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MDD Dual 867 USB woes
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srfdriver22
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May 13, 2004, 11:46 AM
 
I've posted here before about my MDD locking up for no reason, CPU dumps on the screen and not booting. Well, I think I have narrowed it down to the Belkin 4-port USB switch that I'm using. When I have the keyboard plugged directly into the back of the machine, it won't lock. I did this for the entire day and it worked fine. Then, before I went to bed, I plugged the keyboard back into the switch and went to bed. Note, I don't set my computer to go to sleep.

When I woke up, the machine had been locked up since 2:45AM. No screen dumps, nothing. This hadn't happened the entire time that I had been skipping my Belkin switch.

Now I have to manually swap the keyboard between that and the switch which still goes to my pc. (I do win32 coding on it that I cannot do on the mac)
     
srfdriver22  (op)
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May 13, 2004, 12:18 PM
 
Great, now it doesn't chime and won't boot.
     
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May 13, 2004, 03:31 PM
 
Try hitting the CUDA reset switch. It's on the logic board near the PRAM battery.
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srfdriver22  (op)
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May 13, 2004, 05:08 PM
 
Did that and nothing. I just got back from taking it to the Apple Store. The Genius there couldn't get it to boot up, so it'll at least be $75 to look at it. The last time they replaced my logic board and my processor, which cost me around $750. I can't afford to do that so I might as well put this in the basement and buy a G5...nice excuse eh?
     
   
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