Re: is my powerbook dead?

[Brendan McAlpine]

Haven't dropped it recently, but it does take its share of abuse in my 
shoulder bag when I ride the subway, carry it to school / work for the 
last 3 years.....

I tried connecting and booting up from an external firewire drive and I 
get the same results.  This would eliminate the internal drive as a 
problem, and would also eliminate kernel panics because of the OS 
10.2.8 update as the machine displayed the same issue when booting from 
an external drive with a fresh install of jaguar.....

Should I just chalk this up to wear and tear finally taking its toll?  
It doesn't always lock up when I move it, and sometimes it just locks 
when I am doing random things like writing an email, or unplugging the 
power cord.

argh...i wanted to wait for a G5 powerbook, but it looks like I may 
have a trip to the apple store in my immediate future....anyone have 
any other ideas or similar experiences?

TIA

Brendan
On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 02:58 PM, Joe Ellis wrote:
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From: "Brendan McAlpine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: is my powerbook dead?

Did that already....still no dice.

The machine locks up at random times, like when I plug in the power
cord (sometimes) or when I move the machine.....
I think its just on its way out.

Any other ideas?

You may have a hard drive that's going bad, have you tried booting it 
off a
firewire drive, plugging it in, and moving it and getting lockups 
implies
that something may be loose and floating around inside the case causing
flakey operation, have you dropped it recently?

Joe Ellis

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