At 10:52 AM -0500 2/17/2011, Al Poulin wrote:
24" iMac with Snow Leopard, used AppleCare's TechTook Deluxe 3.1.3
on bootable DVD to run hardware checks.
Why? What exactly was wrong with the computer that you felt the need
to do this?
Upon finishing and finding everything normal (skipped surface scan),
the Finder menu's options did nothing. System Preferences did not
open. Used the TTDlx Restart button and that gave me the rainbow
pinwheel.
hum
Forced shutdown with long press of on/off button. Startup with
Option key gave me the hard drive and the Optical disk as choices.
Picked the hard drive and, after a while, things were back to normal.
On a second attempt at using TTDlx, did not see its Restart button,
but the Finder Quit command led to another Quit command and then
another readiness to test.
What happened? Is there a more graceful way to restart to the hard drive?
Sounds like that TechTool disc is foo?
I'm not a big fan of TechTool, so .... (Not to disparage the
utility; I've just never had it find or tell me anything I didn't
already know from other obvious symptoms).
- Dan.
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