Last week my Pismo 500 failed to boot up from the system disk. Apple Tech diagnosed the problem as a bad DVD-ROM. I ordered a replacement Combo drive (Matsushita CW8123-B) and everything was fine -- for 24 hours. Today I put in a CD to rip to iTunes and got a sound like a jet taking off. Computer crashed hard. Upon attempting to reset, got the same set of symptoms as before -- no chime, momentary flash of screen before going back to black, inability to start with Apple-Option-F-O sequence to reset parameters, etc. Now the best I can manage is a screen frozen on a smiling mac, whether I try to boot from the CD or the hard drive. Did I get lucky and buy a defective drive? Or do I have a processor board problem or some other hardware issue?
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