[Ti] Start-Up problems with TiBook -

[Kim Gammelgaard]

I am having the same kinds of trouble with both my iMac(17") and my
AlBook(15") for some time(My iMac locked up twice within the past 24 hours
and my PB once, but failed to boot at all for a while. Only the 5th restart
made it work...). 

The problem is also that there are no logs being written when the lock-ups
appear, so there is no clue how to figure out what goes wrong. There is a
lengthy thread at arstechnica at the moment:

<http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=8300945231&m=1
90005950121>

I am afraid that the problem is so low-level, that it won't be addressed
before 10.4. I'd wish it would though.

I still love my Macs, though ;-)

Kim

On 29/04/04 14:16, "Michael Cucka" <brucknerdoc at snet.net> wrote:

> Hello -
> 
> I've been having an irresolvable problem with my TiBook - early 400 MHz
> model - that started after upgrading to 10.3.3.
> 
> It first began as random lock-ups that only a restart would escape from.
> These became more frequent, and I then began having crashes after waking the
> PB from sleep. But now I can rarely get the PB to boot off the HD.
> 
> Either, after the restart chime, it remains at a black screen (although it
> does seem that the HD makes noise as if it is booting) or it locks-up at the
> "grey Apple" screen, although the "wheel of fortune" never appears. I
> frequently have to go thru several restart attempts to get up and running -
> and sometimes nothing works. Occasionally when this happens, if I boot
> holding the "opt" key and select the OS, it will continue to boot normally.
> When it won't boot, it won't even boot in "safe mode".