Joyce ,'Chosen'
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So...my G5 here at work seems to have gone insane. I ran Software Update, installed everything, rebooted, and now the screen won't stop flashing. The desktop icons and Finder folder keep flashing on and off, and it's been doing this for at least 3 minutes.
I turned it off, unplugged it, waited 20 seconds, and then turned it back on again, but it's still doing it.
Help?
Hey there's a new version of Word Perfect Office:
I had completely forgotten about that product. I use OpenOffice at home, and MS Office at work, but I guess some people must use Word Perfect Office. I wonder is Word Perfect still has a strong hold on the legal profession like it seemingly used to. Ok, I really don't wonder that much.
If you hold down the shift key while you boot, you can try to boot in "safe mode".
That sucks. I have no idea.
Do Macs have the equivalent of Windows booting into safe mode?
eta: Tom x-post....
If you hold down the shift key while you boot, you can try to boot in "safe mode".
Okay, I'll try that.
I just put OpenOffice on a computer I'm setting up to give to my aunt. I hope that won't be too mind-blowing in place of Microsoft office. I just don't want to stick on illegal copies and I can't afford to buy Office for her. The computer had XP on it when I got it, so I'm going to gloss over worrying about the OS. Putting on SUSE Linux would just be flat out cruel to my aunt, though my cousins might be able to adapt.
Okay, I'm logged into something called Darwin. What next?
Uhm... Errr...
Darwin is the Unix kernel of MacOS right?
Um, I have no actual advice because I don't know Mac.
I'd suggest going to the Mac support site and seeing if you can find the problem described there. They also have a discussion board for support stuff which is sometimes usefull.