[Ti] Big Al note

Robert Ameeti robert at ameeti.net
Thu Mar 20 23:23:38 PST 2003


>At 8:36 PM -0800 3/20/03, Hes Nikke wrote:
>
>>The Hardware Test CD doesn't run the Mac OS, it runs it's own OS that is
>>_very_ closely tied to the hardware that it goes with. In other words, you
>>can't boot a PowerBook G4 Hardware test in a PowerMac G4, for that matter,
>>you can't even boot it in a PowerBook G3 (FireWire) even though they are
>>virtually the same machine.
>>
>>This is done to make absolutely sure that it isn't a software issues that
>>could be causing errors.
>
>But that doesn't explain why this is the first Macintosh I've bought in maybe the last 5 years that didn't come with a Hardware Test CD-ROM.

But have you ever found any of them to find anything that was already known?
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Robert Ameeti
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