September 02, 2003

My Mac is Broken!

Bah, this morning when I booted up my to-this-date-kick-ass Powerbook G4 and the screen was completely black, and started printing out work emails that I had previously printed out - even though I hadn't logged in. Weird! I rebooted and got to the desktop, went to work, and after a few minutes, the screen went black. I rebooted, black. Rebooted, black, repeat, repeat, repeat. Tried zapping the P-RAM and a bunch of other key combos I found on Apple's web site- still black! I hooked it up to an external monitor, screen was black. I managed to get it to show me the screen once more. I poked around the system for a few minutes- then the screen on both the powerbook AND the external monitor went black. I called my Mac genius friend, Brian and he got me to try a few things, but the screen stayed black! I called Apple, they got me to try a few things, but lo, the screen remained black. They told me that either my video card, or the cables to the video card are kaput. I had to send it 400 kilometers away for service. I backed everything up before I sent it off. The computer is behaving fine, just the video, so I booted it in target mode on my boyfriend's G4 tower and saved my files. I'll be sharing my boyfriend's PC at home until my Powerbook comes back, and using I don't know what at work. All the pop-ups in Windows are really annoying. I wish the OS would stfu and let me do my shiznaz.

Posted by Guinevere at September 2, 2003 07:30 PM

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