Jmac- wrote:First white screen of death I got was doing the following:
Insert Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Disc
Double-Click Install
Click on Restart
After restart, screen came up white and would not proceed any further.
After I finally got it to actually boot into OS X, it then told me to install updates. Installed the updates, clicked on restart, and upon the restart, guess what ? That's right, white screen of death.
It also randomly boots into a blue screen of death as well and occasionally will give me a black screen of death while watching movies. I must be clicking the mouse wrong or pushing the power button wrong or holding the remote wrong or something ...
I can say Vista has been far more stable than Leopard for me. And I don't suppose you've looked on the internet about how many people have been having problems w/ Leopard, have you ? It's basically Apple's Vista as far as bad PR goes ... :shrug: At least MS doesn't edit your posts when you post your problems in their forums because "blue screen of death" is "distasteful"
So your Mac was previously an OS Tiger I suppose? So was mine. I upgraded my OS Tiger to Leopard. So far, nothing wrong. I hope your disc isn't a fake and you bought it legally.. You should go to an Apple store to get it checked.
Jmac- wrote:I can say Vista has been far more stable than Leopard for me. And I don't suppose you've looked on the internet about how many people have been having problems w/ Leopard, have you ? It's basically Apple's Vista as far as bad PR goes ...
You gotta be kidding right? I had a BSOD in Vista the first week I had my Acer. If you haven't noticed, Leopard's reviews are by far nothing close to Vista's. Leopard's too advanced to even be close enough to Vista, far by MILES I can safely say. I trust Apple more than Microsoft.
BTW, if you're referring to me, I'm using an Acer Travelmate.
Uh, yeah, I got OS X Leopard free from work, n00bx. Yes, it's a legit copy complete w/ the documentation. Working for an Apple reseller has its benefits ...
You're basing your opinion of Vista on a $500 junk laptop, I'm basing my opinion of OS X on a $2500 iMac. Leopard's reviews look better because Apple edits and deletes the ones they don't like. Try to find my review on Apple.com ... You won't find it because Apple deleted it ... I also find it funny how Apple is warring w/ Tom's Hardware because of their articles pointing out Leopard's flaws, especially given Tom's pro-Apple stance in the past ... Hardly a company worth trusting, IMO (not that Microsoft is, either) ...
Jmac- wrote:First white screen of death I got was doing the following:
Insert Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Disc
Double-Click Install
Click on Restart
After restart, screen came up white and would not proceed any further.
After I finally got it to actually boot into OS X, it then told me to install updates. Installed the updates, clicked on restart, and upon the restart, guess what ? That's right, white screen of death.
It also randomly boots into a blue screen of death as well and occasionally will give me a black screen of death while watching movies. I must be clicking the mouse wrong or pushing the power button wrong or holding the remote wrong or something ...
I can say Vista has been far more stable than Leopard for me. And I don't suppose you've looked on the internet about how many people have been having problems w/ Leopard, have you ? It's basically Apple's Vista as far as bad PR goes ... :shrug: At least MS doesn't edit your posts when you post your problems in their forums because "blue screen of death" is "distasteful"
So your Mac was previously an OS Tiger I suppose? So was mine. I upgraded my OS Tiger to Leopard. So far, nothing wrong. I hope your disc isn't a fake and you bought it legally.. You should go to an Apple store to get it checked.
Jmac- wrote:I can say Vista has been far more stable than Leopard for me. And I don't suppose you've looked on the internet about how many people have been having problems w/ Leopard, have you ? It's basically Apple's Vista as far as bad PR goes ...
You gotta be kidding right? I had a BSOD in Vista the first week I had my Acer. If you haven't noticed, Leopard's reviews are by far nothing close to Vista's. Leopard's too advanced to even be close enough to Vista, far by MILES I can safely say. I trust Apple more than Microsoft.
BTW, if you're referring to me, I'm using an Acer Travelmate.
Uh, yeah, I got OS X Leopard free from work, n00bx. Yes, it's a legit copy complete w/ the documentation. Working for an Apple reseller has its benefits ...
You're basing your opinion of Vista on a $500 junk laptop, I'm basing my opinion of OS X on a $2500 iMac. Leopard's reviews look better because Apple edits and deletes the ones they don't like. Try to find my review on Apple.com ... You won't find it because Apple deleted it ... I also find it funny how Apple is warring w/ Tom's Hardware because of their articles pointing out Leopard's flaws, especially given Tom's pro-Apple stance in the past ... Hardly a company worth trusting, IMO (not that Microsoft is, either) ...
@Jmac-: the same thing happened to me but we didn't install lepeord, and it is a common problems with macs and just to break it to you it is going to cost a lot of money: meaning that you are going to have to get a new motherboard, or it is the memory slot is busted.
take it from me because it happened to me and I know how much it costed to get it fixed, about $500-$600 it costs to get a new motherboard
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yeah, but I don't have to worry because it is my sisters laptop not mine, and the only thing I use it for is photoshop, but since its broken I haven't been able to make any new sigs.
speaking of sigs, S2K didn't I ask you to make me a Crysis sig like 2-3 weeks ago and you said you would
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I hate vista now. All my games lagged like hell, so I spent a whole day dedicated to restoring XP, and I finished. I love XP because it doesn't use almost any of my CPU nonstop and the games run 5x smoother. On vista I couldn't even get the EA Games logo video to show up on Crysis because it was like 0.002 frames per second, on a VIDEO FILE.
Running the game on Vista is possible. But keeping it on stable condition, it's hardly possible. GCA ran Crysis on PC's with Vista, and 3/4 of the computers crashed.
How about this... If you've only used Vista for a short amount of time, (Let's say, less than 1-2 months,) then don't post... unless you're just going to say that you haven't used it for more than 1-2 months, but seeing as that's off-topic, don't post it. So if that's the case, don't post.
(I'm not saying people here haven't used it for that long, I'm just trying to make sure people that used it for a week and thought it was to hard to use don't say it's crap.)
I have the same OS-es like Stereo, XP Pro and Vista Business. I run Crysis on 1280x720 on high with some options at medium.I have an AMD X64 at 2.8Ghz(I'm proud of him) , nVidia 8500 GT 512MB and 3GB of RAM. It's not a supercomputer, but it runs Crysis on high even on Vista.