sonicspeed720 Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Here's the story. I was in the process of resetting the SMC (no particular reason, just seemed like a good idea). So, I removed the battery, but I forgot to unplug the power cord. I proceeded to press the power button for 5 seconds as instructed. The laptop turned on. The display did not. The sleep light turned on. Approximately 3 seconds later, the sleep light flashed very quickly a few times. Then the computer reset itself and I heard the familiar chime/grey screen. Everything seems normal. Almost. I can no longer boot into Vista. Also, whenever I turn on my computer, both fans are consistently running at 6000rpm and the third-party app "SMC Fan Control" is no longer able to see my fans. My Tiger installation is fully updated (as of recent). What did I do? Is it somehow related to me being unable to boot into Vista? But, oddly enough, I can view all of my Vista files (they don't seem to be modified. My hard drive appears to be untouched by this) and when I activate my Vista partition, all I get is an infinite scrolling bar with my hard drive neither reading nor writing. So, I am forced to perform a hard shut down. Booting into safe mode also does nothing. My hope is that, whatever I just did to my laptop can be easily undone and I can continue work tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormPCs Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 I'd reset the SMC properly and remake the bootcamp partition, and reinstall Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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