My Ti500 has had 3 MBs replaced. The first two times it would refuse to shut down after one of the USB ports quit. After pulling the power it would not start up. One was for a dead F/W port after a MB replacement. It has now quit again and hopefully Apple will just replace the whole thing. Good thing our 5 year old plus beige G3 is still going strong. > > I was having major trouble with my Ti-book 500 just "freezing" for no > apparent reason, it didn't matter what software was running or if it > was just in the finder. I thought the Hard drive was the problem, but > Apple said it was the Mother board.