Hi Steve, My guess is that the hard drive is almost surely bad. If so, the question is whether I can determine if that's the only thing that is bad. Are there simple diagnostics that I can do to check all of the other hardware? I guess that might be why you asked about the hardware diagnostic DVD. I could try that next, though I'm still worried about the DVD getting stuck in the hung computer. Is there any way to remove a stuck DVD (like the old paper clip in the small hole that could be used on old DVD drives)?
Gregg On Oct 30, 2011, at 5:09 PM, [email protected] wrote: > on 2011-10-30 14:49 Gregg Dinse wrote >> Can anyone interpret this for me? Is it likely a bad hard drive, > > yes, the logs do suggest that you have a corrupt fileysystem > >> or might it be some other hardware problem? > > yes, it could be something else; the failure to boot from another drive means > that something other than the drive is bad, but you didn't say what you tried > to boot from and how you are sure that should have worked > > if the firmware update were downloaded to a failing hard drive, one could > imagine it seeming to download intact but then becoming corrupt during the > update process; that would be bad > >> Is there anything I can try that might help fix or diagnose the problem? > > have you tried booting from an install DVD? do you have a hardware diagnostic > DVD? > > tried firewire target mode? single-user mode (S)? > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
