Juliet Elysa
Well-known member
Hi all. The Wikipedia article about "Power-on self-test" talks a little bit about the Macintosh POST. It says this about Macs after 1998:
"In the event of an error, but not a fatal hardware error, they display the same screen as seen when holding ⌘ Command+⌥ Option+O+F at startup but with the error message instead of the "0 >" prompt"
I'm assuming the article's correct, since the in-line citation for that statement is a page on the Apple website (the link doesn't work, it seems ).
My question is, does anyone have a picture of the screen and a list of possible errors? I'm having issues getting the prompt to show up on my blueberry iMac (it's probably operator error, I seem to encounter a lot of those these days ) and I'm curious. Honestly I've been wondering about this for several months to a year, and it literally just occurred to me to post something here. :lol:
Thanks!
"In the event of an error, but not a fatal hardware error, they display the same screen as seen when holding ⌘ Command+⌥ Option+O+F at startup but with the error message instead of the "0 >" prompt"
I'm assuming the article's correct, since the in-line citation for that statement is a page on the Apple website (the link doesn't work, it seems ).
My question is, does anyone have a picture of the screen and a list of possible errors? I'm having issues getting the prompt to show up on my blueberry iMac (it's probably operator error, I seem to encounter a lot of those these days ) and I'm curious. Honestly I've been wondering about this for several months to a year, and it literally just occurred to me to post something here. :lol:
Thanks!