Complicated Mac question?
My HD went out on my computer... very randomly I might add. I took it to Genius they couldn't diagnose the problem but said it was probably the HD. went to Microcenter and bought a new HD. Installed a new HD partitioned it, installed Mac OSX. After all thats finished I booted to the install disk and used the time machine to restore my computer. After that was finished I restarted like it told me to. When it did I got some weird computer language crap and a screen that said restart. I did that three more times only to come to the same screen. I zeroed out the drive and started from scratch again.... I want to restore the computer but I'm afraid its going to take me back to that screen. Any ideas?
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Yes. Check the ram.
Missing info:
-- Type of computer (model and processor speed.
-- Version of OS.
You can't get a very good answer if you don't tell us this. Imagine asking about a car problem, but you don't mention which car... well, maybe it is not the best analogy if you also don't know cars.
Long past the other issue: "My HD went out on my computer," but surely you know that is an opinion unless you back it up with the results you saw in Disk Utility. Do you know how to use Disk Utility? Any opinion about the HDD is just an opinion until tested. Disk Utility is for testing.
The "You need to restart" screen is called a kernel panic. It can be caused by a software glitch or a hardware fault. Hardware is more likely. Examples: Bad RAM, bad HDD, bad processor.
Use Disk Utility to test the HDD. Yes, I know it is new, but it only takes five minutes to test it.
Use Rember to test the RAM.
you will have delivered it to apple contained in the 1st place as quickly because it began happening. if the M stopped working by ability of itself, and you didnt smash it, they could restoration it fo fr33 i think.