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My only experience w/apple care or apple stores in general was on my PowerBook G4 1.33GHz 15in.

The HDD went bad so they replaced it and upgraded my OS from Panther to Tiger. I had backed up all the data before the HDD went bad so idk what they did with it. /shrug

As far as file vault goes, i haven't used it.. i've heard to many horror stories of stuff not coming back.

Sadly though I would image that your iMac will be gone for at least a week and a half given that it sounds like a MoBo replacement. (and thats being kind)

In the mean time if you must have a computer... (and you have some extra cash) buy a computer at Walmart and return it 14 days later. I've done it

external HD Bren.

clone to it.
wipe internal and reinstall basic OS.
send to Apple with only the original 512 in it.

cut back on your porn videos while Mac is in for repair.
or just do the ugly ones so you can deny it.

to answer one of your many questions tho, yes, G5 iMac 20"
called em. they gave me an RA# and emailed me the shipping labels.
dropped off at shippers and said iMac was returned with functional ram slot in 7 working days.

My MBP will connect to another network that it does not have the password for. It looks connected; no message (may change that in settings), and I see full bars in the Menu bar, but is not as the password has never been entered and therefore is not in the keychain. This happens after my MBP goes to sleep and then is awoken only sometimes - it's unpredictable.

So anyway, I use Safari only. When my MBP goes to sleep and awakes on this other network, whatever I began typing in a forum gets wiped after I get the "You are not connected to the internet" message which blanks out the page. I can never retrieve what I was writing which is very irritating as it has happened more than once, happened tonight in fact. Would this NOT happen using FF?

That first post is some classic smurf. Hats off to ya.

wellfleation wrote:

My MBP will connect to another network that it does not have the password for. It looks connected; no message (may change that in settings), and I see full bars in the Menu bar, but is not as the password has never been entered and therefore is not in the keychain. This happens after my MBP goes to sleep and then is awoken only sometimes - it's unpredictable.

So anyway, I use Safari only. When my MBP goes to sleep and awakes on this other network, whatever I began typing in a forum gets wiped after I get the "You are not connected to the internet" message which blanks out the page. I can never retrieve what I was writing which is very irritating as it has happened more than once, happened tonight in fact. Would this NOT happen using FF?

Dude, you posted this in the wrong thread. I understand how you wound up here, but still...

Try smoking just one joint, instead of the entire eighth, before posting.

I'd be a bit nervous about the poor bastard who has to hear my complaints if they don't fix it for free.

I'm guessing there's not any noticeable, physical damage to the RAM slot anyway. It's probably one of those weird, electrical bugaboos that happen for reasons beyond my understanding. We'll see...

Okey-dokey, I still haven't handled this issue, but I'm a lot closer, 'cause I got me a 1TB external drive today.

Now then, MacNuke says "clone" my internal hard drive and then wipe it clean.

How, exactly, do I want to go about doing this? Are we talking about using Disk Utility to make an image of the entire internal HD, which I'll store on the external one? And when I get my iMac back, can I just copy that image onto the internal HD and expect it to be bootable and everything to be just as it was?

My other thought is to install OS X on the external drive, 'cause I recall that during the setup process, the installer asks if you want to copy your settings 'n' stuff over from another computer or drive. If I do this, what won't get copied over?

Assuming something won't be copied over, I figure I can just drag-and-drop it on over. My only concern is not knowing what's been automatically migrated over and what may have been omitted. I'm thinking about hidden or invisible files and what-not.

Thanks as always for your guidance!

So I used the OS X disk that came with my iMac to install OS X 10.5 on the external drive and it asked me if I wanted to copy over all my settings, files, and software from another Mac or another disk. Naturally I said "yes," and it seems to have gone off without a hitch. The installer warned me that certain apps might need to be re-installed, but when the process was done, the only app it reported having an issue with was USB Overdrive, which I've never actually used and don't care about.

Photoshop didn't even need to be re-serialized!

Compared to the last time I tried this, which was on a G4 Mac Mini, it seems that Apple's really improved the process.

Hmmm...  I wonder which is better in this case:  Migration Assistant or CCC ?

Well I'm now a bit happier with Apple's handling of this situation. I finally made an appointment at the Genius Bar and brought my iMac in earlier this evening. I was assuming I'd have to drop it off and wait a week for them to get a new motherboard in.

Much to my surprise, the guy took my Mac in back to verify that the RAM slot wasn't working, and then came back out and said that the new motherboard would probably arrive on Monday or Tuesday, and that I didn't need to leave my iMac until then; they'd just call me when the MB arrived, and I could then drop the computer off!

This is very excellent; a way of doing things that actually makes sense, and minimizes the customer's inconvenience!

I sure wouldn't expect such good service from Geek Squad!

Also, the guy was giving me their standard disclaimer about possible data loss, and seemed pleasantly surprised that I'd already wiped the drive. So thanks for the good advice, MacNuke. I was too lazy to pull my third-party RAM out of the computer, but given that they'll be doing the work in-house, as opposed to shipping my Mac somewhere, I have a feeling they'll probably be able to do this without losing my RAM.