[art_director]

I've been helping someone with a PowerBook G4 550 and am beginning to think the logic board or hard drive might be toast. The symptoms:

- OS X Jaguar was running very, very, very slowly. I ran Disk Warrior and it turns out the drive was severely fragmented. DW sped things up and we were looking good.

- Next step was to upgrade to Panther. Problem is the hard drive would not appear. I then tried DW another time, but once again, no hard drive to service.

- Restar the machine and it just hangs on a gray sceen. Nada.

- Zap PRAM...nope, no dice.

- Insert Jaguar CD again, nothing. Still a gray screen.

- When he brought the machine to me the battery wouldn't charge over 2% -- that's still the case now.


Anyone have thoughts? Bad RAM seems unlikely.

Thanks.

[siflippant]

Well, I could be wrong [I'm sure someone on this board will tell me if I am] - but I've had a similar experience happen to me twice - and each time it's been the HD - back up asap and see if you can maybe swap out the existing drive?

I hope it won't be a case of you doing all that THEN finding out it IS the logic board!

Good luck man...

[art_director]

siflippant:

Thanks for the reply. I had thought of the HD but that wouldn't explain the one year old battery not charging, hence my suspicion about the logic board. One other thought is that the battery on the board is dead. If my memory serves the same symptoms surfaced with a machine I had previously. Hmmm.....

Again, thanks.