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Toanjii
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Hello everyone.
I'm a new user to mac. Please bear with me if I sound stupid.
I was using Software Update on my brand new 15.2" 1.5Ghz 1GB/80GB/SD Aluminium Powerbook.
I only installed the 10 out of 12 items it recommended me (everything except for Airport update and iSight update). One of the items installed was OS X 10.3.5. I believe the PB came with 10.3.4.
After it had downloaded the files, installed, and optimised the HD, it asked me to click to restart so I did.
It then started to shutdown the computer but got stuck at a screen with only the wallpaper and the mouse pointer (which was movable). The finder, dock and icons have disappeared.
It got stucked at this screen for about 1 minute. So I decided to force restart (ctrl+apple+power button).
It restarted fine and I ran Software update again and installed Airport update, iSight update and 2 new Security updates that wasn't there before.
This time it restarted without any probs.
After this, I ran Repair Permission from the OSX CD and it found no problems.
And now to my point - "finally" I hear you say .
#1: I was wondering if there is anything else I should do to check if any damage/corruption has been done.
#2: Do you think I have done any damage?
#3: If there is, what can I do to repair it?
#4: Did I restart too soon? Should I have waited longer? (this is for the future).
#5: Is there anyway of finding out why it got stuck on that screen?
Sorry for so many questions because I have just bought this laptop solely for a medical imaging analysis project. Each sequence takes a long time to render so even if I save between every sequence, it would be a pain if the machine should crash. Therefore I would like to fix any corruption/problem before starting my project.
Thanks heaps heaps in advance!!!!
Toan.
I'm a new user to mac. Please bear with me if I sound stupid.
I was using Software Update on my brand new 15.2" 1.5Ghz 1GB/80GB/SD Aluminium Powerbook.
I only installed the 10 out of 12 items it recommended me (everything except for Airport update and iSight update). One of the items installed was OS X 10.3.5. I believe the PB came with 10.3.4.
After it had downloaded the files, installed, and optimised the HD, it asked me to click to restart so I did.
It then started to shutdown the computer but got stuck at a screen with only the wallpaper and the mouse pointer (which was movable). The finder, dock and icons have disappeared.
It got stucked at this screen for about 1 minute. So I decided to force restart (ctrl+apple+power button).
It restarted fine and I ran Software update again and installed Airport update, iSight update and 2 new Security updates that wasn't there before.
This time it restarted without any probs.
After this, I ran Repair Permission from the OSX CD and it found no problems.
And now to my point - "finally" I hear you say .
#1: I was wondering if there is anything else I should do to check if any damage/corruption has been done.
#2: Do you think I have done any damage?
#3: If there is, what can I do to repair it?
#4: Did I restart too soon? Should I have waited longer? (this is for the future).
#5: Is there anyway of finding out why it got stuck on that screen?
Sorry for so many questions because I have just bought this laptop solely for a medical imaging analysis project. Each sequence takes a long time to render so even if I save between every sequence, it would be a pain if the machine should crash. Therefore I would like to fix any corruption/problem before starting my project.
Thanks heaps heaps in advance!!!!
Toan.