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From: Jim on 12 Jul 2010 07:10 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > Have you tried booting from a dvd, or an external hard drive? > > > > Yes (DVD) - no deal. Plus I now can't get the disk out... > > It doesn't respond to the mouse down on start? I thought that was a > really low level function that didn't need the OS to start? Doesn't seem to, no. I power on, mash the trackpad button down, wait through the 'bong!' and for some time after, but zilch. Plus I can't find the manual eject pinhole either. > I guess that would be a motherboard problem then Looking that way, sadly. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Jon B on 12 Jul 2010 07:59 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Have you tried booting from a dvd, or an external hard drive? > > > > > > Yes (DVD) - no deal. Plus I now can't get the disk out... > > > > It doesn't respond to the mouse down on start? I thought that was a > > really low level function that didn't need the OS to start? > > Doesn't seem to, no. I power on, mash the trackpad button down, wait > through the 'bong!' and for some time after, but zilch. Plus I can't > find the manual eject pinhole either. Don't think there is on the later drives, it's a drive out & take the lid off the drive job. > > > I guess that would be a motherboard problem then > > Looking that way, sadly. > Put a replacement logic board in one the other month, but as the board was nearly �200 alone, I was more expecting the customer to write it off. I may be interested in taking it off you for parts though. Can send the disk back in the post ;-) -- Jon B Above email address IS valid. <http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
From: Hugo Rogers on 12 Jul 2010 18:11 On 12/07/2010 12:59, Jon B wrote: > Jim<jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> Woody<usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >> >>>>> Have you tried booting from a dvd, or an external hard drive? >>>> >>>> Yes (DVD) - no deal. Plus I now can't get the disk out... >>> >>> It doesn't respond to the mouse down on start? I thought that was a >>> really low level function that didn't need the OS to start? >> >> Doesn't seem to, no. I power on, mash the trackpad button down, wait >> through the 'bong!' and for some time after, but zilch. Plus I can't >> find the manual eject pinhole either. > > Don't think there is on the later drives, it's a drive out& take the > lid off the drive job. >> >>> I guess that would be a motherboard problem then >> >> Looking that way, sadly. >> > Put a replacement logic board in one the other month, but as the board > was nearly �200 alone, I was more expecting the customer to write it > off. > > I may be interested in taking it off you for parts though. Can send the > disk back in the post ;-) my g4 died too, but was fixed by a replacement hard drivee... have u tried that?
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 13 Jul 2010 09:44 On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:06:38 +0100, flavio_mataniTAKETHISBITOUT(a)mac.com (Flavio Matani) wrote: >ray <datasmog(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Flavio Matani <flavio_mataniTAKETHISBITOUT(a)mac.com> wrote: >> >> >-and it doesn't warn you it's going to die >> > and go to sleep when it runs out of juice like the original battery, it >> > just switches off without warning... >> >> I have a MacBookPro with the original battery that does that, so I don't >> think you can blame the replacement. > >Ah, ok, data point noted. I hadn't seen that before; every laptop I'd >had would tell you it was running on reserve and send itself to sleep >when it 'thought' it was getting a bit close. Well, they're supposed to, but some of my Apple lappies have needed more recalibration than others. My Air took three loops of recalibration to stop just running out of juice without warning. Works fine nowadays. Cheers - Jaimie -- Women's breasts are like electric train sets. They're meant for kids, but usually it's the fathers who wind up playing with them.
From: Jim on 13 Jul 2010 09:49
Jon B <black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com> wrote: > I may be interested in taking it off you for parts though. Can send the > disk back in the post ;-) I'll hang onto it for now, but I'll certaily keep that offer in mind. Thanks. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ |