Broken Video on a Mac Book Pro
Recent disasters and recovery of a failed video chip on a Mac Book Pro restore my faith in regular backups and leave me impressed with Apple Care. This is a quick accounting of events and resolution.
Tag: OS X
Starting OS X as a Firewire Drive
OS X has a couple of ways to bypass the normal starup process from your main boot device. One extremely useful one (for reasons discussed in a later post) is to start up OS X in “Firewire Target Mode”. If you hold down the “T” key when powering up, the machine will start up as [...]
