[Ti] Dead TI
Ardeshir Mehta
ardeshir at mac.com
Thu Sep 30 13:43:30 PDT 2010
Always sell your older computer for parts - never throw it into the
landfill!
+++++
On 30-Sep-10, at 4:16 PM, 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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