El Perro Loco
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Hi!
I have actually been here before, but subsequently lost my password, and mailed my mac to vancouver.
The Problem: Periodically, my mac freezes up, sometimes this is prefaced by the screen going wonky (i.e. seems to break up horizontally).
This usually necessitates a reboot. Invariably, my mac will boot, but the screen will stay dark.
Note: Sometimes by making minute adjustements to the monitor, I can stabilize the screen, but again I usually get the freeze up followed by a black monitor on the re-boot.
If I turn the system off (on one of the rare times it is working), it will rarely immediately start on the reboot - somtimes the monitor will stay black for days, weeks, even, then suddenly, it is back again, looking pretty as ever.
In all cases, I can hear the system working (fans, hd, and if there is a disc in the rom, I can hear it being accessed)
What I Have Done:
1) Reset the PRAM about eighty gazilion times. This sometimes seems to help.
2) booted the system from the install disk (for some reason this also sometimes seems to help - some sometimes not.
3) Reinstalled and updated the os
4) completed wiped the system, and reinstalled and updated the os.
5) Called it a bunch of names.
None of this seems to have helped. I got the mac from a friend who could not get it to run at all. The day I got it, OS10 V.Tiger had just been released, and upon installing it, the system seemed pretty sweet.
Stats are as follows
Machine Name: Powerbook G4 15"
Machine Model: Powerbook 3.5
CPU: PowerbookPC G4 (3.2)
Number of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1GHz
L2 Cache: 256kb
L3 Cache: 1 MB
Memory : 256 MB
Bus Speed: 133MHz
BootRom: 4.5.3f2
I can not remember the name of the tech who helped me last time. I am sorry abou that, as I really appreciated his help. I am, unfortunately, on a different system at the moment and have no access to those notes. I remember, though, that he did want the stat info.
I hope that helps, and any help you can give me would be greatly appreciate.
Thanks
Shawn
I have actually been here before, but subsequently lost my password, and mailed my mac to vancouver.
The Problem: Periodically, my mac freezes up, sometimes this is prefaced by the screen going wonky (i.e. seems to break up horizontally).
This usually necessitates a reboot. Invariably, my mac will boot, but the screen will stay dark.
Note: Sometimes by making minute adjustements to the monitor, I can stabilize the screen, but again I usually get the freeze up followed by a black monitor on the re-boot.
If I turn the system off (on one of the rare times it is working), it will rarely immediately start on the reboot - somtimes the monitor will stay black for days, weeks, even, then suddenly, it is back again, looking pretty as ever.
In all cases, I can hear the system working (fans, hd, and if there is a disc in the rom, I can hear it being accessed)
What I Have Done:
1) Reset the PRAM about eighty gazilion times. This sometimes seems to help.
2) booted the system from the install disk (for some reason this also sometimes seems to help - some sometimes not.
3) Reinstalled and updated the os
4) completed wiped the system, and reinstalled and updated the os.
5) Called it a bunch of names.
None of this seems to have helped. I got the mac from a friend who could not get it to run at all. The day I got it, OS10 V.Tiger had just been released, and upon installing it, the system seemed pretty sweet.
Stats are as follows
Machine Name: Powerbook G4 15"
Machine Model: Powerbook 3.5
CPU: PowerbookPC G4 (3.2)
Number of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1GHz
L2 Cache: 256kb
L3 Cache: 1 MB
Memory : 256 MB
Bus Speed: 133MHz
BootRom: 4.5.3f2
I can not remember the name of the tech who helped me last time. I am sorry abou that, as I really appreciated his help. I am, unfortunately, on a different system at the moment and have no access to those notes. I remember, though, that he did want the stat info.
I hope that helps, and any help you can give me would be greatly appreciate.
Thanks
Shawn
