yep, she'll make a nice paperweight. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:41 PM Subject: Re: system profile states power on self test failed:
In the olden desktop days you could even replace your processor, but descrete socketed components are now a thing of the past. Welcome to disposable computers, even titanium ones. CB David Poehlman wrote: > Heaheaheaha Chris! > > I've had my pbg4 for over three years. <cackle> It runs a mite slow and > that might be the reason. It fails each time I boot according to the time > stamp which does update. On other systems and I'm getting two more within > the next several days, it passes well of course, I don't know <chuckle> > for > sure that it will on the new ones. > > It is deffinitely a hardware issue and that is part of why I'm slipping in > a > new one before this one becomes a tytanium paperweight. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by > theblind" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:04 PM > Subject: Re: system profile states power on self test failed: > > > Sounds like some kind of hardware problem. You're welcome :) > > On my MacBook the diagnostics just sal "Last Run" and a timestamp then > "Result" Passed. Currently the timestamp is 2/12. So that implies it > only happens occasionally. Might be worth trying to trigger the test > again just to make sure it isn't a fluke. From what I've found in > various forums the error message means there is a hardware issue with > your processor and it's not something you can readily fix, short of a > motherboard swap. Since it's a cache you might be able to live with it > as it should just have lower peformance. Or, this could be the first > telltale sign of more bad things to come. You did get the 3 year > extended warranty right? > > CB > > David Poehlman wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> On my powerboook g4, the diagnostic section of system profiler states >> that >> my system power on self test has failed due to an external cache error. >> >> The system seems to be ok otherwise and functioning normally. Does >> anyone >> know what is up and if there is a way to correct this? >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> > > > > >
