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G3 Power Book, won't Power UP
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l008com
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May 21, 2004, 04:59 PM
 
Something happened to this machine, it will no longer take power from its AC adapter. It ran off the battery until it died. A new AC adapter had no effect. Its must be the laptop. I'm thinking the AC/Sound Card. Anyone else have any thoughts on the topic?
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May 21, 2004, 05:38 PM
 
Originally posted by l008com:
Something happened to this machine, it will no longer take power from its AC adapter. It ran off the battery until it died. A new AC adapter had no effect. Its must be the laptop. I'm thinking the AC/Sound Card. Anyone else have any thoughts on the topic?
This may not be exactly what you wanna hear but it looks like this may be a sign to put out some cash for a new Powerbook. It won't be worth paying a technician to repair an old Mac that doesn't run OSX very well and then after the fix you will still have the old computer.
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May 23, 2004, 10:13 AM
 
Originally posted by l008com:
Something happened to this machine, it will no longer take power from its AC adapter. It ran off the battery until it died. A new AC adapter had no effect. Its must be the laptop. I'm thinking the AC/Sound Card. Anyone else have any thoughts on the topic?
Which G3 is it? Did you try a PMU reset? This is likely to be the sound card, which isn't too expensive to get fixed.

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