Reinstalled os x mavericks and got locked screen any ideas
Hello all,
During a "fresh" install of mavericks from a usb drive the installation went well until I restarted the unit.
Now it shows a locked screen with an area for some sort of code?
Any ideas on how to fix this?
<rant> Poor apple, they used to make such elegant devices but now they seem like expensive bricked toys....long are the days of booting from a disk and doing a clean install alias....</rant>
i think i have to go through all this lol
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1438822
There's no proof of purchase as I got it second hand.
Seems like everyone thinks this only happens when the computer is stolen?
Ay yai yai
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