Sundays lately have been a day of total relaxation around our household. However the ever-rising mountain of laundry made us be a little more active then we normally would have been on such a day. Although I did find enough time in my busy schedule to take a nap with Loki.
After staying up until 4:30am last night (losing that hour to DST sucked!) I stumbled out of bed around 10:30am this morning. Coming into the computer room, I sat down and checked my email. There on my Mac’s dock was the bouncing blue sphere telling me that there were updates from Apple to install. I looked at what was available and most were run of the mill. There was an update for my Airport card, one for iPhoto, and one or two others for some applications. I let the Mac install them and reboot as it requested without thinking.
I really wish I hadn’t.
About 30 minutes after rebooting, my Mac started its random rebooting again. This was one of the issues I had for weeks along with the graphical freeze ups, so I proceeded to reset the PRAM. Knowing already that this is kind of a Mac ‘cure all’ I thought I was in good hands. After rebooting and holding down Option+Command+P+R until it made the happy sound twice, I hoped that I had cured its ills.
I would be mistaken.
Since then, the Mac has continued to randomly reboot whenever it feels like, usually when I am right in the middle of something. In fact I am writing this on my PC for fear that it will reboot on me in mid-sent
Just kidding.
I did notice that after its last random reboot that it can no longer see my external HD. This also started happening during my last round of reboots. I’m not sure if this is a symptom of the issue or part of the issue itself. Right now it’s too late to really worry about this and something I will work on for the the rest of the week. For now, it’s time to end this weekend by going to bed.
