[X4U] logicboard problem

[Jeff Carruthers]

On Jan 13, 2005, at 2:01 PM, chronos326 at earthlink.net wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have a powermac g4 quicksilver 2002 model w/ 1 gig of ram and a 1.2 
> gig processor w/ a superdrive and an internal 250 zipdrive. Yesterday 
> my airport internet was unable to connect. So I ran some basic trouble 
> shooting steps to no avail. Things I have done, fsck repair 
> permissions, ran disk warrior and TTP4 and defragmented my hard drive. 
> After all that upon restarting the final time the finder kept crashing 
> and the clock said it had been reset to 1969. So I ran the apple 
> hardware test cd and it said the logic board failed. Also it gave me 
> the error message of scc_3/7/. Im not sure what that means but I think 
> its pointing to the battery that stores the settings for the clock and 
> other things. Most of my preferences were reset to the defaults as 
> well. I have comp usa and frys here as well to buy parts.
> Thanx,
> spoonbender...
I'd replace the internal battery (which holds the PRAM settings) first 
and then reset the little red button (CUDA?) on the main logic board 
and see whether that clears up the problems. After that, I'd reseat the 
RAM.

Next thing to try would be reinstalling the OS (archive and install) 
and see if that makes a diff.

Anyway, that's what I'd try. Others will undoubtedly have other 
suggestions.

Jeff

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