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| From | Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.portables, comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: Boot to blue screen -- help on a Saturday? |
| Date | 2015-04-13 13:13 +1200 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <130420151313066294%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink) |
| References | <0001HW.D14F17480402580AB01029BF@news.eternal-september.org> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
In article <0001HW.D14F17480402580AB01029BF@news.eternal-september.org>, DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> wrote: > A friend has an old 2006 15² Macbook Pro with 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. > > Today he finds that it boots to blue screen then automatically boots Chrome. > If he quits Chrome he sees no Finder, no menus, only blue screen. > > Booted in safe mode (hold shift key), he gets to Finder and all seems normal. > > > In Disk Utility, Repair Disk returns ³Drive Seems OK² (paraphrase). Repaired > permissions. > > Rebooted: blue screen and Chrome. > > HD is 120 GB with half that available. > > What else can I suggest to him? > > He has recent backups so if nothing else can reformat the HD and reinstall. > > Thanks. I've never bothered using Spaces (or whatever it's called these days), so it's only a complete guess, but maybe that user account is set to automatically run Chrome in a separate Space by itself ... although I would have thought the menubar would still exist. Another remote possibility is that Chrome (still set to automatically run) has a preference setting to quit everything else.
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Boot to blue screen -- help on a Saturday? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2015-04-11 18:24 -0700
Re: Boot to blue screen -- help on a Saturday? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-13 13:13 +1200
Re: Boot to blue screen -- help on a Saturday? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-04-12 19:16 -0700
Re: Boot to blue screen -- help on a Saturday? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-04-13 10:11 +0100
Re: Boot to blue screen -- help on a Saturday? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2015-04-15 21:38 -0700
Re: Boot to blue screen -- help on a Saturday? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-04-16 07:58 -0400
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