[G4] 733mhz G4 Loudish Fan

[John Wilson]

Hi Charles. I also had some problems getting Apple to replace the 
Philips combo drive when I had a MDD 867, which was still under 
warranty. They wanted me to take it to a Compusa service center where 
the techs said they would need about 4 weeks to get to my computer. No 
way. I finally convinced Apple I could replace it myself but they would 
only send a replacement and a prepaid box for the old, broken drive 
after I gave 'em my Visa number. But they did send the drive and box 
and it cost me nothing. The test for proving the drive didn't work was 
that it wouldn't boot with the Apple Hardware Test disk. BE PERSISTENT! 
John


> That MDD G4 has had three annoyances, all of which needed or still 
> need my hands-on get inside the box attention. One was the 
> aforementioned power supply replacement. Next week I'll install a 
> second HD, not for the extra capacity per se but for backups, some 
> insurance against failure of the original HD which has been behaving 
> suspiciously. Lastly the CD-combo drive needs a firmware update to fix 
> a DAO burning bug. Unfortunately the only way available to me to 
> handle that would be to remove the drive, install it in a PC, run 
> Phillip's PC update program, and finally reinstall the drive in the 
> MDD Mac. I've tried but failed to get any help from Apple for this 
> problem.
>
>
> -ct