[Ti] free broken, parted out powerbook (Was: Re: Dead TI

Arne Hulstein arne.hulstein at gmail.com
Fri Oct 1 05:10:57 PDT 2010


Hey Jake,

Well, I have got one of those here. More or less the same story, just
not the Porsche unfortunately. We have an Alfa. Was hoping yours had a
little more left on it. ;-)

Arne

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Jacob Ritorto <Jacob.Ritorto at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since there are a few folks wanting my old tibook, I thought I'd first warn
> you that it's pretty bad -- I mean, darn near completely utterly ruined.  No
> cd player, bad KB, screen liberated to fix other tibook, older proc (867? or
> worse?), wifi card taken out, little or no memory. I had plugged memory in
> and had it hooked up to an external KB & monitor to look up part numbers and
> engine diagrams in the garage while working on the old Porsche :)
>
> That said, if you really still want it, send me a ups account number and
> I'll get it moving your way.  First come first served.
>
> --jake
>
> On 09/30/10 16:16, Arne Hulstein wrote:
>>
>> Hey Jacob,
>>
>> Before you send your old one to the garbage, can you send it here?
>> Need some parts to revive mine. ;-)
>>
>>
>> Arne
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Jacob Ritorto<Jacob.Ritorto at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a similar but older g4 tibook that inexplicably tanked and gives
>>> no
>>> response to power whatsoever.  No apparent cause.  Didn't figure out why
>>> so
>>> it's prolly heading for the garbage pile.
>>>
>>> Do you get any signs of life at all?  Chime, screen flash, sleep light,
>>> anything?  If so you could try a pram reset.  This nukes and defaults all
>>> special settings at the openboot level, before the OS is loaded or
>>> anything
>>> like that.  If I recall corretly you have to hold down option-apple-p-r
>>> right after hitting the power button, but you might want to verify that
>>> sequence via google or something.  Legend has it that to even more
>>> completely clear everything from pram you're supposed to hold those keys
>>> down until the chime rings three times, then all settings are wantonly
>>> smashed back to factory defaults.  Sounds like a fairy tail to me, but
>>> you
>>> know Jobs..
>>>
>>> hth
>>>
>>> On 09/30/10 14:04, H F wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I  have a TI 1gig/1gig that until recently worked perfectly, but now
>>>> will
>>>> not start. The power supply is working (switched with my laptop) it has
>>>> a
>>>> new battery that has been in it for at least 6 months and all the lights
>>>> on
>>>> it show it is fully charged. I've held the power button down for 10
>>>> seconds,
>>>> nothing. Took it to a User Group meeting and they pried the keyboard off
>>>> to
>>>> find the reset button...that didn't work.
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything else I can try?
>>>>
>>>
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