sounds like one of the memory sticks is loose, has dirty contacts, or
the slot died.
john
On Jul 5, 2005, at 5:05 PM, dan_A wrote:
Hi All-
I have a Alum-book 12"/865MHz running 10.4.1
This afternoon, after using it for an hour or so I shut it down and
when I turned it back on it wouldn't start up. Black screen. I
tried several times with same result, doing a forced restart each
time... because I couldn't get a bong using startup button. I
inserted DiskWarrior CD and got a start up and went all the way to
the select drive for repair window. When I selected the main drive
I got a black rectangle over the DW window which said, in several
languages, that I have to restart my computer. I hit the restart
button and nothing. Did a forced restart and got a white screen
with text telling me to restart via "mac-reboot" or use a close
down command. I did a reboot and got an error message, which I
stupidly didn't take the time to record, and which basically said
the an enabler could not be found. My first guess is that I have
corrupt PRAM or NVRAM. I tried to reset the PRAM but I'm not sure
that the key set is the same as on some other machines... Option/
Command/P/R. Didn't get any additional bongs. Tried Control/Command/
P/R. No good.
I tried DW again and got it going to repair main drive directory
but a DW message appeared as it was searching for directory info,
forever, which said: running slow because of low memory??? I have
384 megs of RAM, not a lot, but what should be enough. I'm going to
check the memory stick to see if became unseated but it doesn't
seem likely since I've been running well for some time and never
dropped or jarred the machine.
I would appreciate help on what you think might be happening and if
this machine has a key sequence for resetting the PRAM or if that
might even sound like the problem.
dan_A
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