Oddly enough, just did replace the pram battery when I replaced the
hard drive last month. No systemic pram type problems, date time
failure, this round.
No, after the 'S' boot to Applejack and failed reboot, used 'C'
Without a system disk in the drive, just a game disk. But it allowed
me to get thru the start up screens back to finder.
On Dec 15, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Dec 15, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Jeff Bequette wrote:
I can start the computer by holding the 'C' key but the sceen comes
up chopped, as in 4 panels. Went to Sys Prefs and reset screen and
all seems fine, but I'm kinda scared to reboot now.
The 'C' key normally boots a disc from the optical drive. Are you
booted from a CD or DVD?
Where should I be looking to discover the problem?
This sounds a little like a dead PRAM battery to me. If you've never
replaced the PRAM battery, it's almost for certain that it's a dead
PRAM battery, they only last about 5 years max, and this would seem
to be more than 5 years.
How do I know if the video card is going out?
Not too likely it's going out. You might re-seat it if you're
worried, but it's not common for these to fail, and since you
corrected your video problem in System Preferences, this indicates
the card is likely fine, and that the parameters for the video were
lost because the PRAM battery was dead.
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