Hi Sam, Yes that was what I was afraid of because whatever homework she had will be lost. But maybe that's a good lesson in itself. As its a G5 iMac, I am presuming it would be no later than Tiger but she doesn't know anyway (she's 12 by the way). I have a copy of Tiger. Thanks, Nick
On 15 Jun 2010, at 18:59, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > Sounds like the OS needs reinstalling, do you have the original disks or a > retail copy of Leopard? > > Sam > > -- > MacAmbulance > Sam Mullen > 07747778022 > [email protected] > > On 15 Jun 2010, at 14:28, Tony Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Nick >> >> On;y one man for the the job and that is Sam Mullen of MacAmbulance. He'll >> sort you out. >> >> Tony >> >> On 15 Jun 2010, at 13:28, Nicholas Holt wrote: >> >> A friend's daughter started to play around with iTunes while Software update >> was downloading/installing some files and there was a kernel panic. >> The black screen with lots of white type came up with the message to switch >> off or restart but every time she does that the same screen comes back. >> She has switched it off at the wall, then held in the power button for >> 30secs (as suggested by an Apple genius) and then tried switching on again >> but the same screen comes back. >> She also tried resetting the PRAM to no avail. >> It's a PowerPC iMac (probably running Tiger or earlier). Probably not backed >> up either but if anyone has any ideas how to get it up and running again I'd >> appreciate it. >> Many thanks, Nick >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
