From: Tom Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Ongoing Problems with Lombard Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 14:35:12 +0100
Last night my daughter's Lombard appeared to give up the ghost. It just stopped dead - no sign of life at all - and would not restart - no chimes. Plus, when I lifted off the keyboard there was a smell of electrical burning.
Today it'll power up, but it won't boot - I just get the flashing folder / question mark icon. I have done the following things:- a) reset the pram; b) reset the nvram, having booted into open firmware; c) reset the PMU. I've also tried using Disk Utility via an installation disk, but the only disk that Disk Utility shows is the installation CD; it can't see the installed HD either.
I suspect that the Lombard is dead, but I was just wondering if anyone could diagnose what the fault might be. Last night I was convinced it must be a power issue, today the power side of things appears to be OK and the issue seems to be with the HDD.
System is a 333Mhz Lombard, 256 Mb Ram, OS X 10.2.8, and a Toshiba 20 Gb HD.
Tom Burke
Just had a similar thing happen to me. The burning smell apparently was the chip that controls the hard drive, on the bottom of the motherboard. I took the mobo out and could see that it's melted. It will recognize a CD or Superdisk, so it's not the entire IDE controller, just the hard drive.
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