I guess I was right...
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I'd posted before about problems with my dual GHz Quicksilver, and guess what. This morning I boot up the computer.........and nothing works. What happened when I booted up is on the startup screen I got an image of like a disc (looked like a floppy sort of) with a flashing question mark inside it. While this is going on I hear a noise inside the computer. I opened the case up and it seems as if the noise is coming from the hard drive. My thought is that the hard drive has gone caput and that the question mark thingie means it isnt recognizing any hard drive as being in the computer. I don't know what to do now....I have a lot of important stuff on the HD, some of it NOT backed up. I don't expect a $3000 few month old computer to just suddenly FAIL on me.
I am SO ****ing sick of this **** happening to me all the time....
P.S. I already posted this in the Genius bar but I'm not going to get any replies there and I am desperate.
I'd posted before about problems with my dual GHz Quicksilver, and guess what. This morning I boot up the computer.........and nothing works. What happened when I booted up is on the startup screen I got an image of like a disc (looked like a floppy sort of) with a flashing question mark inside it. While this is going on I hear a noise inside the computer. I opened the case up and it seems as if the noise is coming from the hard drive. My thought is that the hard drive has gone caput and that the question mark thingie means it isnt recognizing any hard drive as being in the computer. I don't know what to do now....I have a lot of important stuff on the HD, some of it NOT backed up. I don't expect a $3000 few month old computer to just suddenly FAIL on me.
I am SO ****ing sick of this **** happening to me all the time....
P.S. I already posted this in the Genius bar but I'm not going to get any replies there and I am desperate.
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As to your problem, this should be covered under warantee. About the important information, if was ever saved to your hard drive, then it's probably still there, even things you thought you'd erased are probably still there. You need to find a good and experienced data recovery service. They can pull stuff off of drives that you thought was gone, that you may have even wanted gone. (police and insurance investigators have been known to use some of the best data recovery services in 'forensic capacities) It's probably really expensive, though -- just how important is that data?
As to your struggle with repeated PM problems:
I think you have a unique opportunity to ge this fixed. MWNY is coming soon. Get yourself a keynote ticket, put the dual gigger in a dufflebag and take it with you to the show. When Steve takes the stage, charge onto the set, smash the mac to ground and stomp it into a zillion pieces all the while ranting about how unreliable it's been, you can't get it fixed or replaced, Apple ripped you off, etc etc...
I hear something like that went really well for a Gateway customer. And just think you'd be on a live web-cast. I think you'd be the ultimate mac celebrity at that point. Should you pull it off, I'm pretty sure we could put together a nice collection here at AI to buy you a replacement mac, legal costs are your own problem though.
Is it supposed to be my fault that a $3000 computer suddenly won't boot up after a few months of use? Wow, I guess I caused that huh. Numerous problems means a beige G3 that was slower than Quadras, that always froze, that I had to personally rescue to get it back up working right. And now that is the computer I'm going to have to use.
If you can't be helpful, THEN SHOVE YOURCOMMENTSUP YOURASS.
<strong>I am SO ****ing sick of this **** happening to me all the time.
**** off man. I don't need your shirty ass comments.
SHOVE YOURCOMMENTSUP YOURASS.</strong><hr></blockquote> <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
Yeah, you're bound to get lots of help with that attitude.
Matsu did post a helpful comment. He suggested taking the drive to an experienced "disk salvage" service. There are many out there and they do excellent work. The part about getting up on stage was a joke. Did you completely miss the ordeal a while back about the guy taking his Gateway into a Gateway Country store and obliterating it?
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Perhaps I should have used smilies. I have no idea what you can do to fix your mac besides calling Apple and explaining it to them.
I wasn't trying to say it's your fault. I find some of Apple's warantee practice appaling, and, from accounts on the web they seem to treat non apple-care customers as second class (even in the first year) when really the three year warantee ought to be standard by now, especially considering the cost.
I want to see egg on Steve's arrogant face. Quality, the best design, whole widget integration... blah blah blah... that's why they cost so much. But when you pay 3000-5000 canadian for any of Apple's pro machines (or even a top end LCD iMac) and you get stuck with a few dead pixels, or a funky (noisy/non confidence inspiring HDD) or a wierd optical that will read some discs but not others or fail to eject discs, or a hinge that doesn't close properly, or battery that doesn't align, or a charger that doesn't work right, or paint that starts blistering a few weeks after you've plunked down big money on a Ti, or a GF4 that likes to mess with your LCD. Well, then, expensive purchase or not, you're FVCKED untill Apple decides you've suffered enough, and sometimes it's resolved and other times it isn't.
People always talk about the cost being justified by the quality. I don't doubt that Apple makes very reliable machines, but for the prices they charge, when anything goes wrong they ought to replace or repair the machine immediately.
Easy Tiger, I'm your side, I just have a retarded way of showing it.
<strong>**** off man. I don't need your shirty ass comments. What have I done to you?
Is it supposed to be my fault that a $3000 computer suddenly won't boot up after a few months of use? Wow, I guess I caused that huh. Numerous problems means a beige G3 that was slower than Quadras, that always froze, that I had to personally rescue to get it back up working right. And now that is the computer I'm going to have to use.
If you can't be helpful, THEN SHOVE YOURCOMMENTSUP YOURASS.</strong><hr></blockquote>
are those violins I hear?
you either have bad luck or you do a lot of crap to your computers and then complain when things go wrong.
Sounds like the hard drive failed. you're machine is under warranty, you should be calling Apple not being an ass to those who are trying to offer help to you.
Two years ago I lost a MAJOR paper 60pgs of finished draft. I wrote thing in a few long bursts of creative energy, and damn, re-written it just never sounded the same. I was miserable for a week -- wanted to kill everything in sight -- completely unrecognizable for my normally cheery self.
You back-up, but it happens. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
<strong>**** off man. I don't need your shirty ass comments. What have I done to you?
Is it supposed to be my fault that a $3000 computer suddenly won't boot up after a few months of use? Wow, I guess I caused that huh. Numerous problems means a beige G3 that was slower than Quadras, that always froze, that I had to personally rescue to get it back up working right. And now that is the computer I'm going to have to use.
If you can't be helpful, THEN SHOVE YOURCOMMENTSUP YOURASS.</strong><hr></blockquote>
And you wonder why so many people here edon't like you. And why you had people ****ing aroun with you on AIM and people calling your house and hanging up. You're an *******. Learn how to treat people and then maybe you'll get people to respect you. You gotta respect people to get respect back.