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20071101 Thursday November 01, 2007

Mac OS X Leopard Black Screen of Death

What's this?  The Mac OS X Black Screen of Death?  I unplugged my USB 2.0 external drive and got this on the screen.  For the last year using Tiger I never saw this screen.

blackscreen


Even more annoying is the fact that Leopard doesn't recognized my USB 2.0 drive enclosure that I used in Tiger.  If it's a power management issue, please at least give me the option of giving more power to USB even if my battery won't last as long.  BTW, I was not running on battery.  I'm wonder if Apple wants to sell their own external drives so they've cranked the output of the USB ports down to eliminate many devices.  I would hope they wouldn't go this low but who knows. :(  Has anyone else seen this problem?  I found a  similar issue listed on the Apple site but it remains unanswered.

I really would like to stick int out on the Mac but without Java 6 and having to power the machine is worse than being on Windows.  I never thought I would say that.

Posted by david ( Nov 01 2007, 02:54:23 PM MDT ) Permalink Comments [1] del.icio.us | digg | technorati