On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 04:47:08PM -0700, Ted Mann wrote: : : Hello! I think that I just fried something in my : Lombard... : : I have recently done some minor upgrades to my : Lombard. I put in more RAM, swapped in a larger HD and : upgraded the OS to Panther. [...] : Well, last night, as I was working with it on my lap, : there was a loud pop, and the computer froze up. : Shortly thereafter, I smelled something like burnt : plastic. After reopening the computer and removing : almost everything, I found a small loose metal piece : in the case under the hard drive. : : Now, I can't boot up from the hard drive. If I reset : the PMU, I can get the computer to boot up from the : Mac OS Install CD; the hard drive will show up on the : desktop and all of my files (thankfully) appear. But : then when I try to set the hard drive as the startup : disk, it will only get as far as the startup sound. No : startup screen appears at all. Using Disk First Aid : didn't help, so I assume that it isn't the hard drive, : but rather something on the motherboard. : : So any ideas on what I did? How can I figure out which : component is at fault?
I don't think the RAM is bad. My guess is something related to the internal hard drive. Have you tried replacing your newer larger HD with the old one? If you have a media bay hard drive enclosure, you can boot from it. -- Eugene Lee eugene at anime dot net -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
