[Ti] free broken, parted out powerbook (Was: Re: Dead TI

[Jacob Ritorto]

Yeah, this tibook's a good candidate for a Will It Blend episode, if you 
ask me.

ooo, Alfa.  You're considerably higher up in the sports car food chain 
than me.  911s are simple as dirt and they made a billion of them so I 
can actually get new curvy bits in the mail and understand like monkey. 
  New brakes all the way around last night!

On 10/01/10 08:10, Arne Hulstein wrote:
> Hey Jake,
>
> Well, I have got one of those here. More or less the same story, just
> not the Porsche unfortunately. We have an Alfa. Was hoping yours had a
> little more left on it. ;-)
>
> Arne
>
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Jacob Ritorto<Jacob.Ritorto at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Since there are a few folks wanting my old tibook, I thought I'd first warn
>> you that it's pretty bad -- I mean, darn near completely utterly ruined.  No
>> cd player, bad KB, screen liberated to fix other tibook, older proc (867? or
>> worse?), wifi card taken out, little or no memory. I had plugged memory in
>> and had it hooked up to an external KB&  monitor to look up part numbers and
>> engine diagrams in the garage while working on the old Porsche :)
>>
>> That said, if you really still want it, send me a ups account number and
>> I'll get it moving your way.  First come first served.
>>
>> --jake
>>
>> On 09/30/10 16:16, Arne Hulstein wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey Jacob,
>>>
>>> Before you send your old one to the garbage, can you send it here?
>>> Need some parts to revive mine. ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>> Arne
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Jacob Ritorto<Jacob.Ritorto at gmail.com>
>>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have a similar but older g4 tibook that inexplicably tanked and gives
>>>> no
>>>> response to power whatsoever.  No apparent cause.  Didn't figure out why
>>>> so
>>>> it's prolly heading for the garbage pile.
>>>>
>>>> Do you get any signs of life at all?  Chime, screen flash, sleep light,
>>>> anything?  If so you could try a pram reset.  This nukes and defaults all
>>>> special settings at the openboot level, before the OS is loaded or
>>>> anything
>>>> like that.  If I recall corretly you have to hold down option-apple-p-r
>>>> right after hitting the power button, but you might want to verify that
>>>> sequence via google or something.  Legend has it that to even more
>>>> completely clear everything from pram you're supposed to hold those keys
>>>> down until the chime rings three times, then all settings are wantonly
>>>> smashed back to factory defaults.  Sounds like a fairy tail to me, but
>>>> you
>>>> know Jobs..
>>>>
>>>> hth
>>>>
>>>> On 09/30/10 14:04, H F wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I  have a TI 1gig/1gig that until recently worked perfectly, but now
>>>>> will
>>>>> not start. The power supply is working (switched with my laptop) it has
>>>>> a
>>>>> new battery that has been in it for at least 6 months and all the lights
>>>>> on
>>>>> it show it is fully charged. I've held the power button down for 10
>>>>> seconds,
>>>>> nothing. Took it to a User Group meeting and they pried the keyboard off
>>>>> to
>>>>> find the reset button...that didn't work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there anything else I can try?
>>>>>
>>>>
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