It did it again tonight. Maybe I should just put out to sleep rather than power ir down.
steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: >on 2013-12-31 1:51 Larry Colen wrote >> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 01:33:31PM -0700, steve harley wrote: >>> is it possible you also did a safe boot >>> >(shift-restart) which clears caches and checks the disk? > >> I did that, and it didn't help. the machine acted up again today and >I misremembered, >> did a ctrl-command-v then p on power up. I got a verbose boot >(showing kernel messages) >> and then it booted fine. > >maybe you didn't even reset pram (command-option-p-r); just command-v >does a >verbose boot, but to my knowledge this mode does not modify anything > >my few gray screens have always been a bad disk or a serious hardware >problem >(bad solder on video board) > >i suppose you have seen Apple's standard troubleshooting doc: > ><http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2570> > >and there's primer here on the boot stages and what a gray screen >actually >means (except the references are bad links): > ><http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/17499/what-should-you-do-if-your-os-x-system-fails-to-boot-being-stuck-at-gray-screen> > >beyond that, since it's new, i would probably just ask for a >replacement either >via AppleCare or a "genius" at an apple store (requires appointment); >both will >want to diagnose it first, so the latter may be faster if you are face >to face >with someone who trusts your narrative of what you've tried; otoh, an >Apple >Store isn't likely to have last year's model in stock … > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >follow the directions. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
