Getting My Mac Book Pro in Order Post Archive and Install
Hi there,
My 17" Macbook Pro recently closed down on me, giving me three longs beeps and not starting up again. I archived and installed, for the first time ever, and was relieved when my Mac bumped back into life with all of my work and apps stashed away in 'Previous Systems'. I then embarked on going through 'Disk Utility' to create a disk image of the preserved work (I was following advice from the Mac support site) but the down load process was so slow I gave up and have resorted to sorting through the previous system manually and dragging info across into the new setup. I am completely green to this and have no idea if I am doing the right thing?
However, I also have some issues:
My spotlight search does not work, I type in a search item then get the spinning wheel, and spotlight closes down?
I want to reset my mail to just the way it was, with all my old sent and received messages. I can't even get mail to work, I get:
The server error encountered was: The server “[email protected]” cannot be contacted on port 110.
Any advice here?
I am running OSX 10.5 and I tried to do the hardware test but the computer told me it cannot be run on this computer??
Thanks in advance
James
Your profile says you have a Powerbook, and yet your question is regarding a MacBook Pro. MacBook Pros and Powerbooks are totally different machines on the inside. If the issue is with the MacBook Pro, you need the MacBook Pro installer discs to run the hardware test. If it is with a Powerbook, then you need the Powerbook installer discs. If you have the correct discs according to this, it may be your firmware installation at one point failed. That's sometimes the reason for the three long tones. Here's a guide to the tones at startup on Intel Macs (MacBook Pros):
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2538?viewlocale=en_US
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2341
And PowerPC Macs (Powerbooks):
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58442
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