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Major g4 Powerbook problem. Please Help me.
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Well after being a good few months out of warranty my 17" 1.5 ghz powerbook has decided to act up. I noticed a few days ago that every application would run extremely slow, that is, if it wanted to fun at all. Anything I clicked on would receive the beach ball of doom and would remain that way. Even the force quiting process took forever, if I could force quit at all. Really it just came down to me having to hold down the power button to reboot.
Now the darn thing wont even boot up. When the screen comes to be grey with the apple in the center, the dark spinning circle thing comes on and just keeps spinning and doesn't do anything else. I've let it go for a good hour and nothing has changed. I ran disk utility to repair the HD. Still nothing. Then I decided to run the hardware test and this error came up when testing the logic board.
Error Code 2ISS/1/5: 0x40
I don't know what to do. I've never had anything like this happen to me. I've read plenty of forums now about Apple and bad logic boards. And also Apple products having problems just in time for warranty to expire (like my 1st gen ipod that's hard drive crashed just after warranty expired). After all the money they are bloodsucking out of me to even own this computer. Now I cant even afford to get it operating again if I do have to replace something. I just feel really low right now so If anyone can give me some sorta advice I would appreciate it very much. Thank you!
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Back up first and foremost. If you have DiskWarrior, run it. You can also try and reinstall the OS as a clean install. And pray.
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Well I can't really back up anything now that the computer doesn't even boot up. So I guess it wouldn't hurt to just erase and install the OS again huh...
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Well reinstalling OS X seemed to work kind of. Everything was working fine. My speakers no longer work. All that shows up for sound output is headphones???? I dunno what the heck that is about. And also I ran all the software updates including the complete update to 10.3.9. After that all of a sudden most of the applications no longer work. Like safar, itunes, ichat...all that stuff. I'll click on them and all they do is bounce and then they stop and nothing happens. So I clicked them with ctrl and it said app not responding so I could force quit even though the app really never launched. I dunno what the heck is going on now...
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Asia
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Hi,
Have you tried to start up from an external disk? If that works okay, it would point to your internal drive. (I've had bad luck with the Toshiba OEM drives in 2 12 inch G4s--one with symptoms similar to yours. But not the speaker problem)
Also you can use disk utility to check the disks S.M.A.R.T. status which should say verified.
If its still a no go and you're near an apple store, its probably worth your time to make an appt at the genius bar and let them look it over.
Good luck,
Rich (g4 12 1.33)
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