Apr 18
Near Death Experience
My new iBook arrived last week while I was onsite in Detroit. We cracked it open after I got home and transferred the contents of my previous iBook.. everything is good.. Apple has done a great job for people moving to a new Mac.
Sat morning i did a bit more on getting it setup and shut it down. We went out for the afternoon.. when we got home I popped in the 1G ram stick.. put it back together and pressed the power button…
nothing.. nilch.. zip.. nadda…
not so good
strip it, take the ram out, reassemble, power
still nothing
shit
really, really not good
(this is where title comes from).. ok.. i said “near” didn’t I… read on
ok.. gotta call apple… i could use the other iBook.. except that Nancy’s already done a fresh install since the new one was up & running fine already. Anyway… look in the manual at the trouble shooting section first… nothing applies.. they give an URL to Apple’s service site.. try it.. (no.. we’re far from a one computer household) hmm.. “if your iBook won;t power on”.. worth a try… apparently the Power Management Unit can get confused.. perhaps by wome errant static or cosmic ray when I put the ram in?.. press Shift-Control-Option-Power with the computer powered down. Wait 5 sec.. press power.. IT’S ALIVE!!!!
Nice…
So everything is good now.. i’m just in the process of making the final tweaks to the new iBook.