17 Powerbook failure

2004-11-21 Thread Rowan, Michael
Hey guys, I have a 17 Powerbook which isn't working. I only converted over to macs last year, so am short on experience diagnosing the problems. When I try to power up it sounds like the drive starts to spin up and doesn't. The sound is coming from the top left corner -- by the power cord,

Re: 17 Powerbook failure

2004-11-21 Thread Steve Fuller
The hard drive on a 17 powerbook is in the lower LH corner. Not the upper LH side. Steve -- 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! |

Re: powerbook failure

2001-07-10 Thread Tom Seid
Can you boot off a floppy? Or cd rom? Worst case scenario...if you don't want to repair the 190...you can put the drive in an external case...from MCE or other vendor...you can get a pc card adapter, or firewire and access it on your Pismo... on 7/10/01 1:30 AM, Jim Freeman at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: powerbook failure

2001-07-10 Thread Remy Davison
Been there, done that :-( Well- a toner cart died, but I know what you mean. Sounds like she crashed and then the power manager got trashed. Not a problem. Head over to http://www.accesscom.com/~gamba/ and get yourself a boot disk for the 190, if you haven't got one. Note that the 190 requires

powerbook failure

2001-07-10 Thread Donna Hood Pointer
(G-Books) 7/10/01 11:55 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] My girlfriend is going through every graduate student's nightmare. She is = on the verge of finishing her dissertation and her powerbook died. She hasn't backed up for a month, so if we can't recover the data she will have lost = a month's

Re: Powerbook failure

2001-07-10 Thread Kris McGrath
I wonder if Apple has a larger market share in Canada or in Quebec? I think you will find that Quebec is still part of Canada, no thanks to Lucien :-) Actually, Mac still has a relatively large portion of the Educational market in Canada. Many of our schools are tweaking to the idea that it