on 25/10/03 20:46, Ely Zimmerman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Help appreciated. My Lombard is playing dead. > > Bought a G3 Lombard Bronze PowerBook about a month ago, just added 2 256MB > chips (via help from a good take apart manual from powerbookmedic.com ($10 > download)). I then upgrade its OS from 9.0 to 9.2.2 in the proper > progressive steps, then installed OS 10.2 and upgraded it to 10.2.8, loaded > MS Office '98 and life seemed swell. > > However, sometime shortly after I had installed OS 10.2 and it was running, > I rebooted and the machine played dead. Wouldn't reboot, powerlight was out, > pushing the battery got a momentary green light on the battery but no > reboot. > > I removed the battery, unplugged it, put battery back in and then it worked. > I figured (i.e. hoped) this was just an anomaly. > > I was then able to proceed with the various upgrades mentioned above over > the next few days. During that time I was using the machine in both OSX and > classic. > > Last night, after upgrading Front Page I went to reboot and the machine was > totally dead. I tried the above disconnect tricks and once or twice I got a > screen flicker of verical lines then nothing. > > It is as if there is no power to the unit at all. > > Any ideas or suggestions as to what is going on and what Ican do about it? > > Many thanks, in advance. > Ely > > P.S. I did have a failed attempt at installing OS 10.2 over 9.0 then trashed > them both and started from scratch. I may have upgraded the firmware before > installing the new memory but when I trashed OS 9 and 10.2 would I have > trashed the firmware upgrade as well? Could tha bethe problem? > >
No, trashing the systems shouldn't have any impact on the firmware. The firmware is a special memory that keeps some settings even when the computer doesn't have any power. How old is the battery? Have you tried to pull the battery then do a power manager reset? -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooks's Law prov.: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" -- a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting development work among N programmers is O(N) (that is, proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N). The quote is from Fred Brooks, a manager of IBM's OS/360 project and author of "The Mythical Man-Month" (Addison-Wesley, 1975, ISBN 0-201-00650-2), an excellent early book on software engineering. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
