ih8bobvilla
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Hi,
I have a ~2 year old powerbook (aluminum) 1.5 GHz G4. Early on (4-6 months) it started unexpectedly crashing safari and a few other applications (mail and photoshop to name two more). I called apple care and they just had me repair the permissions and hope for the best. it was slightly better afterwards (I think) but not enough so, so I reformatted... I've gone through that cycle 3 times now (even while increasing to 1.25 gigs of ram)and am just about to format number 4 but I'm in a pinch. I can't afford the hassle without a fully bootable backup so I was thinking about swaping my hard drive for a spare 2.5" clean external I have and just setting it up to get me by temporarily with the security of always swapping the current one back in if there's an issue. But I have read (somewhere) that swapping the hard drive on this model will void any remaining apple care warranty... true or false?
The problem is well beyond application crashes and at this point any time the computer tries to bring up the "file picker" when saving or picking an attachment or openning a file from "open" rather than clicking it... it takes about 5 - 10 minutes (or freezes the app. ocassionally) to open it... and in the case of Mail, another 5 minutes to load it into the message. The finder is alos crashing (or "spooling" with the little color wheel) all too often and I've been left to force the computer off with the power button quite often lately. My apple care is still good and I recently got a replacement power supply from them after the original gave out.
I'm wondering if this is something I need to address with apple or if this is basically a problem with my hard drive as it is... and then does this mean I just have to live with it until I can afford to reformat my drive because replacing it would void the remaining year of my apple care plan?
Any suggestions or clues from similar experiences would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
I have a ~2 year old powerbook (aluminum) 1.5 GHz G4. Early on (4-6 months) it started unexpectedly crashing safari and a few other applications (mail and photoshop to name two more). I called apple care and they just had me repair the permissions and hope for the best. it was slightly better afterwards (I think) but not enough so, so I reformatted... I've gone through that cycle 3 times now (even while increasing to 1.25 gigs of ram)and am just about to format number 4 but I'm in a pinch. I can't afford the hassle without a fully bootable backup so I was thinking about swaping my hard drive for a spare 2.5" clean external I have and just setting it up to get me by temporarily with the security of always swapping the current one back in if there's an issue. But I have read (somewhere) that swapping the hard drive on this model will void any remaining apple care warranty... true or false?
The problem is well beyond application crashes and at this point any time the computer tries to bring up the "file picker" when saving or picking an attachment or openning a file from "open" rather than clicking it... it takes about 5 - 10 minutes (or freezes the app. ocassionally) to open it... and in the case of Mail, another 5 minutes to load it into the message. The finder is alos crashing (or "spooling" with the little color wheel) all too often and I've been left to force the computer off with the power button quite often lately. My apple care is still good and I recently got a replacement power supply from them after the original gave out.
I'm wondering if this is something I need to address with apple or if this is basically a problem with my hard drive as it is... and then does this mean I just have to live with it until I can afford to reformat my drive because replacing it would void the remaining year of my apple care plan?
Any suggestions or clues from similar experiences would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
