be repaired, there's some poking around I can do within the computer's innards checking for loose connections and hard resetting the PMU and NVRAM. But those are a last ditch effort to avoid the expensive repair that will most likely be needed.
For you resident Mac experts, I am experiencing the issue where the system has a hard crash (frozen mouse, but error detection fails to recognize the kernel panic) and upon reboot I get the start up sound along with the fans running on high but with no video.
Thankfully, no matter how bad this seems it is highly unlikely I'll experience any data loss; at most I lost the longish LiveJournal entry I was working on. I can breathe easy about my data being safe although this venture is sure to be frustrating, expensive, and just plain came at a very bad time when I was preparing to sell this computer to my parents to replace their ancient Snow iMac to help fund the purchase of a laptop for Korea.
Oh well, with this repair done they will be getting a computer (hopefully) free from one of the only issues this model seems to have. Good deal for them, less so for me. I suppose from a certain point of view, this couldn't have come at a better time since my Division III is finished, all my work is over, and when my parents get my repaired computer it will be as good as new.
But still: bleh.
Short of bringing it in to be repaired, there's some poking around I can do within the computer's innards checking for loose connections and hard resetting the PMU and NVRAM. But those are a last ditch effort to avoid the expensive repair that will most likely be needed.
For you resident Mac experts, I am experiencing the issue where the system has a hard crash (frozen mouse, but error detection fails to recognize the kernel panic) and upon reboot I get the start up sound along with the fans running on high but with no video.
Thankfully, no matter how bad this seems it is highly unlikely I'll experience any data loss; at most I lost the longish LiveJournal entry I was working on. I can breathe easy about my data being safe although this venture is sure to be frustrating, expensive, and just plain came at a very bad time when I was preparing to sell this computer to my parents to replace their ancient Snow iMac to help fund the purchase of a laptop for Korea.
Oh well, with this repair done they will be getting a computer (hopefully) free from one of the only issues this model seems to have. Good deal for them, less so for me. I suppose from a certain point of view, this couldn't have come at a better time since my Division III is finished, all my work is over, and when my parents get my repaired computer it will be as good as new.
But still: bleh.