The title pretty much sums it up. I had to take my laptop into the Apple Store to see if they could do anything with it. Was dreading the prospect as the "Genius Bar" tends to be populated by snotty and rather unhelpful people who don't know any more than I do about computers.
However the one at Chestnut Hill is actually rather good. I was pleasantly surprised.
At any rate, the logic board is definitely bad -- sounds like the RAM slots might be busted. Beyond that, it appears that the hard drive has gotten corrupted. Le sigh.
So some of my data is still good, and some ... well, isn't. Everything on that drive is completely unaccessible, which means I'm left to my very incomplete backups. Le double sigh.
This was going to cost me $320.50 to fix -- flat rate for parts, labor, and all. I was not very happy. Then the guy says, "Let me just check your serial number to make sure you don't have AppleCare" -- I thought mine had expired after a year.
Turns out it hadn't. I apparently have a three-year warranty on that computer. So instead of costing me $300, it'll cost me $0.
On the other hand, I got a quote from a data recovery service and they want $500-$2700 to recover my hard drive. How about ... not.
So my laptop is bust, my other computer is great, and I'm half-and-half happy.
-David
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