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Ok... so I got this external firewire harddrive, for my audio files. so... I have my computer on, with the drive on... Im at work, and I leave to take my break. Well, I come back, and the guy who gave me my break was like "uh, I accidently pulled the power supply out of the hard drive" well, now there are all these like black lines/dots around my icons, and mouse. And when I minimize things, there are all these artifacts on the window that is being minimized. I tried restarting, shuting down, change screen resolution and screaming they wont go away pleaseeee tell me my computer isnt fucked, and someone knows how to fix this... thanks |
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Your computer isn't fucked and someone knows how to fix this. |
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Have you tried reinstalling the graphics drivers? |
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umm, you might possibly need to zap something in the mac's PRAM or fiddle with the firmware... Which mac, drive and os ver? |
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OSX (panther), Powerbook G4 1 gig, w/ 1 gig ram, LaCie D2 120 gig |
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no idea, but taking out the battery for 10s + and then putting it back in can't hurt (?). |
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oh yeah, did that too... :-\ |
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hope that guy is insured |
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well like dude said the pram thing i think it's option-shift-p-r when you restart also you could try resetting the PMU (power management unit) which i think is comand-option-shift-power button for five seconds but definately check apple.com they have a really good self help section with this stuff |
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reset the p-ram by holding down p and restart. thats all i can think of. but if that doesn't work, hitting the guy in the kidneys will probably make you feel better? |
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There exist updated drivers for the LaCie FW HDs for Panther compatibility: Hope that helps! |
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that seriously sounds like your graphics card got zapped. no idea why pulling the power out of a firewire hd would do that, though ... ? |
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actually now that i think about it, how the fuck did he 'accidentally' pull the plug, anyway? sure he didn't, like, do something really screwed up like spill water everywhere and he unplugged the hd because he thought he could save it or something? really, it does sound like your video card is completely toasted, or possibly your monitor (tried a different monitor, or your monitor on another mac?). i don't think pulling the power out of a firewire hd, which has nothing to do with the video card/monitor, could cause this. |
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it was an accident, because he was using his laptop (which has a black power chord) and my harddrive has a black power chord. He went to unplug his laptop and grabbed the wrong plug. Anyways, oddly enough, when I plugged my computer into my second moniter... everything worked fine. *shrug* |
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Sounds like your first monitor might be failing for unrelated reasons... |
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my ibook is broke to hell :( |
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