[CUBE] Terrible Problems with 10.2.8 and iChat AV Beta

[Keith Clemence]

Keith Clemence writing,

I am just now back on line. I have never posted here before but read 
this thread before my hard drive crashed. I installed a new, larger, 
faster one now so I'm not upset. I think it is probably coincidence but 
I too started having problems after updating to 10.2.8. They 
progressively got worse and then the original hard drive in my 
unmodified Cube failed. I am running 10.2.6 on this one until I get 
Panther shortly.

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 04:35 PM, Dennis Kleid wrote:

>>
>>
>> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:00:25 +1000
>> From: Heath Raftery <hraftery at myrealbox.com>
>> Subject: Re: [CUBE] Terrible Problems with 10.2.8 and iChat AV Beta
>>
>> Dennis Kleid wrote:
>>
>>> I think this is a terrible way to create "planned obsolescence" e.g. 
>>> destroy the HD with MAC OS 10.2.8 so Mac users will have to buy MAC 
>>> OS 10.3. The iSight should have been bundled with Mac OX 10.3 
>>> (hopefully with an iChat AV program that WORKS), prior to marketing. 
>>> To knowingly sell something that everyone at Apple must know will 
>>> destroy the Mac user's computer's HD is beyond the pale.
>>>
>>
>> Oh come on. Look, you must be upset, but still this is childish. I 
>> run a Cube + Firewire HD + 10.2.8 + iChat AV Beta + the iSight with 
>> no problems at all. Clearly the problem is with your machine. I'd 
>> first be testing the integrity of your hard drive. It sounds as 
>> simple as corrupted data.
>>
>> You claim that your 'HD crashed' but then say something about a 
>> software error (stuck on Apple Logo). What makes you think the HD 
>> crashed? Did you hear something? ... It sounds like it can't find any 
>> OS to boot though. I'm not sure what the screen with the black box is 
>> - it doesn't sound like a kernel panic to me.
>>
>> Good luck
>>
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