Glad to hear that things are working again.
Jerry
On Apr 08, 2004, at 8:51 AM, Marta Edie PB wrote:
> Well, folks, before calling Apple, i did one more thing, you always
> suggest: I repaired permissions, and low and behold, my USB works
> again. It did a lot of repairing, but since I can't read logs, I don't
> know what it repaired. I still can't see how a bad socket could have
> been a software problem. I had my little jiggly thing from my cordless
> mouse plugged in. But I tried everything else and it did not work with
> this one socket, and everything worked on the other. Any ideas why? -
> It is good to know, though, that Apple Care is quick in responding,
> for I don't quite trust that this thing is fixed forever.
> Marta.
> On Apr 7, 2004, at 23:05, andrew arnold wrote:
>
>> My partner had the same good experience with a bad USB port, just the
>> same
>> as you, Marta. He called, the box arrived on a Tue, he sent it right
>> back
>> while the UPS person waited, and it was back at the office on
>> Thursday,
>> fixed.
>>
>>> On Apr 7, 2004, at 11:37 AM, Marta Edie typed:
>>>
>>>> Thanks, Brian, I have a hub on my iMac, because I have so many
>>>> jugglers hanging on, but here i am speaking about the two built-in
>>>> sockets of the powerbook, one of which isn't working anymore since I
>>>> woke the computer up this morning. It would be nice if one could fix
>>>> it inside the PB. Maybe Ward can have his say in here, I do have the
>>>> protection plan from Apple, but of course most things that go wrong
>>>> are never covered.
>>>
>>> If your computer is covered by AppleCare and the USB port quit due
>>> to a
>>> hardware failure, then it's probably covered. I've been very
>>> impressed
>>> by the speed of AppleCare. We've used it twice on my wife's
>>> iBook--once
>>> for a flakey power supply and then for a screen problem--and the
>>> turnaround was very fast. When we shipped the machine in for the
>>> screen
>>> problem, it was picked up on Monday afternoon and was back by
>>> Thursday
>>> morning.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Andy
>> a0arno01 at athena.louisville.edu
>>
>> Remember the two most important things in life:
>> 1. Don't tell everyone everything you know
>> 2.
>>
>> The software box said, "Windows XP or better," so I bought a
>> Macintosh.
>>
>> "Macintosh. We may not have done everything right, but at least we
>> knew
>> the century was going to end."-Douglas Adams
>>
>>
>>
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