[muglo] Re: A Powerbook G3

I don't even pretend to be able to trouble-shoot your problems on e-mail.

1. What PowerBook G3 is it (what speed and what ports on the back -- SCSI or 
FireWire)?

2. What OS(es) is(are) on the computer?

3. What exactly do you mean when you say doesn't start reliably? Does it 
always turn on? (I can't quite get that one) i.e. green light, fans, HD, 
screen, etc. Or do you get nothing?

You should be able to get replacement parts for a *lot* cheaper than what 
Mac Outpost quoted you. Check out <http://www.pbparts.com/> 
<http://www.powerbookmedic.com/xcart1/catalog/parts.html> 
<http://www.powerbookguy.com/> <http://www.pbfixit.com/cart/customer/>

Even check out eBay. You can get the power supply/sound card for 1/5 the 
price Apple gouges.

Eric.


>From: doug rogers <dougsamu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: "Terry  Steeper" <Terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,"MUGLO Online" 
><muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [muglo] A Powerbook G3
>Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:59:39 -0400
>
>It has what might be a number of problems, or one problem causing other
>erratic behaviours. Bit of a puzzle.
>
>This has been in to Peter at MacOutpost and he has suggested a number of
>likely things that it could be, but to chase them one at a time would be
>too pricey.
>
>The problems it has are
>
>1) It won't start reliably
>  a) Won't start if powercord plugged in
>  b) the drive won't mount when I do boot to a CD
>2) The keyboard is dead
>
>At this state Peter had his diagnostic look at it and offered:
>
>1) that the drive might need to be replaced -> $80
>2) possible logic board problem -> replace -> $375
>3) Sound card/Power inverter -> replace -> $265
>4) a replacement keyboard -> $139
>
>Well. I let the baby sit around. It's been left alone for about a month
>now. Two days ago I decided to poke at it again.
>
>Did the powermanager reset sequence as I have done a hundred times (take
>battery out, disconnect, press keys, wait... etc.) Seems to work from the
>keyboard. The green light comes on. whirring and clicking noises...
>
>Well the sweet thing decides to work again. I pulled everything off the
>hard drive - yes the drive mounted, and booted.
>It wouldn't wake up from Sleep if the power cord was inserted.
>It would boot to the battery... which would charge if the power cord was
>inserted.
>It would shut down and restart to the battery but not restart if the
>powercord was inserted.
>It would go to sleep but wake up immediately if the powercord was
>unplugged.
>The keyboard remains dead throughout all this.
>
>So after a day of playing with it, it seems to be perfectly normal again
>- except for the keyboard.
>
>I can shut down and boot with the powercord.....
>
>  SO I decide that maybe there is a connector loose for the keyboard. Take
>it apart. look. reset the ribbons and connectors... everything seems
>fine. put it back together and now its back to stage one. Dead powerbook.
>Can't find the drive to boot to it. mount to Tech Tool CD, can't find the
>drive to mount it. Now it won't boot at all.
>
>Some kind of short somewhere? Is it in the powermanager? (i don't have a
>keyboard, obviously to hit the Function/Control/Shift powerbutton
>sequence. The sequence doesn't seem to work now.)
>
>We don't want to spend, again, what we paid for it to fix it. We will
>have to replace it for my son needs it for school. If we can fix it for
>about $100, we'll go there. And we would rather spend $100 than have to
>get another laptop in the $600 range. And if we can't fix it, we'll have
>to get another laptop anyway....
>
> >                  <http://home.golden.net/~samu>                 <
> >   There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.  <

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