OS X Yosemite (base version) installation was attempted on external USB 3.0 disk. Three times it failed with precisely the shutdown failure I have seen previously.
The USB 3.0 disk was disconnected from the system and I tried twice to install the base system to an external USB 2.0 disk. Both yielded the black screen failure.
There is nothing I can do to fix it if I can't even install the base. It seems clear there is a hardware problem as the crash came after it had already booted into the installation system. Whether Flash Player or Martians infect the original system are irrelevant at that point so that leaves only hardware.
Too many other things are going on and there's no money to ship it back to Oregon to PowerMax or take it to the Apple Store here. The only move remaining is to limp along as is or just shut it off and set it to one side until I can deal with it.
What other complications exist are not public. Given the comments yesterday, there's no possible chance they ever will be public.
The USB 3.0 disk was disconnected from the system and I tried twice to install the base system to an external USB 2.0 disk. Both yielded the black screen failure.
There is nothing I can do to fix it if I can't even install the base. It seems clear there is a hardware problem as the crash came after it had already booted into the installation system. Whether Flash Player or Martians infect the original system are irrelevant at that point so that leaves only hardware.
Too many other things are going on and there's no money to ship it back to Oregon to PowerMax or take it to the Apple Store here. The only move remaining is to limp along as is or just shut it off and set it to one side until I can deal with it.
What other complications exist are not public. Given the comments yesterday, there's no possible chance they ever will be public.
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