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I know Microsoft would bring death to my iBook...

Is there any way to delete anything from the verbose mode (rm mabee, how do I use it though).

Dont use the command line a lot sorry.
 
Heres whats coming up when I boot in to single user mode and leave it for a bit

Two of the pics are of parts of the screen and the last one is of the whole thing.
 

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PowerFullMac said:
The only reason I even opened it was because I thought even if it was a virus it wouldnt effect the good ol' Mac.
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I was wondering when that belief would finally get some one in trouble. Their are ZERO virus for the mac after you removed the 600 or so that effect MS office. Mind you all of the one that deal with MS office are self contained in the fact they can not get out side of office.
They are VB based viruses. The macros are great things if used correctly. Some how you may of set your computer to allow the use of Macros in another file from another computer. I know it is not the default setting on windows (and the only reason I know that is because I was pulling my hair out years ago when I had to write macros for office for one of my classes.

PowerFullMac said:
I have a I/O error. I started it up in verbose mode and it said it was a I/0 error before it started hanging. Then it shows load task exited by signal (10) about five times.
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well hate to tell you this but this I/0 error is kind of the proof that it not MS fault but a hardware failing. All office possible did was macro hit your computer it put a little stress on the hardware (maybe a bunch of re write of the hardrive, cpu 100% ram filling up ect) none of which should cause any more than a minor incovences while you have to restarted. Now if your hardware is already nearing failure it might be enough to push it over the edge. All it tells me is your computer was a time bomb waiting to go off. The OS is never given the chance to load so it points very quickly to a hardware issue not a software issue which removed MS completely from being the cause.
 
Pretty scary.

I did hear a rumour of some hacker finding a hole in OSX and was going to exploit it. (Was on Engadget).

Don't know if that is true or related to this.
 
PowerFullMac said:
Put the disk in and started while holding down command-C and it still trys to boot form the HD. How do I reset the PRAM etc.

Also, I tryed a disk repair and that didnt work.
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That is because you don't boot of the disk by holding down command-c. You only hold down the C key.

You can also boot holding down the option key. It will boot to a screen where you can select which disk to start from.

You really need to try to boot it from CD before anything else. If it boots from the install disk, then it is probably easily fixable.
 
Jestered said:
That is because you don't boot of the disk by holding down command-c. You only hold down the C key.

You can also boot holding down the option key. It will boot to a screen where you can select which disk to start from.

You really need to try to boot it from CD before anything else. If it boots from the install disk, then it is probably easily fixable.
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you actually hold down the D key
 
rcarricato said:
you actually hold down the D key
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Wrong.

To boot from the install disk to repair the drive, you hold down the C key by itself.

Holding down the D key will boot to the Apple Hardware Test, which does absolutely nothing as far as repairing anything.

PowerFullMac said:
Also, I tryed a disk repair and that didnt work.
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If you never got it to boot from the install disk, then I don't see how you tried to repair the disk. Did you run fsck -y? What did you do to repair the drive if you can't boot to the hard drive and you were holding down the wrong key to boot from the install disk?

You have to boot to the install disk, holding down only the C key. Then you have to launch the disk utility from one of the menus in the menu bar. Then repair the drive (not repair permissions). If it finds errors on the drive, it will try to repair them. Even if it says that it repaired the drive, repair it again. Sometimes it says it repaired the drive and it didn't. Keep repairing the drive until it does not show any errors at all.

If you keep repairing the drive and it keeps coming back with errors, you will probably have to erase and reinstall.

Let us know what happens.
 
So all my data is lost?

I'll try booting from the disk again and to check the disk I used /sbin/fsck -fy

EDIT: Cant boot from the disk and it doesent even come up when I hold down ALT on startup (just comes up with MacOSX)
 
I really doubt a Word document could ever mess up your file system but I guess it still can't hurt to run through the usual disk checks/repairs.

Can you boot into Safe Mode by holding SHIFT? This disables a lot of the usual crap that accompanies a regular startup, and it also checks your disk. :)

Also, I think we need to determine if your problem is because of the Word document or if you already had issues and it just happened to coincide with the attachment. Had your machine been acting strangely before downloading the Word document?
 
When I boot in to safe mode (or try to) it has a kernal panic, and it has been a bit unstable and slow before now, strange for a Mac.
So I think it is hardware trouble and when I boot holding command+v im getting text:
disk0s5:I/O Error
Also when I type shutdown it says /etc/master.passwd: no such file or directory.
Also, it still dosent find the resore disk but it boots from my Ubuntu live boot disk fine.
 
Ok, im looking at replacement parts so are ou sure its the HD thats broken? If it was I thought it wouldnt have booted at all. But if I choose to sell it how much do you think i'll get, bearing in mind most parts still seem to work (they do when I run Linux off a live boot disk). Thanks for all your help.
 
If I were you, I would run the apple hardware test that came with your mac, if you cannot even boot to the apple hardware test then I would remove 1 stick of memory at a time if you have 2 sticks and see if either one will get it to boot. If that does not work then I would have to venture a guess that your logic board has gone bad, I don't think a bad HD would keep your from loading the Apple hardware test.

If the apple hardware test will load then see if it reports if anything is bad on the computer.
 
Ran the Apple Hardware Test (the Extended Test) a few times and it says everything passed (except the AirPort, because I dont have one). Also I dont think its a bad logic board because it can run Linux off a live boot disk fine. My uncle says it could just be corrupted so he's gonna send me a Tiger install disk so I can do a archive install.
 
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