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- From: gk1@acpub.duke.edu (Gavin Kistner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: EMERGENCY IIfx problem FIXED!
- Summary: "It was a miracle that dun it."
- Message-ID: <8111@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 21:34:12 GMT
- Sender: news@news.duke.edu
- Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.
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- Just in case any of you folk were worrying, the IIfx that wouldn't boot is
- fixed. I don't know if it is posessed or what, but my guess is that it was
- just feeling a bit more ornery than usual because I let strange people play
- games on it.
-
- Really, my only guess is that it was a (the V-word comes) VIRUS. The last
- of all those things I tried was the PRAM zap, but never powered off and on
- again after doing so. I just happened to drop my wallet onto the on button
- as I threw it on the desk, and the computer started up, happy as can be.
- P'rhaps there's a virus which sticks itself into PRAM and doesn't allow
- booting? (Is this possible?)
-
- At least it wasn't a hardware problem. Whew!
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- Gavin Kistner "Damn the hard drive! Full Install ahead!"
- gk1@acpub.duke.edu No, I don't speak for Duke. Duh.
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