Hello! I think that I just fried something in my
powerbook...
I have recently done some minor upgrades to my
Lombard. I put in more RAM, swapped in a larger HD and
upgraded the OS to Panther. I had thought in the last
few days that I MIGHT have heard something rattling in
there, but I whenever I'd recheck, I didn't hear it.
So...I assumed that it was okay.
Well, last night, as I was working with it on my lap,
there was a loud pop, and the computer froze up.
Shortly thereafter, I smelled something like burnt
plastic. After reopening the computer and removing
almost everything, I found a small loose metal piece
in the case under the hard drive.
Now, I can't boot up from the hard drive. If I reset
the PMU, I can get the computer to boot up from the
Mac OS Install CD; the computer will show up on the
desktop and all of my files (thankfully) appear. But
then when I try to set the hard drive as the startup
disk, it will only get as far as the startup sound. No
startup screen appears at all. Using Disk First Aid
didn't help, so I assume that it isn't the hard drive,
but rather something on the motherboard.
So any ideas on what I did? How can I figure out which
component is at fault?
Thanks,
Ted
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