My PB2400 of 2 years died a few months ago when it would not boot up. The symptoms were similar to what others have reported, the green sleep light comes on and stays on for several hours even when all power is removed. Attempts to boot up produce either the greeting chord only, a click or - in the last death throes - nothing at all. Well OK I wanted to upgrade to a G3 anyway and I sent off to MCE and voila new machine. Or so I thought...... After about 6 weks of use I got the green light of death again. Started off with some sort of "address error" warning message. When I attempted to reboot it seemed OK at first but never progressed beyond a certain point in the reboot - just froze. After numerous tries to reboot it got worse until in the end just the sleep light stayed on. It maintained a ghostly green vigil throught the night, but then it too flickered its last and fell into a silent slumber from which no man or machine ever returns. Or so I thought ..... 2 days later I could no longer stand the mocking visage of my dead PB2400 and I plugged the thing in. Hello, it perks right up, loads the OS and now it is running fine. Any ideas about what is going on here? Two motherboards, same symptoms. I am afraid the G3 upgrade, while nice in itself, did not solve whatever problem caused the machine to die in the first place. Other known problems: a very scratchy. noisy HD that I think also must be replaced. Could the problems booting be related to a HD failure of some sort? I'd kind of like to have some idea before I go invest in a new HD. thanks, Marc ---------- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> Be sure to visit Mac2400! <http://www.sineware.com/mac2400> X-Router | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers! Dr. Bott | <http://www.drbott.com/prod/MIH120.html> PowerBook Guy is | Click here! Everything PowerBook! | http://www.powerbookguy.com Midwest Mac Parts ][ <http://www.midwestmac.com> After-market parts for Macs. ][ 888-356-1104 ][ MacResQ Reader Specials: 2.5GB Seagate SCSI: $119, 4GB IBM SCSI: $199, Norton Util. 4.0: $29, Mac Parts, Systems & Repairs <http://www.macresq.com>
