[DM-MUG] Reinstall or copy from clone.

[Ray Bowler]

At 9:25 PM -0600 on 11/16/04, Matt W wrote about Re: [DM-MUG] 
Reinstall or copy from clone.:
>On Nov 16, 2004, at 8:32 PM, Ray Bowler wrote:
>
>>
>That's one of the symptoms of the logic board failure. It sounds 
>like the HD or CD drive is spinning, but you may not hear a startup 
>tone, and may get video that goes out again...or you may not get any 
>video at all. On the other hand, that set of symptoms covers a few 
>other problems too.

And the trouble is that if it gets to Apple and works fine they can't 
do anything about it. Don't really blame them on that one.


>>
>Oh, it CAN start out as intermittent. Does your serial fall within the range?

Yes. In fact right in the middle. This is subjective of course but I 
have a feeling that it is more responsive than it was. I may play 
around with something to cleanup the caches and things.

>>I have a feeling that if I do the reinstall it will be a clean 
>>install of 10.3.
>>
>You may not have a hardware problem at all. Just be aware. I've 
>found having an extra 60 GB drive around--to test install a clean 
>system or backup my system as a whole--is invaluable. For $200-ish 
>dollars, I have a LOT of peace of mind. Of course, I run my business 
>from my PowerBook and $200 is pretty cheap insurance when you 
>consider losing weeks, months, or years of personal e-mail, address 
>books, software updates and registrations.

I agree on that one. I bought a 140 GB Firewire a while back and 
created 6 partitions. I clone the 20 GB internal to 5 partitions, one 
each week. The sixth is for backing up my 6500 over the network plus 
a bootable OS 10.2.8 system plus  misc. things. I am backing up my 
wife's user folder to it daily right now. It gives a lot of peace of 
mind for me and mine is only personal, not business.

Thanks again for the thoughts.
-- 
Ray

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