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

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Yes; different symptoms to mine. Mine didn't even get the OS fully installed. It would start installing, and then just churn away without doing anything for hours (well, to be fair, after an hour of not doing anything, the installer itself shuts down internally, looking at its logs; however, the UI for the installer doesn't tell you that it's done this... 8)).