Hello Eileen,

I expect a heap of criticism for what I’m about to say.
I always recommend installing a new OS from a USB key and wiping the hard drive 
before doing the installation. You can then restore your data and settings from 
a Time Machine backup.
I’m so tired of seeing unpredictable behaviour when people just do an upgrade 
on top of the existing OS.
My husband is currently on a long phone call with a client who tried to install 
El Capitán on top of Yosemite, and her machine will no longer boot.

Once the machine is in a bad way, the best thing to do is a clean install from 
a USB key and not copy everything from Time Machine, but reconfigure the 
machine from scratch and only copy back your data from Time Machine.

Cheers,

Anne


> On 14 Oct 2015, at 18:05, Eileen Scrivani <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Traci,
>  
> On Sunday, I called Apple tech support with what I thought would be a simple 
> question and fix to problems I experienced while using IBooks.I did the 
> upgrade to El Cap from Yosemite.
>  
> Apple tech shared  viewing my computer and observed the behavior.  I 
> literally spent about 3 hours on the phone with them.  The exact problem you 
> describe with VO just stop working – no sound – kept happening across the 
> board.  I kept having to use command F5 to turn it back on (I never turned it 
> off to begin with).  Finally the tech rep suggested restoring the install of 
> El Capitan.  The system would not even allow me to restore/reinstall the 
> software.  Bottom line is I have an appointment set up on Friday morning to 
> bring the Mac book into them and let them work on it in the Apple store.  I’m 
> very disgusted with the computer at this point.
>  

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