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jihad_jain
May 8, 2011


Well, something weird is going on with my main account on my Mac.

Finder keeps crashing constantly upon login, with the icons on my desktop pretty much blinking on and off at about once a second.

It doesn't happen on the other accounts on here, and nothing I've done from googling around has helped at all (verifying disk/repairing disk, which said the disk was fine)

I'm on a mid-2007 2,1 Macbook on 10.6.8.

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jihad_jain
May 8, 2011


Mercurius posted:

Sounds like something might've gone wonky with the com.apple.Finder.plist file in your ~/Library/Preferences folder. Maybe see if you can rename it from one of the other accounts and see if that fixes the problem?

Nope, didn't help at all.

jihad_jain
May 8, 2011


Ok I'm having a problem with bootcamp. It hosed up while rebooting from OS X into Windows 7, and went to a blank black screen. Everytime I Restart it it'll do the mac start up chime before going back to that black screen, and holeing down option or F8 does nothing. Any ideas?

jihad_jain
May 8, 2011


Yeast posted:

SMC reset.

Then this may/may not be relevant.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3173

It didn't do anything. I must've tried that key combo six or seven times.

I've scheduled a genius bar appointment for Wednesday.

jihad_jain
May 8, 2011


Yeast posted:

Have you tried using an alternative keyboard?

So what you're saying is that the machine doesn't give you the option to go to the boot manager, it auto-bots to Windows?

edit: try putting in an OS X disc and then booting to the disc, it may give you the opportunity to break the cycle.

it auto-boots to windows no matter what, and gets hung up on a black screen.
i've tried taking out the hard drive and starting with a backup drive with the same results.

i'd try the disc idea, but i just have a snow leopard disc and i already tried to put my windows disc in it.

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