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Thank you all for your replies! I will try to contact the repair center for an IDE drive cable replacement- hopefully, that is what is wrong, since a logic board replacement is simply too expensive. I also did run Memtest on the Powerbook, and everything checked out ok, so I think it's...

I have a Powerbook G4 Aluminum (15", 1.3ghz) which recently started having issues where the spinwheel would appear randomly even under light usage for about 30 seconds. This problem got worse and worse until eventually the computer started up with a question mark. I had assumed the hard drive...

I clean my powerbook about every other day with a special cleaning cloth I purchased at the Apple store. I don't wear a ring or a watch... I have no idea what's up with that area in particular. It peeled off when I was wiping it clean with a little gentle pressure.

I'm in a bit of a predicament here. On the one hand, I do know anodized aluminum does wear, and, seeing as how much usage I've gotten out of it, it's to be expected. But I have a suspicion that my powerbook's wear is getting a little bit extreme for a computer I keep meticulously clean...

It's a Maxtor Diamondmax (I want to say Diamondmax 9) 80gigs, 2MB Cache buffer. 7200RPM. (As an external drive, it was the Maxtor 3000DV) I didn't change the jumper settings.

Greetings. Pardon me if someone else has posted this, but I was unable to find it through searching. Basically, my 4GB drive was showing signs of death, so I reformatted (2 partitions) my external Maxtor 80GB Hard drive. I (gently, of course) removed it from its case and installed it in my...