Lost in Translation » Computer http://lit.etherjammer.com Radices cocta simul illo cupisne? Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:20:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Computer issues – please help if you can http://lit.etherjammer.com/2009/12/computer-issues-please-help-if-you-can/ http://lit.etherjammer.com/2009/12/computer-issues-please-help-if-you-can/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:37:56 +0000 Chris Anthony http://blog.etherjammer.com/?p=12 My beloved Macbook stopped working this evening. It was working fine – I stepped away to get clean sheets out of the dryer, while one of the cats walked over the keyboard in my absence – and when I came back, the screen was black and the Caps Lock key was lit and wouldn’t toggle off. I couldn’t do anything but hold the Power button until the computer powered down.

Now it won’t power back up at all. No noise, no fans, no nothin’. I’ve tried resetting the PMU/SMC (remove battery/power, hold Power button 5 seconds, replace and start up), starting without the battery, starting without the power supply… nothing seems to work.

I’m going to let it sit overnight, but I’ll be honest: I’m not hopeful. If you have any advice, I’d love to hear it; otherwise I’m going to have to salvage the hard drive and – I guess – start hoping for a new one for Christmas.

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