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    Repeating Firmware Update Message

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by surfacewound, Jul 10, 2007.

  1. surfacewound

    surfacewound Notebook Consultant

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    I ran Apple Update on my Macbook yesterday and evidently one of the updates was a firmware update for the optical drive. '

    Well all the software updated fine, then I rebooted at the prompt, it installed the firmware update for the drive just fine, rebooted at the prompt again, and then this message appeared on the desktop:

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    This message appears EVERY time I boot the computer now. It's like the firmware update got stuck in the startup routine, never removed after the update.

    I'm still new to OS X and have no clue where it keeps settings like this and how to fix it. Is this something I'd need to use Terminal for?

    Help would be appreciated.
     
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  2. wave

    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    Navigate your finder to /System/Library/StartupItems

    remove the update program
     
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  3. surfacewound

    surfacewound Notebook Consultant

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    Ah, I actually looked in the library, but I mistakenly looked in the one from my user account, not the system.

    Anyway, I looked through the StartupItems folder, and I didn't see anything that obviously looked like it could be the problem.

    Any ideas?

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    Sorry my mistake. I am sleepy today. Here you go:

    1. From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
    2. From the View menu, choose Accounts.
    3. Click the Login Items pane.
    4. Select the SuperDrive Update 2.1 in the list of login items.
    5. Click the "–" button to remove the update from the list.
    6. Close the Accounts window.
     
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  5. surfacewound

    surfacewound Notebook Consultant

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    Aha! I looked through the system preferences too but I never thought it could be related to the user account, it totally seemed like a system-level thing to me.

    Thanks a lot.
     
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