Many moons ago I posted here about a problem I'm having with my Lombard. I received a few suggestions, tried them out, and had no luck. Since then, I've experimented with it a bit more and want to give it one more shot to see if someone out there has the key to fixing my PB.
A little over a year ago I was running OS X on my Lombard 400 and put it to sleep. When I tried to reawaken it, it went completely dead. I've reset the PM I don't know how many times and the result is always the same: the green light (which blinks when the computer is sleeping) goes on and stays on and the hard drive spins up. As soon as I push the reset button again, the whole thing goes dead. The reset button is the only button on the machine that gets any reaction from it of any sort. I've tried this routine with the battery and without, with the DVD drive and without, I've used two different power supplies (both of which work - or at least worked fine the last time I used them before all this), I replaced the pram battery, I've tried to boot it with and without the Lombard's keyboard, with each of the pieces of memory installed separately, with and without the hard drive . . . I've tried everything I can think of and the reaction is always the same. What I find particularly interesting is that when I take the machine apart and remove the processor card entirely, the computer still behaves the same way when power is supplied (maybe that should tell me the processor card is fried?)
Whew. I'm still getting nothing. Obviously I don't need this computer (I was in the process of selling it when it died) but it is an old buddy and I'd like to resurrect it and use it for sound recordings. If no one here can offer up any help I may just go ahead and sell it on eBay for parts but I thought I'd give it one last stab. Thanks in advance for any help anyone might offer.
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