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- Macbook Pro Late 2009 - 4GB Ram, 2.5 GHz, Snow Leopard
My Powermac g4 Running Tiger has been behaving erratically lately. When I shut it down, it kernel panics. When I boot it up, there is a question mark in my dock by the name of "iMovie HD" when I only have iMovie 3. It takes about 5-6 minutes to boot up...and before I had all these problems, there was an absolute major glitch. I booted it up, the startup chime sounded weird, like distorted. I heard a ton of noise coming from the harddrive and it booted into this weird version of Tiger. The login text, instead of saying "So and so's Computer" said "E84SS49FTDS4"
I logged into my account and it displayed this glitched up version of the "Aqua" BG. My Dock was all Question Marks and they all said "DMG337"
I, as you know, can't open up question marks, so I didn't.
The Apple Menu seemed fine, but instead of the application name next to the Apple menu, it said "DMG337" and the options on the drop-down were all "RAE754".
The only cursor it displayed was the "Spinning Beach-ball" and I just had enough so I just shut it down.
Any ideas on what to do?? I have plenty of other Mac's, but I don't want to part with this one just quite yet as I have had it for at least 5 years.
I dont have the original OS Disks for it. So dont suggest restoring the OS.
I logged into my account and it displayed this glitched up version of the "Aqua" BG. My Dock was all Question Marks and they all said "DMG337"
I, as you know, can't open up question marks, so I didn't.
The Apple Menu seemed fine, but instead of the application name next to the Apple menu, it said "DMG337" and the options on the drop-down were all "RAE754".
The only cursor it displayed was the "Spinning Beach-ball" and I just had enough so I just shut it down.
Any ideas on what to do?? I have plenty of other Mac's, but I don't want to part with this one just quite yet as I have had it for at least 5 years.
I dont have the original OS Disks for it. So dont suggest restoring the OS.