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seraph · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 6:14 am Post subject:

just yesterday I experienced the first block of the motherboard of my G4. Fortunately a friend of mine (a Mac technician) told me what to do:
open it
take the lythium battery off
push the reset button of the motherboard for at least 30 seconds
put the battery back on
close it down
turn it on
set the clock
WOW, it was working again.
I had kicked my ass, metaphorically, all afternoon for not backing anything up but now I have been warned Exclamation

aquanaut · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 1:12 pm Post subject:

i don't understand. I always thought that the HD in a mac will not be erased even if the system goes down. Disk Warrior could not repair anything?

seraph · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:11 pm Post subject:

mosc · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:43 pm Post subject:

ManuMontevideo · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 12:39 am Post subject:

seraph, test it:

reboot with the apple + S (single user) , wait until appear a large list of commands in black background, when the list stopped write this:

sbin/fsck -f (+enter)

let it work, if everything goes well, you'll see a messagge like this:

the (your hard disk) volume appears to be OK.

if it does not appear this message, repeat again (sbin/fsck -f).

Like I tell you now your volume appears to be OK,

write reboot.

Now the panther is with you, go to utilities and open disk utilities, select your volume and repair permissions.

And thats All