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. >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > 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 > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2774 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20040408/7ecfe6c4/attachment.bin
