#poor Malkovich
KetelOne’s Revenge continues… Picking up where we left off…
- replacement hard drive arrived today
- removed the bad drive (once again, watch out for that “HD HEAT” cable on the side - - delicate little wire!)
- installed the new drive
- booted to the blinking “?” folder (as expected, since there’s no OS on the drive yet)
- insert install DVD and reboot + C
- Installer doesn’t seem to see the hard drive that I just put in there (um… not OK?)
- reboot + “Option”; this doesn’t seem to see the hard drive either (now I’m getting worried)
- run “Apple Hardware Test”… (Extended Test)
- AirtPort: Passed
- Logic Board: Passed
- Mass Storage: Passed
- Memory: …
- …after 32 minutes, I decided to skip that…
- reboot + C
- Disk Utility sees it OK but the Installer still doesn’t… (!?!?)
- http://www.apple.com/support/ — hit their little chat service…
- “…try putting a file system on it…” (e.g., Disk Utility > Erase Volume)
- /doh!
- we now return you to your installation, already in progress…
[...] On the flip of things: Malkovich is acting up again. Hardware again but not the hard drive. The machine just randomly shuts itself off at irregular intervals. Sometimes its days or hours between these random shut-offs. Sometimes they’re in immediate succession. Reading up on it, I thought maybe the SMU had just learned some bad habits. But despite the Apple knowledgebase’s recommendation, this hasn’t apparently made any difference. The Apple Support chat wasn’t much help in this case either — they just told me to take it to my local Apple Authorized Service vendor. WTF? I’m beginning to think that there are some serious flaws in the iMac G5 design. Maybe I’m being harsh. The hard drives are bought wholesale from another company, I suppose. But this is the second problem I’ve had with this machine. And the second machine I’ve purchased that’s been affected by a “repair extension program“. [...]
April 2nd, 2006 at 9:01 am