Problems with my Hard Drive?
Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me out with my problem. I am becomming familiar with the parts of my comp because I have a powerbook bronze pismo. For a while (after I accidentally dropped it, a short distance, but still gave it a jolt) it has been making clunking noises. I am thinking that the hard drive took the brunt of the impact and something was loosened or knocked out of place making these noises. In any case, it was stalling a lot and having issues but still worked. Now, I push the power button and the monitor comes on fine, the cd rom checks to see if there's a disc in it, and then nothing. No apple (tho the screen is grey like it's supposed to be) no circular waiting icon, nothing. The hard drive isn't booting up at all. I am assuming this is a broken hard drive, but I don't want to go out and buy one before I get some opinions. I also don't want to spend 45 bux for someone to tell me something I already know (a pro just checking to see what the problem is hmph). Thanks in advance for any help.. i LOVE my machine and want it back up and running again soon. Thanks again! -Morgen -- 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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Problems with my Hard Drive?
on 09/10/05 03:08, Morgen Schuler at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me out with my problem. I am becomming familiar with the parts of my comp because I have a powerbook bronze pismo. For a while (after I accidentally dropped it, a short distance, but still gave it a jolt) it has been making clunking noises. I am thinking that the hard drive took the brunt of the impact and something was loosened or knocked out of place making these noises. In any case, it was stalling a lot and having issues but still worked. Now, I push the power button and the monitor comes on fine, the cd rom checks to see if there's a disc in it, and then nothing. No apple (tho the screen is grey like it's supposed to be) no circular waiting icon, nothing. The hard drive isn't booting up at all. I am assuming this is a broken hard drive, but I don't want to go out and buy one before I get some opinions. I also don't want to spend 45 bux for someone to tell me something I already know (a pro just checking to see what the problem is hmph). Thanks in advance for any help.. i LOVE my machine and want it back up and running again soon. Your hard disk is most definitely broken. -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mainframe: n. Term originally referring to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a room-filling Stone Age batch machine. After the emergence of smaller `minicomputer' designs in the early 1970s, the traditional big iron machines were described as `mainframe computers' and eventually just as mainframes. The term carries the connotation of a machine designed for batch rather than interactive use, though possibly with an interactive timesharing operating system retrofitted onto it; it is especially used of machines built by IBM, Unisys, and the other great dinosaurs surviving from computing's Stone Age. -- 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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Problems with my Hard Drive?
At 12:08 AM -0700 10/09/2005, Morgen Schuler wrote: I have a powerbook bronze pismo. Before digging into the interior, identify your PB properly: The 1998 PowerBook G3, called the Wallstreet, is a black PowerBook, thicker than the others, and has the family number M4753 on its bottom. The 1999 PowerBook G3, called the Lombard or Bronze Keyboard, is a black PowerBook and has the family number M5343 on its bottom. The 2000 PowerBook G3, called the G3 FireWire or Pismo, is a black PowerBook with the family number M7572 on its bottom. This is the only black PowerBook with FireWire ports. For a while (after I accidentally dropped it, a short distance, but still gave it a jolt) it has been making clunking noises. In addition to the HD, there are a number of components in a PB that can come loose. it was stalling a lot and having issues but still worked. Now, I push the power button and the monitor comes on fine, the cd rom checks to see if there's a disc in it, and then nothing. No apple (tho the screen is grey like it's supposed to be) no circular waiting icon, nothing. The hard drive isn't booting up at all. You're getting a proper BONG, not a chord or the sound of breaking glass? Boot from your OS CD. If that works, try running Disk First Aid from the CD. See if it can talk to and repair the drive... If you cannot boot from the CD, there's something more serious going on than just a dying HD. IMO the PB G3's are nice machines. Well worth digging into to repair them, if you have the patience. I've delt with several that were dropped. Mostly the damage was limited to loosened cables, cache cards, DIMMs, etc. Haven't seen a laptop HD die from a simple fall recently... they're tough critters, designed for high-shock. FWIW, - Dan. -- 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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
