[Noisebridge-discuss] I don't know Macs and this one needs help!

[matt holland]

Macs these days ship with install disks that only work for the
particular model you purchased. Chances are her friends discs were for
other models.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:43 PM, d p chang <pchang at macrovision.com> wrote:
> Marnia Johnston <marnia at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> The non-profit I work for is having Mac problems. Their iMac is 3-4
>> years old and it wont boot up past the white screen/grey apple phase.
>
> does it give the sad mac or does it just sit there? if you hold down
> cmd-v (the funny clover labelled key + v) it should give you a 'verbose'
> boot so that you can see where it is going south.
>
>> I wanted to re-install the OS, figuring that that would solve the
>> problem. Unfortunatly they've lost the orignial disks and
>> everybody elses copy of OS X wont work.
>
> i'm not sure what you mean here. the machine is old enough that other
> install disks don't work?
>
> \p
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