HELP! SPARKEDIT BROKE MY COMPUTER!!

sword · Post by **sword** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 7:12 pm

Sparkedit is built with the Cocoa and OpenGL frameworks while its run privileges are in no way enhanced. This means that it shouldn't have a chance to access, modify, or destroy any of the system files that might cause this.

My thought about this is that, since you were using OpenGL rendering at the time, your video card or logic board may have burned out. Several years ago I had an iMac G3 who's logic board and video card went out at separate times. I remember that in the case of the logic board the computer's screen flashed a bunch of weird colors and wouldn't really start. With the video card, the computer just flat out wouldn't work (which makes me think that the apple "genius" may have diagnosed it incorrectly). My suggestion is that you send the computer into Apple to have them fix it. Otherwise, if you can somehow get your disks in and working, run a system hardware check.

Moxus · Post by **Moxus** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 3:38 am

potatoes compy is broke wrote:ARGH ILL SAY IT AGAIN!

anything that involves "hold X and Y while starting up" DOESNT WORK! THE FIRMWARE DOESNT LOAD!

as for the lappy 486 thing, its a http://www.homestarrunner.com joke.

Bear in mind that we're not a technical staff, we're a bunch of Halo/Halo Demo modders.

-=Moxus=-

potatoe · Post by **potatoe** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:22 am

im sorry for losing it there but, im fairly pissed off. thanks for posting sword, that does sound like the problem. ah well, this is just the chance i need for a new laptop, because my new new macbook is in applecare because of my sister stepping on the screen. and yes, the flashy colors thing is what happened. oh well.

sword · Post by **sword** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:07 pm

This may help a little bit advice wise:

http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/i ... 72875.html

or

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73866

Basically you'll need to get it in to be repaired. Hope this helps!

P!ckoff · Post by **P!ckoff** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:30 am

Jeez. I thought I had problems. A iMac g4 10.3.9 that often takes me 4 tries to get it to boot, it just stays blank grey and a folder with a flashing question mark pops up..... And for some odd reason it cannot apply permissions to enclosed items..... hell when I accidentally renamed my user....

Heh. Also, off-topic, does anyone here have a MacBook? Not a MacBook Pro. I want to know if you can run Halo on it, I have heard that it doesn't have a video card.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:11 pm

Kayar wrote:No you didn't, Chuck Norris did.

Totally. Chuck Norris wins everything.

Anyway back on topic, maybe it wasn't sparkedit, maybe it was a virus that incidentally killing your computer at the exact moment you opened/used sparkedit. Don't send everything to another computer, it might give that computer that virus.

P!ckoff · Post by **P!ckoff** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:52 pm

Yeah. Sure.

What are the chances of a) a Mac getting a virus and b)i it showing up at the exact same time as he opened SE.

I think we can put this to rest with a simple "it burned out your v-card"

potatoe · Post by **potatoe** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:04 pm

TOPIC OVER THE GREAT SWORD HAS FIGURED OUT THE PROBLEM!

moving on.

zapconquest · Post by **zapconquest** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:11 pm

P!ckoff wrote:Heh. Also, off-topic, does anyone here have a MacBook? Not a MacBook Pro. I want to know if you can run Halo on it, I have heard that it doesn't have a video card.

Yeah, my bro has one. You can run it but you have to use software graphics because it has no graphics card. It's laggy even with lowest settings but you can play it.

Mota-Lev · Post by **Mota-Lev** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 4:30 pm

My sisters Macbook runs better halo then my mums Macbook Pro.... Its twisted.

P!ckoff · Post by **P!ckoff** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:13 pm

All I want to know is if it runs it better than a iMac G4 Flat Panel with 256 MB or ram, possibly no vRam.

zapconquest · Post by **zapconquest** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:11 pm

I would guess that the macbook is worse than the G4.

sword · Post by **sword** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:27 pm

P!ckoff wrote:Jeez. I thought I had problems. A iMac g4 10.3.9 that often takes me 4 tries to get it to boot, it just stays blank grey and a folder with a flashing question mark pops up..... And for some odd reason it cannot apply permissions to enclosed items..... hell when I accidentally renamed my user....

Heh. Also, off-topic, does anyone here have a MacBook? Not a MacBook Pro. I want to know if you can run Halo on it, I have heard that it doesn't have a video card.

Boot up from the first Mac install disk and then go into disk repair, run a full check, and then repair the disk.

http://8help.osu.edu/1244.html

Either that or your harddrive is getting fucked over and you may lose all of your files at any time. You might want to check that out

Moxus · Post by **Moxus** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:14 am

P!ckoff wrote:... and a folder with a flashing question mark pops up...

Yeah. That indicates that it can't find your system folder.

-=Moxus=-

KoRnDoG · Post by **KoRnDoG** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 7:16 am

something like this happened to me once. kinda. but i was playing UT 2004 and it just stopped. so i shut it down to restart it and the fan was like WEERAHHHHHHERAHAHAHERHEHEA n stuff and it wouldnt turn back on. turns out the processor was screwed and it cost me (by me i mean my dad) a good $800 to fix.

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