[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!


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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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