My computer may be haunted

Maybe it's a bad OS installation; could you try an archive and reinstall?
Also, try repairing permissions, that seems to solve everything, haha.
and if you're anywhere near an apple store, get there toot sweet!



Haunted powerbooks are not fun, unless they're haunted by someone awesome, like Mendelssohn.


OT:
My bathroom is haunted, I swear. I was in there after a shower, and SOMETHING threw a shampoo bottle at me. It didn't just fall, it went SIX FEET OVER, AT ME, hitting me on my back. It hurt like a mother and since then, I make sure to re-close the shower curtain after I pop out...
stupid punk hauntings.

 

Hmm... Have you installed RAM recently?

Is there a chance your hard drive is failing? Is it clicking? Is the SMART status verified in Disk Utility?

Have you read about resetting the PRAM and NVRAM? How about resetting the PMU?

 

You could try to take out the tub, then reinstall it.

 

Uh oh! That does sound creepy....sure it is not someone in the same gene pool tryin to scare you?? Could try pitching back the bottle in the same direction though....could help...never know....I will definately watch over my shoulder when in there....

 

Heehee... Thanks for makin' me laugh.. the bathroom is creepy and my bedroom shares a common wall with it.. EEP!


Hmm... maybe if I get procare, I could get my favorite genius to check it out.
I wonder what kind of guff I'll get for that!

 

Sorry, I don't have anything useful to say, but this is the best thread I've seen all week

 

Whatever you do, backup all of your important files while you still can!

Also...

I'd sleep with the lights on from now on!

 

I've seen one of those expensive 8-pound Dell laptops suffer a hard drive failure within 3 months.

Stuff happens, I guess. Good luck.

 

Sounds like you need to call TAPS. For those of you who don't know what this is, it's the show on the SCI Fi Channel.

Nuc

 

Oh wow....my Powerbook had the exact same symptoms, and had to get a HD change also. Funny thing is...I also bought it 14 months ago, with Applecare expiring 2 months ago, and my problem started exactly 2 week ago today

I took it into the Apple Store and had to pay $350 to have it repaired (didn't want to risk doing it myself). I just got it back yesterday.


Funny how just after Applecare expires, all these problems happen, eh?

 

Man, they're like ticking time bombs, ey? haha!

/getting apple care 2 weeks before it expires
//happens to be my birthday!
///I'm gonna get some clerks to sing for me
////and take a video and post it on MR.

 

I say its the logic board.

Does blood pour out of all the ports like mine, and then the screen gets all fuzzy and somara climbs out of the well and then jumps out of the screen. She has some trouble getting out on my 12" screen though.

I go to this restaurant that is supposidly haunted.

My friend lives in a haunted house, it is a house from the 1700s. Thats what previous owners and my friend say. The "ghosts" aren't evil. She and her husband were on NBC or something about out. Some of the things that happen are candles blowing out, locked doors opening, rocking chairs moving, cold feelings- even in the middle of summer, and just weird things like that. Also, according to the people in the town (including old people), when the house was uninhabited for years, people would see people's faces in the attic every so often. The "ghosts" are believed to be of the original owners of the house. The man of the house died in the revolutionary war.

Also, I drive past (in my boat) the lighthouse that was on ghost hunters, the Ledge Light House in New London CT. It is one really weird looking light house.

 

My G5 has a ghost - i swear.

With NO apps open it 'rang' as in like a door bell rang... TWICE! this happened yesterday! I **** myself when I opened 'top' and saw no unusual apps were running - i don't know where it came from.

 

It sounds very similar to the M.O. on an iBook I worked on with a buggy logic board. (it was 6 months expired on applecare) and had to pay $300 one time fee for apple to fix it up.

 

Have you even read the whole thread?

 

Quite easy: Backup whatever you can of your data, like you've done, and replace the HD. If you're fairly adventurous or technical you can get a good sized 2.5" Laptop HD @5400 or even 7200 and replace it yourself...

I would get this 120 GB HD from Seagate...

 

I think the most important part of that thread was

lol.

Good to hear the x86isslow is getting his data off the HDD. Whew!