Re: is my powerbook dead?
While it eliminates your hard drive it does not eliminate other possibilities such as a loose connection or perhaps a cracked circuit board. It's my understanding that Apple has a flat charge for repairing Powerbooks. If you are not comfortable doing a teardown rebuild yourself, it may pay for you to take it to them for repair. Just a thought. Joe Ellis - Original Message - From: Brendan McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 5:27 PM Subject: Re: is my powerbook dead? Haven't dropped it recently, but it does take its share of abuse in my shoulder bag when I ride the subway, carry it to school / work for the last 3 years. I tried connecting and booting up from an external firewire drive and I get the same results. This would eliminate the internal drive as a problem, and would also eliminate kernel panics because of the OS 10.2.8 update as the machine displayed the same issue when booting from an external drive with a fresh install of jaguar. Should I just chalk this up to wear and tear finally taking its toll? It doesn't always lock up when I move it, and sometimes it just locks when I am doing random things like writing an email, or unplugging the power cord. argh...i wanted to wait for a G5 powerbook, but it looks like I may have a trip to the apple store in my immediate futureanyone have any other ideas or similar experiences? TIA Brendan On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 02:58 PM, Joe Ellis wrote: - Original Message - From: Brendan McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 1:57 PM Subject: Re: is my powerbook dead? Did that alreadystill no dice. The machine locks up at random times, like when I plug in the power cord (sometimes) or when I move the machine. I think its just on its way out. Any other ideas? You may have a hard drive that's going bad, have you tried booting it off a firewire drive, plugging it in, and moving it and getting lockups implies that something may be loose and floating around inside the case causing flakey operation, have you dropped it recently? Joe Ellis -- 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 --- -- 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 --- -- 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: is my powerbook dead?
Thanks Seeing as I need this laptop for work / school (I use it from 8AM until I go to sleep) I can't afford to be without it for any period of time. Today I rode up to the apple store in soho, plunked down my credit card, and walked out with a new 15 AlBook. The machine is amazing. Once I've migrated everything off the old TiBook, I'm going to run it as an MP3 serverthat is after I tear it apart to find out what the problem was. Thanks for the helpIt would have been nice to have been spared the expense of the new laptop, but oh well Brendan On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 08:55 AM, Joe Ellis wrote: While it eliminates your hard drive it does not eliminate other possibilities such as a loose connection or perhaps a cracked circuit board. It's my understanding that Apple has a flat charge for repairing Powerbooks. If you are not comfortable doing a teardown rebuild yourself, it may pay for you to take it to them for repair. Just a thought. Joe Ellis - Original Message - From: Brendan McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 5:27 PM Subject: Re: is my powerbook dead? Haven't dropped it recently, but it does take its share of abuse in my shoulder bag when I ride the subway, carry it to school / work for the last 3 years. I tried connecting and booting up from an external firewire drive and I get the same results. This would eliminate the internal drive as a problem, and would also eliminate kernel panics because of the OS 10.2.8 update as the machine displayed the same issue when booting from an external drive with a fresh install of jaguar. Should I just chalk this up to wear and tear finally taking its toll? It doesn't always lock up when I move it, and sometimes it just locks when I am doing random things like writing an email, or unplugging the power cord. argh...i wanted to wait for a G5 powerbook, but it looks like I may have a trip to the apple store in my immediate futureanyone have any other ideas or similar experiences? TIA Brendan On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 02:58 PM, Joe Ellis wrote: - Original Message - From: Brendan McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 1:57 PM Subject: Re: is my powerbook dead? Did that alreadystill no dice. The machine locks up at random times, like when I plug in the power cord (sometimes) or when I move the machine. I think its just on its way out. Any other ideas? You may have a hard drive that's going bad, have you tried booting it off a firewire drive, plugging it in, and moving it and getting lockups implies that something may be loose and floating around inside the case causing flakey operation, have you dropped it recently? Joe Ellis -- 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 --- -- 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 --- -- 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
Re: is my powerbook dead?
Haven't dropped it recently, but it does take its share of abuse in my shoulder bag when I ride the subway, carry it to school / work for the last 3 years. I tried connecting and booting up from an external firewire drive and I get the same results. This would eliminate the internal drive as a problem, and would also eliminate kernel panics because of the OS 10.2.8 update as the machine displayed the same issue when booting from an external drive with a fresh install of jaguar. Should I just chalk this up to wear and tear finally taking its toll? It doesn't always lock up when I move it, and sometimes it just locks when I am doing random things like writing an email, or unplugging the power cord. argh...i wanted to wait for a G5 powerbook, but it looks like I may have a trip to the apple store in my immediate futureanyone have any other ideas or similar experiences? TIA Brendan On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 02:58 PM, Joe Ellis wrote: - Original Message - From: Brendan McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 1:57 PM Subject: Re: is my powerbook dead? Did that alreadystill no dice. The machine locks up at random times, like when I plug in the power cord (sometimes) or when I move the machine. I think its just on its way out. Any other ideas? You may have a hard drive that's going bad, have you tried booting it off a firewire drive, plugging it in, and moving it and getting lockups implies that something may be loose and floating around inside the case causing flakey operation, have you dropped it recently? Joe Ellis -- 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 --- -- 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: is my powerbook dead?
Did that alreadystill no dice. The machine locks up at random times, like when I plug in the power cord (sometimes) or when I move the machine. I think its just on its way out. Any other ideas? On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 10:04 PM, P.F.Grenier wrote: On Wednesday, Oct 1, 2003, at 20:38 US/Eastern, Brendan McAlpine wrote: which one is the daughtercard? The Ti doesn't have a processor daughtercard. Try reseating the memory. -- 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 --- -- 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: is my powerbook dead?
- Original Message - From: Brendan McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 1:57 PM Subject: Re: is my powerbook dead? Did that alreadystill no dice. The machine locks up at random times, like when I plug in the power cord (sometimes) or when I move the machine. I think its just on its way out. Any other ideas? You may have a hard drive that's going bad, have you tried booting it off a firewire drive, plugging it in, and moving it and getting lockups implies that something may be loose and floating around inside the case causing flakey operation, have you dropped it recently? Joe Ellis -- 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 ---
is my powerbook dead?
Hey everyone, My powerbook started doing the weirdest things tonight. While using MS office to finish typing up a paper, my Tibook froze. Not just an application crash, not a kernel crash, just a complete lockup (first time in 3 years). When I rebooted my machine, it sounded like it powered up, but the screen just stayed dark and the hard drive didn't spin up. At first I thought maybe my RAM went bad, so I took out one module and left one in, and tried to reboot. Same result. Switched the RAM and tried again...same result. on a hunch, I booted up while holding option down, and suddenly i was given the choice of my os x partition and my os 9 partition to startup. I started up on the os x drive, and the machine booted normally and functioned fine. When I shut it down and tried to power up again, I was brought back to the dark screen. I rebooted while holding down option again, and again got the startup disk choice. I chose the os x startup volume again and the machine started to boot up again, and then when it got to the grey screen with the apple logo, it crashed and said system crash: cpu. The last thing I tried was resetting the power manager. Lo and behold, after doing that, my machine will boot up without having to hold down the option key and runs fine. However, when you turn the machine off, you have to reset the power manager again to get it going. Is it time for a new albook? I have the first series Tibook and have dealt with the whole range of problems (bad airport reception, heat, etc.). I updated to 10.2.8 and I know that it had some problems. Earlier this week I noticed my screen flickering, and then this problem started up. Is my powerbook on the way out or has anyone else run into this and has a suggestion? Thanks Brendan -- 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: is my powerbook dead?
Brendan McAlpine wrote: Is it time for a new albook? I have the first series Tibook and have dealt with the whole range of problems (bad airport reception, heat, etc.). I updated to 10.2.8 and I know that it had some problems. Earlier this week I noticed my screen flickering, and then this problem started up. Try popping the keyboard and making sure the CPU daughtercard is firmly seated...that would be my first inclination. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- 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: is my powerbook dead?
which one is the daughtercard? On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 07:51 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Brendan McAlpine wrote: Is it time for a new albook? I have the first series Tibook and have dealt with the whole range of problems (bad airport reception, heat, etc.). I updated to 10.2.8 and I know that it had some problems. Earlier this week I noticed my screen flickering, and then this problem started up. Try popping the keyboard and making sure the CPU daughtercard is firmly seated...that would be my first inclination. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- 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 --- -- 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: is my powerbook dead?
On Wednesday, Oct 1, 2003, at 20:38 US/Eastern, Brendan McAlpine wrote: which one is the daughtercard? The Ti doesn't have a processor daughtercard. Try reseating the memory. -- 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 ---
