Lombard crashing
Howdy: I have a Lombard 333MHz, 192MB RAM, OS 9.2.2. Been running fine for years. Recently, the end-user reported it began crashing randomly. He sent it back to me and I've had the same problem. It will run fine for a while and then just freeze (no cursor movement but the screen stays on, can't force quit have to reboot using Apple-Ctrl-Power). After crashing, on reboot I get a message that reads The built-in memory test has detected a problem with cache memory. Please contact a service technician for assistance. When I do a reboot before it crashes, I typically do NOT get this message. I've reset PRAM multiple times. I spoke with a genius at the local Apple store and asked if a clean install was worthwhile or a waste of time. He recommended I do it, which I did, and it seemed to resolved the problem and then it returned shortly thereafter. I've tried swapping out both RAM chips from another working machine to no avail. I am either going to reformat the drive and clean install another OS 9.2.2 or just send it back for warranty repair. Can anyone confirm if this is indeed a hardware problem with the cache or whether it is worth doing a reformat and reinstall of OS 9? thanks for you suggestions! ... Eric -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: Lombard crashing
The cache is fubar. This is a known problem with Lombards : http://www.pbzone.com/archive/1002_1thru7.shtml Don't expect to be able to fix it (unless its under extended warranty) or you're interested in replacing the processor with either a second hand one (from a scrapped Lombard) or a processor upgrade... One of mine died like this a few weeks back. Some users have reported their Lombards continue to deteriorate until the point where they won't boot at all. Cheers, Antony. -- == == = = Antony N. Lord = http://antonylord.com = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Perth, Western Australia = == = == -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
12 PB - Creaky Screen Hinge
Hello everybody, My 12 PowerBook's screen hinge used to be silky smooth. Lately however, the hinge has developed a nasty creaking noise and is a bit sticky. Presumably, 3-in-1 is not the best thing to use! Any suggestions? Many thanks, James. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: Lombard Crashing
Laurent Antony: Thank you for responding to my post... I love this list! I've responded below your copied replies below: Speaking of which, did you try reseating the processor daughterboard? It might be possible that with the time or something else, it might have come very slightly lose and maybe with the temperature rising when using the Lombard, it gets to a point where the contacts are loss somewhere between the daughterboard and the motherboard... -Laurent. Yes, when I swapped out the lower RAM chip I had to take out the board and I made especially sure that it was properly seated when it went back in. Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 23:06:38 +0800 From: Antony N. Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lombard crashing The cache is fubar. This is a known problem with Lombards : http://www.pbzone.com/archive/1002_1thru7.shtml Don't expect to be able to fix it (unless its under extended warranty) or you're interested in replacing the processor with either a second hand one (from a scrapped Lombard) or a processor upgrade... One of mine died like this a few weeks back. Some users have reported their Lombards continue to deteriorate until the point where they won't boot at all. Cheers, Antony Antony - this is what I suspected... I knew I'd seen this pop up before but as we only have one Lombard I wasn't certain. Thank you for the heads up. Luckily this machine is on extended warranty thru January of 2004 so they will repair it I won't waste my time messing with it any further... Eric On 03/09/03 09:37, Eric Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy: I have a Lombard 333MHz, 192MB RAM, OS 9.2.2. Been running fine for years. Recently, the end-user reported it began crashing randomly. He sent it back to me and I've had the same problem. It will run fine for a while and then just freeze (no cursor movement but the screen stays on, can't force quit have to reboot using Apple-Ctrl-Power). After crashing, on reboot I get a message that reads The built-in memory test has detected a problem with cache memory. Please contact a service technician for assistance. When I do a reboot before it crashes, I typically do NOT get this message. I've reset PRAM multiple times. I spoke with a genius at the local Apple store and asked if a clean install was worthwhile or a waste of time. He recommended I do it, which I did, and it seemed to resolved the problem and then it returned shortly thereafter. I've tried swapping out both RAM chips from another working machine to no avail. I am either going to reformat the drive and clean install another OS 9.2.2 or just send it back for warranty repair. Can anyone confirm if this is indeed a hardware problem with the cache or whether it is worth doing a reformat and reinstall of OS 9? [end] -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Which Powerbook?
My wife is buying a new Powerbook to go with her new teaching job. So the question is, which one? My suggestion is for the 12 G4. My reasoning is that it represents the most recent technology, where the 15 TiBook is a bit older design and the iBook even older with a G3 processor. It also is very small and light--a plus. Still, it would be nice to have a bigger screen than the 12. If that were so, how would the 14 iBook go versus the 867mhz TiBook. Any thoughts or suggestions? -- -- Jim Eddy James Eddy Woodworks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mount Pleasant, MI http://home.earthlink.net/~jameseddywoodworks -- The secret to staying calm in a crisis is in not knowing all the facts. Lefty, Lives of the Cowboys -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: Which Powerbook?
on 9/3/03 9:59 PM, Jim Eddy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Her needs are: email and internet access,, at school and at home Word processing (MS Word) for academic writing. Possible multimedia presentations in class--probably Powerpoint since the IT at the university is predominantly PC. We will need to learn this, as neither of us have any real experience, but students are increasingly expecting glitz in their presentations. The 12 is perfect for what she needs to do. The portability is a big plus here. N -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: Which Powerbook?
The speed tests I've seen put the iBook even or faster than the little Al Book, except when using software that uses the G4's altivec. IBooks get more run time when on battery power, especially the 14. What you describe your wife will be doing the iBook will handle no sweat. Worked as computer tech in High School this past year. We had approx. 120 ibooks in use, around 40 used by teachers. Never heard one complaint about speed and most of them were using 600mhz/700mhz ibooks doing exactly what you say your wife will do. We used iBooks to do all our presentations. Very easy. Bought my son a 800mhz 12 iBook for Christmas, we haven't been disappointed. That said, the practical advantages to the Al book are it has airport extreme, they're now making Gig ram chips for it (doubles ibook)(in the OS X era that can be important), and it has the way cool aluminum exterior. If I were you I'd buy an ibook and spend what I saved not getting the al book on an ipod.(Apple had special deal on ibook/ipod purchase). In a year, if it's not fast enough, sell it and buy a new G5 laptop. Just my 2 cents. Matt On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 06:08 PM, Jim Eddy wrote: My wife is buying a new Powerbook to go with her new teaching job. So the question is, which one? My suggestion is for the 12 G4. My reasoning is that it represents the most recent technology, where the 15 TiBook is a bit older design and the iBook even older with a G3 processor. It also is very small and light--a plus. Still, it would be nice to have a bigger screen than the 12. If that were so, how would the 14 iBook go versus the 867mhz TiBook. Any thoughts or suggestions? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Wallstreet hinges pics
I just took some pics for the Wallstreet-hinge-page I intend to eventually construct and in the meantime thought a contact sheet might be of some interest: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/macdan/images/hinge.jpg Broken hinges and a pair of still-good-hinges with my breakage-prevention-solution(?) :-) I hope, anyway. What I found interesting and what got me photographing was my discovery of where an awful lot of the screen free-play originates (at least in the parts I have.) The steel hinge 'pin' is very small where it is stuffed into the pot-metal frame of the LCD support. The end of the frame has a hole and the hinge pin is retained inside that hole with some tiny splines. There's an awful load on such a small area and most play I see is in the hinge_pin-to-support location rather than in the clutch area. As for my breakage-prevention-solution, I figured since typically Wallstreet hinges fail when the clutch pack breaks apart its housing, if I reinforced the housing area it might make it tougher for it to spread out the housing and begin to break. I used some thin but stout steel sheeting to fab a pair of clips to surround the clutch housings where the stress is the greatest (I think.) The pair of clips you'll see on the hingepin are part of a set of 11 (or 12? I'm not sure now), and they tightly grip the hingepin to provide the clutch action. They're captured inside the clutch housing by their two little feet caught under slots in either side of the housing's interior. As the display is opened and closed those little feet push with all their might against the slots, evetually tearing free as the housing spreads apart and breaks open. Ideally I'd have used a flat steel ring forced onto the rectangular shape of the housing to completely surround the breakage-prone-area, but as I had nothing on hand of a proper size I just fabbed a 'C' shaped clip instead. My greatest concern is that any force great enough to spread out the sides of the clutch housing will probably spread my 'C' clip as well. However, I'm convinced the clutch housing is now stronger than it was and as this is just a hobby 'Book anyway, it won't see much use before I tear it apart and re-do it 'properly'. I also forced some grease into the clutch assembly, I 'think' that smoothed out the action a tad. Wheel bearing grease, in case yer wondering. Hey, it's all I had on the nearby basement shelf, and I was much too lazy to trudge upstairs to look for anything else. :-) One last thought . . . if somehow one could remove a couple of the clips from each hinge it would ease the stress on the housing and reduce the likelyhood of failure. However, I have no idea how greatly that would affect the ability of the LCD to remain upright . . . h Anyway, view the pics and let me know what you think, Dan K . http://macdan.n3.net/ carracho://dankephoto.dhs.org:9700 hotline://dankephoto.dhs.org:9500 . -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
