bassmonsta
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I have a 2 month old 20" 2.1 GHz G5 iMac with i-sight, running 10.4.5 (I think) and 1.5 GHz of ram.
my screen froze a couple of days ago, and could not escape and had to switch of with the power button. Before i did however, I noticed that my bluetooth icon had a line through it. weird.
when I tried to startup again, I get get no chimes, my keyboard and mouse dont respond, and im left with a black screen. I hear internal noise and my sleep light is on permanently, but after a couple of minutes my fan goes into overdrive.
as my keyboard is inop, i cant use any of the keyboard combos to reset anything, or boot from my install disk. a couple of times the fan has stopped after a few minutes, and I get a grey screen with spinning gear, but it goes no further.
a couple of times the machine has booted up fully: once with the install disk so i ran disk utility. the drive repaired 'ok' and displayed that the s.m.a.r.t status was verified, and allowed a permissions repair also.
The second time, i got to my desktop and clicked on the bluetooth icon at the top of the display, but this revealed that bluetooth ' is not available '.
on opening system preferences i discovered that there is no bluetooth icon under hardware.
when i have tried turning the power back on, i have first unplugged the power lead to reset the smu, but to no avail.
Apple think it is a hardware issue, but i am not so sure.
should also point out that this machine is solely for pro tools audio recording, and as such, does not like having bluetooth activated.
If i could get the machine to boot, i would upgrade to 10.4.6 to see if it cures the issue. alternatively, if i could boot from the install disk, i would wipe the drive and start anew, as all my data is on an external drive.
THANK GOD FOR MY 12" POWERBOOK (Mrs Robertson)
I dont want to send this away for a 2-3 week holiday as it is so new.
any ideas
joe
my screen froze a couple of days ago, and could not escape and had to switch of with the power button. Before i did however, I noticed that my bluetooth icon had a line through it. weird.
when I tried to startup again, I get get no chimes, my keyboard and mouse dont respond, and im left with a black screen. I hear internal noise and my sleep light is on permanently, but after a couple of minutes my fan goes into overdrive.
as my keyboard is inop, i cant use any of the keyboard combos to reset anything, or boot from my install disk. a couple of times the fan has stopped after a few minutes, and I get a grey screen with spinning gear, but it goes no further.
a couple of times the machine has booted up fully: once with the install disk so i ran disk utility. the drive repaired 'ok' and displayed that the s.m.a.r.t status was verified, and allowed a permissions repair also.
The second time, i got to my desktop and clicked on the bluetooth icon at the top of the display, but this revealed that bluetooth ' is not available '.
on opening system preferences i discovered that there is no bluetooth icon under hardware.
when i have tried turning the power back on, i have first unplugged the power lead to reset the smu, but to no avail.
Apple think it is a hardware issue, but i am not so sure.
should also point out that this machine is solely for pro tools audio recording, and as such, does not like having bluetooth activated.
If i could get the machine to boot, i would upgrade to 10.4.6 to see if it cures the issue. alternatively, if i could boot from the install disk, i would wipe the drive and start anew, as all my data is on an external drive.
THANK GOD FOR MY 12" POWERBOOK (Mrs Robertson)
I dont want to send this away for a 2-3 week holiday as it is so new.
any ideas
joe
