Ti PowerBook G4, sudden death??
My Powerbook G4 has crashed while nothing than a screensaver was running - I
got a "X mon" exception message, sorry but I do not wrote it down.
There may be was some NFS traffic, I noticed the not responding
system, as I tried to unmount a NFS resource, I worked with before.
I'm running Debian-Linux (Woody), Kernel 2.4.17 Ben
The system was running well for several month before...
I tried to restart with the three Buttons (Option+Ctrl+Power), as it always
has helped in some worse situations -- but nothing happenes :-(
The only way to shut down was the reset button, which I never used before.
Then the bad surprise: Switching on, the hard drive spins up, but that was
all:
-no startup chime
-the display stays dark
-only the caps lock and num lock leds are working
The Power-Command-Option-P-R or -O-F has no effect too.
A CD boot does not work, because it does not load a CD while running
or powered on with Power-C.
Switching off is only possible using the reset button again or holding
the Power Button for about 4sec.
Any helping ideas, or how to find out if the mainboard/CPU is bad?
(I've still the 1 year warranty until 3/2002)
Percy
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