My powerbook started doing the weirdest things tonight. While using MS office to finish typing up a paper, my Tibook froze. Not just an application crash, not a kernel crash, just a complete lockup (first time in 3 years). When I rebooted my machine, it sounded like it powered up, but the screen just stayed dark and the hard drive didn't spin up. At first I thought maybe my RAM went bad, so I took out one module and left one in, and tried to reboot. Same result. Switched the RAM and tried again...same result.
on a hunch, I booted up while holding option down, and suddenly i was given the choice of my os x partition and my os 9 partition to startup. I started up on the os x drive, and the machine booted normally and functioned fine. When I shut it down and tried to power up again, I was brought back to the dark screen. I rebooted while holding down option again, and again got the startup disk choice. I chose the os x startup volume again and the machine started to boot up again, and then when it got to the grey screen with the apple logo, it crashed and said "system crash: cpu".
The last thing I tried was resetting the power manager. Lo and behold, after doing that, my machine will boot up without having to hold down the option key and runs fine. However, when you turn the machine off, you have to reset the power manager again to get it going.
Is it time for a new albook? I have the first series Tibook and have dealt with the whole range of problems (bad airport reception, heat, etc.). I updated to 10.2.8 and I know that it had some problems. Earlier this week I noticed my screen flickering, and then this problem started up.
Is my powerbook on the way out or has anyone else run into this and has a suggestion?
Thanks
Brendan
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