Hi Folks
Thanks for the suggestions Laurent. I agree that if there were loose connections, symptons would be likely to be more random. No (related?) problems seem to occur while working over a four hour period (dialin time limit) only on restart or waking from sleep. My next test (later tonight after work is done) will be powering the Pismo down and then starting it up (via the Power button).
A further quick(er) follow up on symptons:
I just had to reboot since my modem wasn't disconnecting properly (dialin from home is patience forming inducing compared to Ethernet at work) so: 1. selected restart from drop-down Menu 2. watched the cycling animation before power down occured 3. screen blanks off 4. No chime sound or screen blanking on; but hard drive sounds indicates life. Keyboard has power ... caps/num lock lights work. 5. After waiting some time ... few minutes ... in case the Pismo might be rebooting (with screen dark) ... only hard drive sounds emanated ... no screen/or sound from volume controls ... 6. pressed "ctrl-command-power" with no discernable result 7. pressed "ctrl-command-power" and got a beep-beep-beep sound and flashing sleep light: one long flash, 3 short flashes and then a delay and then over again ... weird! (Morse code?) 8. pressed "ctrl-command-power" again, and (finally) get a startup chime and even a powering up screen (Yay!).
Are these (weird) symptons still related to a power issue? Main battery? PRAM battery? PMU? Or?
When I do send my machine in for service (sob) I hope to have some decent symptons to guide them ... so I can get it back quickly ... (hopefully I can get a loan machine from somewhere!) ... my Performa 5200 is so slow ...
Thanks for any further suggestions,
Regards Harry.
On 01/06/2004, at 2:21 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
on 31/05/04 23:12, Hoju Dingo at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip!]Anyways, I feel this sort of behaviour may have been discussed before
and I am
wondering if there are some reasonable solutions. Luckily I had
purchased an extension
to my AppleCare so I can send it in for service (but I can't do without
it right now!)
and see if the Apple Techs can both find and solve the problem.
Is the age of the main/backup batteries an issue? Or is it likely to be some power board issue? Or a loose RAM board? ... though the fact that it reboots and runs OK after 10 hours means the latter is unlikely. Does 10.3.x have any sleep/boot issues?
Could be the PRAM battery getting dead because the main battery is almost
dead. Could also be the PMU (power board). Maybe a loose connection with a
RAM chip or the processor daughterboard. Although, in the last 2 possible
causes, this would be more random than what you describe.
-Laurent.
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