Hello everyone,
Today is a sad day, my old pal Bender just passed away while saving the hard work of an innocent victim, it's a sad day because my powerbook died, making a hero of itself...
I was helping an artist friend of mine with his website. One night he came up to me with a blank face saying 'I think I lost all the pictures of my works, I don't have the negatives, only this CD which my (crappy) dell can't read anymore, please help me"!
So, I whipped-up bender, carefully inspected the data side of the CD my friend gave me, wiped it in order to remove the scratches & dust, and introduced it in my trusty old friend, who promptly backed-up the cherished data, with much appreciation from my friend (a future switcher, no doubt).
I then pressed the eject button and something hit me : I carefully checked and cleaned the DATA side, but what about the OTHER side?
My worst fears came true when I heard the grinding noise my superdrive made while ejecting the CD...
The little fscker had a small label hand-glued on it.
For the next two weeks my pb made strange noises while reading cds, then it stopped, and after that... I got two kernel panics in a row, and this morning, lo and behold... A question mark and a finder icon at booting time, yay apple, even BSOD are stylish
Booted hardware test -> here what I got the first two times: 2stf/8/3:ATA-100 ata-6 - Master
Third time all I got was a corrupted boot screen (grey screen with the apple logo, with lots of garbaged lines)
Fourth time, hardware tests did not even recognize the hard drive...
Now I'm crossing fingers for applecare (bought the 3 year app thingie but forgot to register. DOH')
So this is how Bender (rev.c pb 15 bto maxed-out, panther) died a hero. I will miss you.
Question is :
Shall I bring it back to life when applecare sends its "shiny metal a$$' back or should I bring 'Flexo' online running Tiger?
If anyone had the same misfortune, please share...
I think the label got stuck on some part of the airflow system and all hell broke loose...
Today is a sad day, my old pal Bender just passed away while saving the hard work of an innocent victim, it's a sad day because my powerbook died, making a hero of itself...
I was helping an artist friend of mine with his website. One night he came up to me with a blank face saying 'I think I lost all the pictures of my works, I don't have the negatives, only this CD which my (crappy) dell can't read anymore, please help me"!
So, I whipped-up bender, carefully inspected the data side of the CD my friend gave me, wiped it in order to remove the scratches & dust, and introduced it in my trusty old friend, who promptly backed-up the cherished data, with much appreciation from my friend (a future switcher, no doubt).
I then pressed the eject button and something hit me : I carefully checked and cleaned the DATA side, but what about the OTHER side?
My worst fears came true when I heard the grinding noise my superdrive made while ejecting the CD...
The little fscker had a small label hand-glued on it.
For the next two weeks my pb made strange noises while reading cds, then it stopped, and after that... I got two kernel panics in a row, and this morning, lo and behold... A question mark and a finder icon at booting time, yay apple, even BSOD are stylish
Booted hardware test -> here what I got the first two times: 2stf/8/3:ATA-100 ata-6 - Master
Third time all I got was a corrupted boot screen (grey screen with the apple logo, with lots of garbaged lines)
Fourth time, hardware tests did not even recognize the hard drive...
Now I'm crossing fingers for applecare (bought the 3 year app thingie but forgot to register. DOH')
So this is how Bender (rev.c pb 15 bto maxed-out, panther) died a hero. I will miss you.
Question is :
Shall I bring it back to life when applecare sends its "shiny metal a$$' back or should I bring 'Flexo' online running Tiger?
If anyone had the same misfortune, please share...
I think the label got stuck on some part of the airflow system and all hell broke loose...
