Re: Subject: 3400 repairs

2002-03-21 Thread Sionnach Aisling
Wow! Thanks for all the info Lorne. I'm really glad I've got the 3400 working now, but I will definately tuck all that information away... never know when it might come in handy. Cheers, Sionnach __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the

Re: Subject: 3400 repairs

2002-03-20 Thread Chris Boring
>From: Spry/Fujita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: 3400 repairs > >First Sionnach, I wouldn't panic. My own (maybe ignorant) theory is that >the 3400's ROM is written in such a way that it is very allergic or >intolerant of certain problems that creep

Subject: 3400 repairs

2002-03-20 Thread Spry/Fujita
>Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 05:53:50 -0800 (PST) >From: Sionnach Aisling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: 3400 repairs First Sionnach, I wouldn't panic. My own (maybe ignorant) theory is that the 3400's ROM is written in such a way that it is very allergic or intolerant of ce

Subject: 3400 repairs

2002-03-20 Thread Spry/Fujita
>Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 05:53:50 -0800 (PST) >From: Sionnach Aisling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: 3400 repairs First Sionnach, I wouldn't panic. My own (maybe ignorant) theory is that the 3400's ROM is written in such a way that it is very allergic or intolerant of ce

Re: 3400 repairs

2002-03-20 Thread Sionnach Aisling
My CD does indeed have a full restore option as well as a patch option as Tom pointed out earlier. It was also definately a bad hard drive... I hadn't taken it out until now. I knew the drive was bad as soon as I removed it from the case. In all my years of working with laptop hard drives (or

Re: 3400 repairs

2002-03-20 Thread Sionnach Aisling
--- Christopher Morgenstierne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excuse me, but I thought the 8.6 disk was not a full > system but - like 8.1 > - only an update of 8.5? > Anyway, if I were you I would run Norton or Techtool > on the 3400 c, either > from CD or from in disk mode via SCSI form a desktop

Re: 3400 repairs

2002-03-20 Thread Tom Roth
2002 5:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 3400 repairs > > > Excuse me, but I thought the 8.6 disk was not a full system but - like 8.1 > - only an update of 8.5? > Anyway, if I were you I would run Norton or Techtool on the 3400 c, either > from CD or from in disk m

3400 repairs

2002-03-19 Thread Christopher Morgenstierne
>Last night I put the RAM in, rebooted from the 8.6 CD >and verified that it saw the RAM. (By the way, when >booting off the CD, it would say that the disk was >unreadable and it wanted to Initialize it.) Next I >decided to try and reinsatll the OS. I tried running >the install from the des

Re: 3400 repairs

2002-03-19 Thread Tom Roth
> -- > From: Sionnach Aisling > Reply To: PowerBooks > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 3400 repairs > > At this point, unless you guys can think of something > I missed, I'm going to as