[Ti] Flaky powerbook

[Gary Wall]

Have you tried calling Apple?
Does it still have warrenty?
Gary
On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 12:50  PM, nick weldin wrote:

> I've just been trying to sort a some friends powerbook. They mentioned 
> in passing that they didn't really use it as it kept turining itself 
> off (in the middle of doing stuff) as well as crashing alot.
>
> Its a 15inch dvi with superdrive
>
> I managed to get it to boot up a couple of times (in 9.2) then into 10.
> Booted diskwarrior disk, it reported problem with the disc wrapper and 
> fixed it - half way through the rest of its work froze, restarted and 
> tried again, froze again. Managed to get it to restart from disk, but 
> question mark folder for a sec or two, so ran System Profiler to see 
> what showed up - first screen showed something along the lines of -  
> startup disc identifed but not able to say which ATA buss it is on, and 
> machine crashed.
>
> Put in the hardware test CD and it bugged out - came up with open 
> firmware dialogue box, but couldn't type anything in.
>
> Now the computer comes on, no chime and no screen light but the fan 
> starts.
> Have tried the pmu reset , but no joy. Hardware test CD is still in the 
> drive and won't come out!
>
> Any advice or is it time to take it to an Apple store.
>
> Cheers
>
> Nick W
>
>
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