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?
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Just a wild guess but the HD may have shorted out. ( or blown up like a clutch on an Edsel ! )
The piece you heard rattling may have caused a short circuit. Try another drive ( from the swap list ?)
Hope it didn't effect the interface.
-- Adrian
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