White Screen Of Death.★

Well, really its grey.

I was trying to install XP, Bootcamp took me to the final bit where you click Install, iMac restarted and I got as far as the choose partition screen of the windows installer.

Noticing that the windows installer had mis-read my partition table as being 130GB rather than the 20GB I had set aside for windows and the 230GB for OSX, I quit the installer using the F3 command it specifies.

Upon restarting, I just got a blank white screen. I restarted again and got a black screen looking rather like DOS asking for some bootable media. After another restart ejecting the XP disk I only get the white screen.

I've tried resetting PRAM, holding option only shows a cursor and a white screen.

You can move the cursor, which is a bonus.

I found a fix here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4225625&#4225625

But I need another working mac for this (or do I? c'mon you brainy lot!).

So I'm stuck here on this wonderful grey windoze box. Right now it has a distinct advantage over my mac, in that it actually works.

What does good old John Public think?

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★ 0 Comments. | By Skippy, Thursday, July 19, 2007 10:23 PM | Links to this post

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