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WantMyMiniBack
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I have a 3-month old Mac Mini running Tiger. Kept getting "popups" from QuickUpdate telling me I could update "garage band" and who knows what else. In particular, there was an upgrade of Mac OS for Intel that maybe I should have looked into first. There is also a DVD in the slot with Adobe Photoshop. I hit "upgrade", twenty minutes later get "Installation Successful" please restart.
She chimes happily. A partially eaten Apple shows up in grey, and then an infinite amount of time later the little "sun" is still circling around. I tried reboot, nope. I tried starting up with Option, nope; with C; nope; with Option+Command+Shift+Delete; nope. So I zapped the pram -- unplugged everything from the back, held the power button on and inserted power. Waited for a few seconds and powered up. Same thing as before, except now the fan is frighteningly loud.
I'm thinking of dismantling the Mini to get the DVD out somehow and trying with an OS Boot disk in place. Any other suggestions?
Regards, John
p.s. Oh, that reminds me. Always do a back-up before you install software from Apple. I know I wish I did... :-(
She chimes happily. A partially eaten Apple shows up in grey, and then an infinite amount of time later the little "sun" is still circling around. I tried reboot, nope. I tried starting up with Option, nope; with C; nope; with Option+Command+Shift+Delete; nope. So I zapped the pram -- unplugged everything from the back, held the power button on and inserted power. Waited for a few seconds and powered up. Same thing as before, except now the fan is frighteningly loud.
I'm thinking of dismantling the Mini to get the DVD out somehow and trying with an OS Boot disk in place. Any other suggestions?
Regards, John
p.s. Oh, that reminds me. Always do a back-up before you install software from Apple. I know I wish I did... :-(