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Well, I returned the laptop to the university. It turns out the person who |
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had it before me had the same problem of OS X not booting sometimes (with the |
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original disk, not the new SSD we installed when I got it). When I got the |
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laptop, I was in fact told that it "wouldn't start", but we understood that to |
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mean "wouldn't turn on". So when it *did* boot from the OS X live system we |
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supposed that it wasn't in fact completely broken. |
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Judging from the nature of the problems I would guess the firmware (EFI) is |
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"broken". Perhaps reflashing it would solve the problems, but the laptop is |
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old enough that the university will probably just buy a new one instead, what |
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with the battery being broken and all. |
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So thanks for the help, but the laptop in question is pretty much officially |
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finished. |
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Greetings |
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Marc Joliet |
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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