Senior moment. Its normally connected all the time but had used it away from home the other day and hadn't put the plug back in on return.
Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/05/2011, at 9:23 AM, cm wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > > I'm just curious to know why you didn't plug the MacBook Pro adapter in when > you noticed the battery was almost drained. > > Cheers, > Carlo > > On 2011-05-10, at 08:54, Adrian Skehan wrote: > >> >> Good morning all, >> >> Yesterday I ran the latest apple update (iPhoto and Font) on my iMac and >> MacBook Pro, the iMac update went OK but I was called away before the >> MacBook Pro (Intel OS 10.6.7) had finished so I left it running, on my >> return I found that I had neglected to connect the external power to the >> thing and the battery was all but totally discharged, when I tried to shut >> it down I got endless error messages saying that certain files could not be >> accessed (didn't think to write it down) and had to force the shut down via >> the start button. the consequence of all this is that it wont boot up past >> the grey screen and the ever rotating wheel. >> >> Zapping the Pram had no effect. >> >> DiskWarrior 4.3 reported the following: >> • 5 files had a directory entry with an incorrect text encoding value that >> was repaired. >> • 5 folders had a directory entry with an incorrect custom icon flag that >> was repaired. >> • Incorrect values in the Volume Information were repaired. >> >> A second DW scan came up with No Errors. >> >> Booted ut holding down the Command and S keys. Ran the FSCK -FY this showed >> No Errors. >> >> Checked the Volume Structure, File Structure and Surface Scan for bad block >> using TechTools Pro 5.0.7, No Errors found. >> >> Looking at it in Target mode everything looks to be in order. >> >> Can anyone suggest something else I can try before I resort to reinstalling >> the system please. >> >> >> >> >> Adrian Skehan >> adrianske...@me.com >> >> >> Mac OS X v10.6.7 Snow Leopard >> Model: MacBook Pro >> Processor: Intel >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >> > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
