on 1/26/05 6:30 PM, Scott Birdwell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Just a note after being out of the loop for a while here. Many of you
> generously offered advice and support with my CRT iMac 400 DV recently.
> The symptoms are: 1) after a half hour of inactivity, I get the "You
> need to restart your computer. . ." warning message, and 2) I can get
> nothing out of the firewire ports. These are likely unrelated, as the
> firewire ports have been on the blink ever since I changed out my DOA
> hard drive and loaded OS X two years ago. The crashing problem only
> began a few weeks ago. One of you fixed me up with a take-apart manual
> for this and it greatly simplified my surgery. My guess (hope?) was
> that the hard drive was beginning to fail, even though it is, as I
> stated earlier, only two years old. Well, the long and the short of it
> is that changing the Samsung 40 gig HD with a new 80 gig Seagate HD did
> nothing to fix the crashing problem. Same ol' same ol'. I guess I
> shouldn't be surprised, because while loading up the new HD with an OS,
> I slapped the old HD in a firewire enclosure and it ran fine, no
> crashing at all, even after hours of being left on. Any ideas what
> could cause the problems I'm experiencing here, folks? FWIW while I
> had the thing apart, I tried re-seating the FW ports onto the mobo.
> They weren't particularly loose, though. No change here, either. I
> fear that my old faithful iMac is nearing it's useful end. Too bad,
> the picture is still great. I figured it would be the first to go. . .
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Scott Birdwell
>
Scott,
I have a stock (except for 40 gig HD) Indigo 400dv I'd sell for
$250?
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