Battery Problems / Re: off topic - Apple service sucks
In reply to David, Forget about Apple unless you have
got money, time and patience to burn,. Best to DIY.
Apologies to all on list if this is turning into a bit
of a Hardware quiz session, but if anyone can help
with this problem it will help me a great deal and
perhaps edify some other troubled ppcers out there :
So, the riddle goes like this :
My Powerbook G3 Pismo/Firewire/Bronze keyboard model
which is dual boot Sarge and OSX does not switch on
anymore or does so only temporarily.
For some time I have been running it without a battery
as the battery only held a charge for 3-4 mins (since
I installed the debian side, before it was more like
20mins). It began to crash/switch itself off with no
warning so after reading around I put the battery back
just to help it boot. This helped for a few days -
however, now everytime I move the machine -home to
work etc it does not boot up again - usually I take it
part, pull the top slot memory, the hard drive, the
pram, replace it all, and sometimes in varying
combinations this works - it boots, everything is
dandy it runs tfor a few days - I try not to switch it
off - then when I do, it doesn't boot up again.
It has currently been off for two days and I've tried
al my usual tricks with no result! The closest I get
is a phut sound from the audio as I press the button,
but it does not revive...
What do I do? I love my pismo, I know its on its last
legs after six problem free years, but I want it
running again.
Anthony
--- David Smoot <davidsmoot@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently had to send my powerbook back for
> warranty repair because OSX was
> failing to recognize the extra 512 megs of ram in
> the lower ram slot.
>
> Before I sent my system back, I had my 100 gig drive
> set up as dual boot
> with roughly an 80 - 20 split between OS X and
> Debian.
>
> I was irritated when I discovered I got back a wiped
> clean 80 gig partition
> for OS X.
>
> I was mad when I discovered my backup was corrupt
> and I lost 4 months of
> data.
>
> I am now furious to discover that they took my 100
> gig drive and replaced it
> with a 80 gig drive. That's right. Those idiots
> didn't just wipe my drive,
> they gave me the wrong freaking drive. They
> apparently made no effort to
> preserve my data on my system
>
> I'm so mad. I bought a Mac partially because of
> their reputation for
> quality. I am not at all impressed by their
> service.
>
> And of course I figure this out at 9pm on a Saturday
> night where I cannot do
> anything about it.
>
> David
>
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