Hi Esther,
Many thanks I will take it up to our local apple store.
Regards Dean
At 07:50 PM 3/03/2010, you wrote:
Hi Dean,
Do you have an Apple Store near you? I also had my PowerBook G4
lose it's wireless reception after I'd used it for about 4
years. It turns out that the AirPort wireless card was loose and
not fully connecting because it was no longer firmly seated all the
way into the slot. (Since laptops get carried around a lot, these
cards can get jostled over time). I took it into the genius bar at
my local Apple Store, and they just reseated the card in the slot
and everything worked again. Took about 5 minutes, no charges, and
they cleaned my screen and keyboard just as a service. You could
probably check this yourself if you had to, but there's a small
metal flap that locks down into position, and there are also some
wires connected to the AirPort card and a ribbon cable that I didn't
want to damage in trying to push things back to reseat the card into
the slot. So I had the Apple Store folks look this over. It's very
fast for them to do the fix if the card has come loose. But you have
to push back the ribbon cable attached to the card, and make sure
that none of the wires has snagged when you push down the metal flap
and close things up, so I'd recommend that you have one of the Apple
Store people do this check if it's easy for you to get to a store.
I also found out during this visit that you can schedule
appointments for the Genius Bar at your local Apple retail store
through an online web form. The process is entirely
accessible. Here's a link to an old post that described how to do this:
<http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg19144.html>http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg19144.html
(Accessibile Web Reservations with your local Apple Store)
I think this pretty much still works as outlined.
Good luck, and let us know how this turns out. My guess is that
your wireless card is simply not flush in the slot any more, which
is why no device shows up now. At least, that's what happened in my case.
Cheers,
Esther
On Mar 2, 2010, at 17:53, Dean Adams wrote:
Hey All,
My Powerbook G4 has a problem with the wireless receiver
it seems to have died or have I pressed a key combo that turns it
of if I go into the Airport Configuration tool it says there is no
wireless devices it has either died or I have turned it of
somehow. So is there a way to turn it back on or has it just died .
Regards Dean
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