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LMAO! Leopard install black screen horror...

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cossie

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Leopard arrived in the post last week and I set aside time to install it on my MBP this evening while watching the tennis.

I install it, and it all goes grand...then i reboot.

After the reboot, I get the chime, the grey screen with the logo, the little pinwheel spins around...and then a totally black screen. 😱

Cue a major freak out with lots of googling and searching all the mac support forums i can find. I ran the Hardware test, reset my pram...still nothing but darkness.

I then start looking at for the opening times of my local Apple Store, and try to work my Monday around a trip there. I left my MBP alone and sat down defeated and worried... 🙁

Then I booted it up one last time, with fingers crossed, to see if it might work.

No dice.

Then as I reached across to hit the power button, I accidentally tapped F12 and noticed a tiny flicker of very dark grey on the screen.

It turns out that somehow the brightness of my display had been completely turned off. 😱

So crisis averted! Hence the LMAO in my post title. 🙂

I would have felt so dumb if I'd brought it to the Store for the guys there to turn on the brightness...and I work with computers all the time! 😱
 
Hehe

cossie said:
Leopard arrived in the post last week and I set aside time to install it on my MBP this evening while watching the tennis.

I install it, and it all goes grand...then i reboot.

After the reboot, I get the chime, the grey screen with the logo, the little pinwheel spins around...and then a totally black screen. 😱

Cue a major freak out with lots of googling and searching all the mac support forums i can find. I ran the Hardware test, reset my pram...still nothing but darkness.

I then start looking at for the opening times of my local Apple Store, and try to work my Monday around a trip there. I left my MBP alone and sat down defeated and worried... 🙁

Then I booted it up one last time, with fingers crossed, to see if it might work.

No dice.

Then as I reached across to hit the power button, I accidentally tapped F12 and noticed a tiny flicker of very dark grey on the screen.

It turns out that somehow the brightness of my display had been completely turned off. 😱

So crisis averted! Hence the LMAO in my post title. 🙂

I would have felt so dumb if I'd brought it to the Store for the guys there to turn on the brightness...and I work with computers all the time! 😱
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Don't feel bad. My 21 month old was messing with our computer and the same thing happened.
 
ha. I set my brightness all the way down and my brother tried to use it and thought he broke it some how.
 
rofl! i has the windows bluescreen for wallpaper. hope i don't encounter the mac version!
 
!on said:
rofl! i has the windows bluescreen for wallpaper. hope i don't encounter the mac version!
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Although it's still not good to get one, the Mac equivalent of a BSoD (known as a Kernel Panic) looks much...sexier.

MacOSX_kernel_panic.png
 
Yeah. The Chinese in the bottom really underlines the grand aesthetic expression of a modernistic global society in awe. 🙂
 
cossie said:
Then as I reached across to hit the power button, I accidentally tapped F12 and noticed a tiny flicker of very dark grey on the screen.
It turns out that somehow the brightness of my display had been completely turned off. 😱 ..
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First, I'm glad it was nothing serious! If I had a nickel for every time.... 😀

Second, I'm confused. You're on a MBP, right? You hit the F12 key, right? You saw a flicker on the screen, right? You had your brightness turned off, right?

On my MBP, the F12 controls the volume, not the brightness, which is F2, all the way across the keyboard from the power button. I know I'm missing something.... what is it? 😕
 
ggjstudios said:
First, I'm glad it was nothing serious! If I had a nickel for every time.... 😀

Second, I'm confused. You're on a MBP, right? You hit the F12 key, right? You saw a flicker on the screen, right? You had your brightness turned off, right?

On my MBP, the F12 controls the volume, not the brightness, which is F2, all the way across the keyboard from the power button. I know I'm missing something.... what is it? 😕
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F12 controls the widgets on my MBP not the brightness, I just happened to notice a flicker (because one of my widgets is a greyish / white circle) on my screen when I pressed it. F4 and F5 control my volume and as you rightly pointed out F2 (and F3) control the brightness.
 
its Japanese. i can remember the characters from learning Japanese in the first two years of primary school (elementary). i cant speak it at all i just remember the characters… im amazed i can remember them!
 
Hilarious story hahah 😀.

I used to work at a TV broadcasting place. When my boss was bored, he'd try scare us into making us think things were going wrong by turning off monitors or messing with brightness levels. Awesome 😛.

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Jiddick ExRex said:
Yeah. The Chinese in the bottom really underlines the grand aesthetic expression of a modernistic global society in awe. 🙂
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It's entirely Japanese, but wow, your comment made me chuckle inside 😛
 
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