Re: Random freezes on PB 5300c

2002-12-02 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel
Hi all, contrary to what I have stated several days ago, the problems with my PB 5300c have remained. The symptoms are: - random freezes during startup or later - when pushing the start button (with and without the power cord plugged in), a klicking sound can be heard, but nothing happens. Some

Re: Random freezes on PB 5300c

2002-11-17 Thread Brian
>Do you think it was just the seating or could the card have gone bad? >(I have checked it with TechTool 2 and no problems showed up) TechTools is cute and perhaps has some application but I've never had it catch or demonstrate anything useful on CPUs with hardware faults. Well OK the CPU would

Re: Random freezes on PB 5300c

2002-11-17 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel
At 15:32 Uhr -0500 17.11.2002, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > my recently acquired PB 5300c shows the annoying behaviour of >> frequently and randomly freezing, even with all extensions off. When >> shutdown, the computer does only reluctantly start with the help of a >> forced restart. When put to s

Re: Random freezes on PB 5300c

2002-11-17 Thread Andrew Kershaw
> My problems might have to do with the exchange > of the original trackpad against one of a PB 190. > This was suggested to me by one of the list > members to gain the functionality of the button > trackpad, and it has worked alright - except of > the crashes, of course. > Has anyone who did this

Re: Random freezes on PB 5300c

2002-11-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 09:01 AM, Nils Mueller-Scheessel wrote: > Hi all, > > my recently acquired PB 5300c shows the annoying behaviour of > frequently and randomly freezing, even with all extensions off. When > shutdown, the computer does only reluctantly start with the help of a > f

Random freezes on PB 5300c

2002-11-17 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel
Hi all, my recently acquired PB 5300c shows the annoying behaviour of frequently and randomly freezing, even with all extensions off. When shutdown, the computer does only reluctantly start with the help of a forced restart. When put to sleep by shutting the display, it crashes, too. My proble