This afternoon my Quad went to a blue screen with only a spinner. I hard powered off and when I brought it back it was fine for about 10 minutes before it started hanging on me and not responding. I’ve got it powered off again now, maybe I need to pull the 3rd party RAM and see if that has any effect? I’m worried it could be a hard drive problem – time to do another carbon copy clone. I was really enjoying being back on the Quad after a week on the PowerBook – I need to get this solved in a hurry.
At the same time, my TiVo has started misbehaving. The playback gets jerky and the TiVo won’t respond to any input – I have to unplug it. When it comes back, everything is “fine”, though that only lasted 30 minutes this last time before I had to unplug it again. I have about 3 weeks of shows saved up since I didn’t have time to watch anything leading up to the FeedLounge launch – unfortunately, this sounds like it could be a hard drive problem.
Argh – I don’t have time for this crap right now!
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Ray adds this Comment:
Mac blue screens? I don’t believe…
January 18th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
First time I’ve seen it as well.
January 19th, 2006 at 12:16 am
Eric Cheng adds this Comment:
Alex — my tivo did that twice. Both times, I had to replace the hard disk.
Wonder if there are any Mac tivo toolkits by now. It’s been years since I’ve hacked one.
January 19th, 2006 at 1:38 am
stephen ogrady adds this Comment:
that’s always the way it goes for me – i never have one thing break, everything goes at once.
when it rains and so forth.
January 19th, 2006 at 8:11 am
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