Bad news and some slightly good news

[viktor_haag]

Well, my home computer is almost certainly bricked at this point. Repeated attempts to install from the Leopard DVD have met with no success. I suppose there is a chance that my Leopard DVD has become hosed so, I suppose step one is to get a replacement disc and try it with that. If that doesn't work, then it's off to the repairshop with the desktop, fingers crossed that the problem is a faulty DVD drive or controller (in short, something which is replaceable at not hideous expense). The sadness of this tale is, of course, that all this happens a month after the Applecare extended warranty has passed. Bastards.

I strongly suspect the DVD drive for two reasons:

- the Leopard media successfully installed on my work machine not 12 hours previously

- the home computer seemed to operate with nothing much in the way of problems for the past two years (since the warranty repair on the factory hard-drive fault)

I hope that it really is just a bad Leopard disc, but I fear that it's more likely that my computer has a hardware problem of some kind. I just hope it's not expensive, now that it'll be on my dime.

Comments

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

It's been my experience that most machines really don't like it when you upgrade they're operating system - at least my don't. They tend to get cranky and work more slowly like a septegenarian Brit expected to convert to metric.

Good luck!

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

When you do an "upgrade", I totally agree. However, my standing policy is to an "archive and install", which isn't really an upgrade. It's more like a "fresh install without clobbering your basic configuration or user preferances". Ever since Apple included this option with their OS releases, I've used it to good results. Except this time. Feh.