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Title:
Pismo will not start up
Text:
| My Pismo will 'chime' after the power button has been pressed, the screen will light up but nothing else will happen. |
| I have tried pressing the Restart button (PMU). I have also tried starting and holding down the apple, option P and R buttons and waiting for two chimes (tip from the PowerBook manual). Same result. |
| I have tried to start up with the PRAM battery removed (and Airport Card removed). I have also removed and reseated the processor. |
| The machine does seem to be making some sound (whirring of some sort can be heard). |
| Can anyone think of a particular failure which would give this result? |
| Pismo 400MHz, 512 MB Ram, OS X 10.3.9 |
| '''UPDATE:'''Th |
| I thought that I had got to the bottom of the problem (hard drive failure)but now something has happened to open it up all over again. |
| I have tried swapping parts from a second 'spares' machine. I have tried to use the hard drive from this but I have been getting the same result as before. When I took the hard drive from the original machine and put it into the spare, it fired up first time! |
| Any thoughts on what is stopping the first machine from firing up properly? |
| Anyone?! |
Device:
PowerBook G3 Pismo
Status:
open
Edit by Ben Eisenman,
Title:
| Pismo will not start up |
| Pismo will not start up |
Text:
| My Pismo will 'chime' after the power button has been pressed, the screen will light up but nothing else will happen. |
| I have tried pressing the Restart button (PMU). I have also tried starting and holding down the apple, option P and R buttons and waiting for two chimes (tip from the |
| I have tried pressing the Restart button (PMU). I have also tried starting and holding down the apple, option P and R buttons and waiting for two chimes (tip from the |
| I have tried to start up with the PRAM battery removed (and Airport Card removed). I have also removed and reseated the processor. |
| The machine does seem to be making some sound (whirring of some sort can be heard). |
| Can anyone think of a particular failure which would give this result? |
| Pismo 400MHz, 512 MB Ram, OS X 10.3.9 |
| '''UPDATE:'''Th |
| I thought that I had got to the bottom of the problem (hard drive failure)but now something has happened to open it up all over again. |
| I have tried swapping parts from a second 'spares' machine. I have tried to use the hard drive from this but I have been getting the same result as before. When I took the hard drive from the original machine and put it into the spare, it fired up first time! |
| Any thoughts on what is stopping the first machine from firing up properly? |
| Anyone?! |
Device:
PowerBook G3 Pismo
Status:
open
Original post by Mal Partridge,
Title:
Pismo will not start up
Text:
My Pismo will 'chime' after the power button has been pressed, the screen will light up but nothing else will happen.
I have tried pressing the Restart button (PMU). I have also tried starting and holding down the apple, option P and R buttons and waiting for two chimes (tip from the Powerbook manual). Same result.
I have tried to start up with the PRAM battery removed (and Airport Card removed). I have also removed and reseated the processor.
The machine does seem to be making some sound (whirring of some sort can be heard).
Can anyone think of a particular failure which would give this result?
Pismo 400MHz, 512 MB Ram, OS X 10.3.9
Device:
PowerBook G3 Pismo
Status:
open