what's wrong with my system preferences!?!?

nickmcghie · Jan 12, 2003, 06:49 AM

help! i just opened my system preferences today and it looked like this:

nickmcghie · Jan 12, 2003, 06:53 AM

notice that the International preference and Classic preference are strangely missing, and there are four keyboard icons in the 5th row... i don't know why!! can somebody please tell me??

(btw, i'm running 10.2.3 on a 400mhz pismo powerbook g3 with 576 megs of RAM)

jelloshotsrule · Jan 12, 2003, 09:50 AM

you're also missing the "accounts" pane...

at some point, i had no accounts pane and an extra login items in the other row...

i don't know what would "properly" fix it... but i had an unrelated problem with my battery, and i pressed the CUDA (i think that's what it's called) to reset the battery and it ended up fixing my prefs problem

i wouldn't recommend doing this unless someone with more hardware knowledge comes along and says it's cool...

also, what panes are in your prefpanes folders? are there 4 keyboards? is classic, accounts, etc there in the folder itself? if so, then that's the same thing that happened to me basically....

nickmcghie · Jan 12, 2003, 10:29 PM

in my PreferencePanes folder, there is only one Keyboards.prefPanes file, and there is also Classic.prefPanes, Accounts.prefPanes, and Localization.prefPanes (i'm assuming thats the one for the International preferences)... so i have no idea what the problem could be

MrMacMan · Jan 12, 2003, 10:45 PM

Time to re-install 10.2.3, yeah it sucks, but not as much as it could have.

nickmcghie · Jan 12, 2003, 10:53 PM

dang, do i really hafta reinstall? that'd be a bummer... if i do reinstall though, can i just reinstall the system while keeping my application preferences (and all the other stuff in my home folder) intact? cuz it'd be a REAL hassle to be a complete clean reinstall

iJon · Jan 12, 2003, 11:03 PM

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Originally posted by nickmcghie
dang, do i really hafta reinstall? that'd be a bummer... if i do reinstall though, can i just reinstall the system while keeping my application preferences (and all the other stuff in my home folder) intact? cuz it'd be a REAL hassle to be a complete clean reinstall

system prefs is only like 400k. throw it away and see if that helps. you can probably get the accounts.pane and the other panes your missing and replace them in the system folder/

iJon

Jan 12, 2003, 06:49 AM	#1
nickmcghie macrumors regular Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: UCLA	what's wrong with my system preferences!?!? help! i just opened my system preferences today and it looked like this: Attached Thumbnails

Jan 12, 2003, 09:50 AM	#3
jelloshotsrule macrumors Demi-God Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: serendipity	you're also missing the "accounts" pane... at some point, i had no accounts pane and an extra login items in the other row... i don't know what would "properly" fix it... but i had an unrelated problem with my battery, and i pressed the CUDA (i think that's what it's called) to reset the battery and it ended up fixing my prefs problem i wouldn't recommend doing this unless someone with more hardware knowledge comes along and says it's cool... also, what panes are in your prefpanes folders? are there 4 keyboards? is classic, accounts, etc there in the folder itself? if so, then that's the same thing that happened to me basically.... __________________ until the last lock breaks, none of us are free

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Jan 12, 2003, 06:53 AM	#2
nickmcghie Thread Starter macrumors regular Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: UCLA	notice that the International preference and Classic preference are strangely missing, and there are four keyboard icons in the 5th row... i don't know why!! can somebody please tell me?? (btw, i'm running 10.2.3 on a 400mhz pismo powerbook g3 with 576 megs of RAM)

Jan 12, 2003, 10:29 PM	#4
nickmcghie Thread Starter macrumors regular Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: UCLA	in my PreferencePanes folder, there is only one Keyboards.prefPanes file, and there is also Classic.prefPanes, Accounts.prefPanes, and Localization.prefPanes (i'm assuming thats the one for the International preferences)... so i have no idea what the problem could be

Jan 12, 2003, 10:53 PM	#6
nickmcghie Thread Starter macrumors regular Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: UCLA	dang, do i really hafta reinstall? that'd be a bummer... if i do reinstall though, can i just reinstall the system while keeping my application preferences (and all the other stuff in my home folder) intact? cuz it'd be a REAL hassle to be a complete clean reinstall