My pismo quit a few months back with sleep crashes starting the symptoms getting worse having to use reset button and then finally nothing.
I am still not sure what the cause was -- I have replaced both power cards and the backup battery and worked through the troubleshooting list I found online. It boils down for me to I think either logic board or cpu... not sure what to do with it try again or give up. I seem to recall something about some crashes may be cause by problems with display cable or possible inverter that powers the panel for digital. Since your screen looks funny you might open it up and inspect all the cables for starters, maybe consider replacing the inverter. But don't forget that the video is mostly on the logic board so that could have a developing problem, sometimes chips do go bad. My screen did not show your symptoms. On Oct 28, 12:00 pm, Ashgrove <[email protected]> wrote: > ANYBODY???? > > On Oct 26, 9:42 pm, Ashgrove <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My beloved Pismo has come to be my nightstand machine. It has been > > there for a couple of years now --although sometimes it goes places > > with me and does real work. I basically read the news, play games, and > > watch movies on it. It usually stays open on a stand, but sometimes I > > close the lid to give the hinges a break. > > > Last week I closed it twice. The first time, it gave me a kernel panic > > when it opened, and I had to restart it. The second, it just turned > > off by itself, and had also to be restarted. Both times, the screen > > looked weird when first turned on --like a fine net of dots--, before > > going back to normal. I have not closed it again, and it seems to be > > doing fine for now. > > > Has this happened to anybody before? What could be the cause? > > > TIA, > > > Felix > > > P.S. This is a 500Mhz model with a gig of RAM and a 100GB HDD. It runs > > mostly 10.4.11, but I occasionally boot on 9.2.2 to play some games > > and enjoy Classilla. The screen has been showing the usual pink > > discolorations for a while now, which are getting very slowly worse. > > But I never had a kernel panic before on this machine. Ever. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
