Something has gone wrong on my friends Mac...

jesta · 2 Dec 2007 at 12:04

Hey guys,
a few days ago my mate was installing the updates for his macbook and I believe his macbook must have crashed or something and now everytime he turns his macbook on it always ask him to restart his macbook.It has some form of coding written top left of the screen with something about ACPI driver missing.

Does anyone know how to fix ths?

Thanks.

theheyes · 2 Dec 2007 at 12:21

Maybe this post will help. Its a bit technical though.

http://www.macfixitforums.com/showthreaded.php?Board=tiger&Number=827659

MagicBoy · 2 Dec 2007 at 13:14

Good tip that.

Had the same problem myself about 6 months ago when I tried McAfee AV (just to see what it was like) and it killed Tiger with an ACPI error. Ended up doing an Archive and Reinstall.

theheyes · 2 Dec 2007 at 13:35

Did you Archive and Reinstall just by booting from the DVD? If so thats probably a better solution (easier).

Deleted member 651465 · 2 Dec 2007 at 17:11

Hold down D when you boot up, to boot from the disk (Assuming it's already in the Mac).

jesta · 2 Dec 2007 at 17:20

theheyes said:
Did you Archive and Reinstall just by booting from the DVD? If so thats probably a better solution (easier).

How does the Archive reinstall work?Do you lose all your files?(Sorry I'm a n00b on Macs)

Something has gone wrong on my friends Mac...

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