[P1] iBook Problems

[Richard McKay]

Eric,

I had some trouble similar to what you mention when I used Norton Utilities
or Anti-virus before all the current updates...are you using this app? Is it
running at night and allowed to make corrections to problems automatically?
If so this could be the culprit and the updates may help along with caution
giving power to such tools to repair automatically...

If that is not it...I feel for you...get that puppy checked out!

HTH,

Richard
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Am 10/12/02 0:05 schrieb "Eric Schwarz" unter <schwarztech at jmug.org>:

> Well, I have two problems that are really annoying me.  First, the
> little light around where the AC adapter plugs into my iBook (600MHz)
> fails to light up amber when charging.  It works fine (as in it charges
> the battery), and has been like this for a few months (Apple's support
> blew me off about it), and I've had no troubles, but is this something I
> should lose sleep over?
> 
> Secondly, I am losing sleep over this - recently (since around
> mid-September), every few weeks, my iBook's boot partition (whether it
> be the whole drive or 1 partition, depending on how I set it up) gets
> corrupted so bad (catalog/b-tree/etc) that I have to format that
> partition and start over.  It only seems to happen in Jaguar (10.2.0,
> 10.2.1, and 10.2.2), but I haven't been using 10.1 in awhile to know.  I
> did a low-level/zero all data/clear out everything format with the OS 9
> Disk Utility and it came up with no troubles during that, and I ran
> various other disk utilities to check for bad blocks, but nothing.  Is
> there anything associated with Jaguar or any apps that will cause this
> kind of disk corruption, and/or is there anything I could get Apple to
> do about it?  The worst this happened was that on Saturday I reloaded
> Jaguar from the install CDs (it finished around 2am and I loaded my
> various apps back on) - the next night (Sunday) around 10pm I got the
> flashing question mark again.  Last night, I did a low-level/zero all
> data format (to check and see if something developed), and loaded 10.1.5
> this morning.  No troubles yet.