why is it that whenever i clean up my desk, my computer ends up not working?!
now it:
a) crashes on startup, showing the startup screen all corrupted
so i tried starting up from the install cd…
b) crashes on startup from the install cd, bringing up a command line that says “the installer could not launch – restart your computer (exit code 0)”
so i tried taking out all but one of my memory chips…
c) started up fine, but sluggish
so i tried putting all the memory chips back in…
d) starts up fine, but once it finishes starting up it says in several different languages “please restart your computer”
so i tried taking out one of the memory chips that i had put back in…
e) starts up fine, but programs i tried to launch either wouldn’t launch at all, or would crash when they finished launching
so i started up from the install cd and tried to run disk utility to check the disks…
f) started up fine from the install cd, disk utility didn’t find anything
so i tried to start up in single-user mode to run fsck
g) started up, didn’t go into single-user mode, and still had problems launching programs
so i tried taking out my scsi card…
h) starts up fine, but several dialog boxes pop up to say there’s a framework missing
so i tried to ssh into my computer from another mac we have to replace the file…
i) wouldn’t let me ssh into it
so i tried to ssh into the imac from my computer…
j) wouldn’t let me ssh into it
so i checked the system preferences (now launching fine) for my ip address…
k) apparently my computer isn’t recognizing the internet connection
so i tried restarting again…
l) now it sits there with the cursor spinning when it finishes starting up
any ideas? ^^;;;