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EMERGENCY. My Computer Just Went BOOM.
10 years ago
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Major Power Outage in Van Nuys tonight...My computer was on, I was playing WoW, when the lights went out, came on, then out again. And now, my Mac won't start up. I think it's dead. SO....I am unplugging and checking everything from the ground up. If I can't get it to restart...we're totally fucked. No money, no commissions coming in, NOTHING. So, I don't know how long I'll be without a computer. I can still keep in touch using my mom's machine like I am doing now, but this is NOT a long term solution. Don't know what I can do, but I just thought everyone would like to know. Contact info is below.
fillenevixen[at]gmail.com
Nynaeve[at]ureach.com
wish us the best. We're gonna need it.
UPDATED UPDATE: I will need help with the following....
1. The Iomega Drive works FINE with Mac OS X El Capitan! Was kinda funny...plugged it in, and the tech was baffled why it wasn't showing up anywhere on the desktop. Scoured the ENTIRE computer...didn't find it. Then I smirked...and put the disk into the drive to read it. And it showed up FINE. >.>! SO...ONE PROBLEM SOLVED!
2. I need a newish version of Atlantis for access to Furrymuck and Tapestries, as well as any addresses, port numbers, whatever I need to connect. Help?
3. SL should be easy enough to handle. Go to site, download client, spend 12 hours tinkering with said client.
4. WoW should be a piece of cake. Download new client, BOOM ready to go.
5. Awesome MacStore Tech from #1 showed me how to find the backup folders for time machine. Everything is safe and sound!!!!
6. How the f**k am I gonna afford $2500? >.<!!! Meh. I'll manage something for the next 18 months or so. Thanks to clever financing and a genius mom, I have an extra 15 months. 33 months total, to pay this off. And it was closer to $3k. Still. I...think I can manage this okay. >.>
7. Well, that SHOULD be it to get me stable. After that, it's a case of finding a new art program to digitally ink and color. I am seriously looking over SAI, but wasn't there a photoshop clone out there too? Or was that Sai? >.> More help here would be appreciated. It's now....3am Saturday. I think I am going to get some sleep. Tomorrow promises to be pure perfect hell. Wish me luck!
Please spread the word to anyone who knows Nynaeve and I. We don't know exactly when we'll be back online with our own machine. Hopefully tomorrow. Oh gawd I just realized...ALL OUR BOOKMARKS. >.<!!!!!!!! ALL OUR BOOKMARKS ARE SAFE...I think, in the backup folders in the Time Machine drive. I hope. Will have to check. I've been writing down a LOT of the ones I remember. Should be able to find them.
Thanks to Nynaeve and me mum, we have a new system on the way in 3 to 5 days or so. And we're gonna buy a fookin' HYOOGE Surge protector.
fillenevixen[at]gmail.com
Nynaeve[at]ureach.com
wish us the best. We're gonna need it.
UPDATED UPDATE: I will need help with the following....
1. The Iomega Drive works FINE with Mac OS X El Capitan! Was kinda funny...plugged it in, and the tech was baffled why it wasn't showing up anywhere on the desktop. Scoured the ENTIRE computer...didn't find it. Then I smirked...and put the disk into the drive to read it. And it showed up FINE. >.>! SO...ONE PROBLEM SOLVED!
2. I need a newish version of Atlantis for access to Furrymuck and Tapestries, as well as any addresses, port numbers, whatever I need to connect. Help?
3. SL should be easy enough to handle. Go to site, download client, spend 12 hours tinkering with said client.
4. WoW should be a piece of cake. Download new client, BOOM ready to go.
5. Awesome MacStore Tech from #1 showed me how to find the backup folders for time machine. Everything is safe and sound!!!!
6. How the f**k am I gonna afford $2500? >.<!!! Meh. I'll manage something for the next 18 months or so. Thanks to clever financing and a genius mom, I have an extra 15 months. 33 months total, to pay this off. And it was closer to $3k. Still. I...think I can manage this okay. >.>
7. Well, that SHOULD be it to get me stable. After that, it's a case of finding a new art program to digitally ink and color. I am seriously looking over SAI, but wasn't there a photoshop clone out there too? Or was that Sai? >.> More help here would be appreciated. It's now....3am Saturday. I think I am going to get some sleep. Tomorrow promises to be pure perfect hell. Wish me luck!
Please spread the word to anyone who knows Nynaeve and I. We don't know exactly when we'll be back online with our own machine. Hopefully tomorrow. Oh gawd I just realized...ALL OUR BOOKMARKS. >.<!!!!!!!! ALL OUR BOOKMARKS ARE SAFE...I think, in the backup folders in the Time Machine drive. I hope. Will have to check. I've been writing down a LOT of the ones I remember. Should be able to find them.
Thanks to Nynaeve and me mum, we have a new system on the way in 3 to 5 days or so. And we're gonna buy a fookin' HYOOGE Surge protector.
Hope you can recover all of this! Worst case scenario you can pull the drive from the machine and put it in an external case or a USB adapter of some sort. I wonder if your machine's fried, or if it's just a power supply problem. If you're near an Apple store they might have a look at it for free and give you a professional opinion. As far as I know they only charge for actual repairs, not advice.
You may want one of these. If your hard drive is fine, it will let you access it from another computer; just stick the hard drive in the enclosure and plug it in with a USB cable, it'll appear just like plugging in a flash drive.
From the sound of it though, it's probably just a power supply problem. Which should be easy enough to fix, and not too expensive either (a hundred or two at most, cheaper than a new computer anyway!)