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Can anyone help me recover from this crash?
I have a new 8 core and am running Final Cut Studio and nothing else on the machine.
I have just had a crash and, when I try to restart, I just hear the fan going full blast and nothing comes upon the monitor. I’d like to run Disk Warrior and Disk Utilities, but I can’t get the machine to go into a proper start up mode. It just runs the fans real fast… so I can’t start from a Disk Warrior CD. Apple no longer has the little hole which allowed one to poke a pin into and open the drawer.
Can anyone suggest an emergency way of starting up?
Pressing the eject key while starting doesn’t work either.
Many thanks,
Harry.
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Try to start pressing the button that open the DVD driver tray, it may opens then you can put the Diskwarrior CD.
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> have a new 8 core and am running Final Cut Studio and nothing else on the machine. < NOTHING else? Most commercial disk utilities have versions that can and should be installed locally. > I have just had a crash < CRASH is meaningless around here. You need to tell us what it means to you so we can start to make helpful suggestions instead of guessing, which is all I'm doing. > and, when I try to restart, I just hear the fan going full blast and nothing comes upon the monitor. < Fans at full blast and nothing on the monitor suggest the worst possible failure, the mother board or, as Apple likes to call it, the logic board. Forget trying to debug this on your own, take it in to a Macintosh service center. > I’d like to run Disk Warrior and Disk Utilities, but I can’t get the machine to go into a proper start up mode. It just runs the fans real fast… so I can’t start from a Disk Warrior CD. Apple no longer has the little hole which allowed one to poke a pin into and open the drawer.< That was a decade ago. Hold the mouse down on restart, that will always open the #1 optical drive drawer. I wish you luck, it does NOT look good from where I'm sitting. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Thank you all for your advice.
Best
Harry
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[bogiesan] “> I’d like to run Disk Warrior and Disk Utilities, but I can’t get the machine to go into a proper start up mode. It just runs the fans real fast… so I can’t start from a Disk Warrior CD. Apple no longer has the little hole which allowed one to poke a pin into and open the drawer.< That was a decade ago. Hold the mouse down on restart, that will always open the #1 optical drive drawer. "
Hi Bogiesan,
Please explain me this of the “Holding the mouse to open the #1 optical drive drawer”
I’ve been working with my G5 and using DiskWarrior for a few years. Now I just bough a MacBookPro and I don’t know the best way to keep it optimiced. What is that of the “#1 optical drive drawer” ?
Thanks in advance,
Rafael
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