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Re: PowerBook woes, since I got the PowerBook back, I've had five kernel panics, two on Thursday, three on Friday. Funny thing, but I wasn't getting kernel panics before I sent it in for repair. Also, I can no longer mount DVD Video discs. [Update: Now I can. Temporary glitch fixed by the kernel panic which forced a restart?] I am thinking they seriously messed something up with this computer when fixing rhe broken sound. Or maybe they just stuffed a known broken logic board in here until they could get me a good one. :-)

Regardless, I guess I'll have a broken PowerBook at OSCON, which is better than none.

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  • 1) Don't you have any friends at Apple? I mean, don't you maintain MacPerl or something? You must have occason to talk to Apple folks re that...

    2) This is utterly unacceptable. When my HD and SuperDrive went BOOM I had my machine back in 2 days. (well 3 if you count the night I shipped it...)

    3) You should be SCREAMING at them that you want a DIFFERENT PowerBook. I'd lend you my wife, Lynda, as your screaming advocate but with 5... no wait 6 Apple thingies in the house I need her for me. But seriously
  • Is your AirPort card loose?
    I had a similar problem with my PB (constant random kernel panics), and it turned out that the cause was a loose AirPort Card. Pushing it back into the slot so that it seated firmly fixed it.
    • Nice thought. No such luck on this machine, AirPort is not user-servicable I think, but there is a ZIF connector -- and RAM -- that might not be properly seated. I'll check.
      • AirPort is not user-servicable I think

        Oh?
        Doesn't Article 88058 [apple.com] apply to the 17" PBG4?
        • No, I think you misread. It explicitly does NOT apply to that computer.

          BTW, it didn't work, I found no loose connections, and still have kernel panics. That said, I get them only when I use the computer on my lap, instead of on my desk, where I don't touch it: external keyboard, sitting on a laptop stand. Could be heat, or movement, or pressure from typing, or somesuch.

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