We may be talking apples and oranges here, but about three months ago, I had
a similar problem with my seven-year-old lampshade. I took it to the Apple
doctor here in Bowling Green and the man told me the the motherboard was
fried but the hard drive was okay. He sold me a FireWire cable for
Thanks to all. I'm running Panther, which won't
do the firewire transfer, however.
Suzanne
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Thanks. That is exactly what I did and it seems to work fine even
with only 512 ram.
Shawn
On Sep 22, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
Shawn,
I did end up reinstalling the system (and all it's upgrades) and now
it's working fine.
Dan
To whom ever gets this, I've been scouring
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Subject: Re: [MacGroup] old lampshade imac problem
Thanks to all. I'm running Panther, which
To whom ever gets this, I've been scouring the web trying to solve the
problem as described by Dan who posted on your site a while ago.
I'm have the same problem and wonder if Dan or anyone else found a
solution.
Thanks
S. Todd
Dan's original post:
I have an older lampshade iMac that was
Shawn,
I did end up reinstalling the system (and all it's upgrades) and now
it's working fine.
Dan
To whom ever gets this, I've been scouring the web trying to solve
the problem as described by Dan who posted on your site a while ago.
I'm have the same problem and wonder if Dan or anyone
My lampshade is sick and won't start up. I can't
even start up from a disk because I can't get the
drawer open.
I'd like to get some old photos off of it before
it retires for good. Do I need to take it to the vet?
Suzanne Blake
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Subject: Re: [MacGroup] old lampshade imac problem
My lampshade is sick and won't start up. I can't
even start up from a disk because I can't get the
drawer open.
I'd like to get some old photos off of it before
it retires for good. Do I need to take it to the vet?
Suzanne Blake
Typically when I've seen this in Tiger, the issue has been either a
corrupt Finder plist or a corrupt loginwindow plist.
To resolve the issue, you'l have to either boot in Single User Mode
(SUM) or boot to some other drive.
Using the SUM method, power on the computer and hold down
