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pressing c right after the chime for 2 seconds didn't do anything. Well, I still have my date tomorrow so I'm looking forward to what they have to say as to when exactly and exactly for how long you're supposed to press those keys (for me.

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and I have no clue while at some point on Saturday, the darned thing would only boot from the CD anymore (forcing me to go ahead with the hardware upgrade and install windows only so that I could eject the CD). The one I still cannot get to work (gone through 4 mouses now) is eject the CD.

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so on a PC keyboard, you press the alt button.

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at boot time they are swapped (they say alt and windows are swapped on mac keyboards). but it seems that's only when OSX is active. they say option, and one of my keyboards actually has the mac indicators and option is on windows. So far I managed to do boot from CD (c), Firewire mode (T) as well as boot volume selection (that one was a tricky bastard. but we can say once the power indicator turns blue meaning it gets a signal) and then hold the key for 2-3 seconds. I have the latest Dell 30' screen here and it takes a bit to show a picture after it gets a signal. rather you wait 1-2 seconds (basically shortly before your mouse becomes active (I have a Logitech G5 which is nice enough to indicate when it's active) or when the screen comes on (that might vary though. What I figured out so far is that you don't need to press the modifiers right after the boot chime. I figured I'd give swapping USB ports a whirl and suddenly things started working. I actually managed to get high def content playback with multichannel audio working - it just takes a lot more horsepower than MPC HC.Īs usual, comes cruch time, suddenly there's a solution.

you just need to make it through the culture shock and then reconfigure everything - once you have your keyboard layout and most often used keyboard shortcuts it's just a different (and often with less options available) way of doing things.

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the little guy runs Windows 7 just fine - I couldn't possibly stay with Vista so I went for Windows 7 (the original plan all along but Mac OS proved to be less bad thatn I expected. how does that translate for a MAC?īy the way. And then you have OS options after the beep (like F8 to change into safe mode). RAID controller setup) prior to the boot beep. On a PC, you press the key(s) to enter the BIOS or related things (e.g. I used Ukulele to create my custom keyboard layout to make things more Windows like - though I figure the key remapping only kicks in when OS X is started so it shouldn't influence the boot keys (though just to be sure I tried swapping the alt and control keys in the shortcuts, but also to no avail).Īs for ejecting you need to hold the key for a couple secondsBut when exactly? Do you press the key, keep holding it while you press the power button (kinda hard to do with some shortcuts), then let go when exactly?

something is clearly wrong here and I don't have a mac keyboard to try it with (not that I'd expect anything to change and in the end I prefer my windows keyboard anyway).īTW. Once in many attempts to zap the pram (should be alt-windows-p-r) I instead actually got to see a list of drives to boot from (just one there of course). Then there's the option(windows) button to select a boot volume, right? Well, I can't get that either. I don't have the appropriate screwdriver so I couldn't up the drive and I ended up installing Vista (of all things) just so that I could get the disk out (fortunately the new disc was already in then so I still have my mac disk safe and sound). No matter which mouse key I held down and when, no matter if I tried the F12 key or the space bar, I just couldn't get the CD out, period. I have a standard keyboard, not an Apple one, so option = windows key and alt = command (apple) key.īoot from CD should be pressing c, right? But it took me about 10 approaches to actually get a boot from CD - so when do you press C? After or prior to pressing the power button? Prior or after the 'bing' sound? Or between the bing and the screen going grey?Īnd when the box finally booted from the CD, it then refused to boot back from the harddisk. There's a long story here as well but basically I can't quite get the whole boot keys thing figured out. and prior to upgrading (4 GB ram, SSD disk), I wanted to see if I could figure out the whole booting from the CD or booting from another drive thing out. I'm the proud owner of a 2009 mac mini (long story, I'll eventually write all about it).

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