Hi all,
I tried to get my daughter's PB G4 1.67GHz Al book to start up...
Here's what she told me: recently, every time she used the pb with
the power cord, any slight movement and the of the cord would cause
the pb to go off and she had to anchor it so that she could charge
the pb. I thought that she might have a short. The cord wasn't the
original... it looks like the cheaper one you can get from OWC. She
bought a similar cord on ebay and when she plugged it in, nothing
happened. This replacement cord has a green light on it, which didn't
light up. She then took the black extension cord from the cord set
that was failing and tried to use it with the new cord. She still got
a black screen but now a whine came along with it. I wasn't sure if
there was a HD failure so I inserted a 10.1.4 startup CD, the only
one I have besides 10.5 and it's probably the wrong one to have
tried. Now the pb has a CD stuck in it. PITA!
I thought that the PRAM might have gotten corrupt. I took one of my
working original equipment power cords and connected. Black screen
with whine. I zapped the PRAM... same result. I looked up how to
reset the PMU for this model, reset PMU... and got a black screen
with whine. I can also hear the whistle of the CD spinning up each
time I try to start up... but can't eject it. The whine doesn't seem
to sound like a HD problem. If it were the HD, wouldn't we get a
bong, and eventually a question mark because a HD couldn't be found?
I don't know where to go from here except to Apple... I hope that I
can get this solved with your help. Thanks in advance.
dan_A
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