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Emac chimes, but screen stays blank
Name: Brandon J. Date: February 20, 2003 at 14:04:23 Pacific OS: Os 10.2 CPU/Ram: eMac with G4 800Mhz/ 256M
Comment:
At night, when i am done in the office i turn off the computer and then flip of the power strip, so any way when i turned the computer on for the first time yesterday the computer chimed but then it did nothing, so i pressed the power button and it went of then i turned it on again and it did the same thing, so i fliped of the power strip off then turned it back on and then turned the computer on and i booted fine, today when i turned the computer on for the first time the same thing happend so i held down the power switch untell it went of and then i turned it back on and it booted fine! does anyone know what the heck is going on here, the computer is brand new i bought it last monday, Thanks for any help -Brandon
Name: the pickle Date: February 20, 2003 at 14:35:48 Pacific
Reply:
Don't turn off the power strip when you've shut the computer down.
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Response Number 2
Name: Brandon J. Date: February 20, 2003 at 20:34:54 Pacific
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I had a felling that might have somthing to do with it, how come it dosent work right when you turn of th power strip (out of curiosity?) Thanks again, Brandon
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Response Number 3
Name: the pickle Date: February 21, 2003 at 16:08:06 Pacific
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A wild guess: the PRAM battery is bad (and since the machine is so new, probably was bad to begin with) and the Mac is getting very confused when the CUDA chip loses power.
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Response Number 4
Name: Brandon J. Date: February 23, 2003 at 12:24:10 Pacific
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should i call apple and have it repaired, and will/can it cause other problems?
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Response Number 5
Name: the pickle Date: February 23, 2003 at 12:39:11 Pacific
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Yes, you should tell Apple this problem is occurring, especially since it's a new machine and still (obviously) under warranty.
No, it probably won't cause other problems if you don't fix it, but it sure would be annoying to me if it were my machine, so I'd get it fixed.
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Response Number 6
Name: Brandon J. Date: February 23, 2003 at 20:16:12 Pacific
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Thank you pickle for all your help, i will call the store i bought it from tomorrow, as they are an apple service center, thanks again, Brandon
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Response Number 7
Name: the pickle Date: February 23, 2003 at 20:53:47 Pacific
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Let us know how this turns out, OK? :)
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Response Number 8
Name: Brandon J. Date: March 8, 2003 at 12:49:50 Pacific
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update, yesterday i picked the computer up, there where no problems. they checked the p-ram battery and everything, anyway, i am begining to think there is somthing wrong with my power strip, or, (possibly) somthing wrong with the keybord or mouse, because of course when i took the computer in it lost power , but it booted up just fine for them and it booted up for me just fine when i got it home, thanks again, Brandon
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Response Number 9
Name: jotabill Date: March 9, 2003 at 15:30:01 Pacific
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Hey Guys, I've got a problem. My eMac chimes on startup but the screen stays black. It won't do anything else, I've tried rebooting it but it is as dead as a dodo! HELP!
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Response Number 10
Name: the pickle Date: March 9, 2003 at 19:11:40 Pacific
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1) Start a new thread. 2) Try the solutions suggested in similar posts.
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