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A possible fix for a non-booting G3 PowerBook
Authored by: macosx4me on Dec 15, '05 07:36:27AM

I'm sorry, but I don't see how this has any place in a forum about OS X.

As an Apple-certified tech of many years, I can say that yes, on that model powerbook, it can certainly happen that a faulty keyboard can keep it from booting.

Standard computer hardware troubleshooting is to pare down to the base hardware. Disconnect all peripherals. Disconnect native hardware: keyboard, modem, optical drive, hard drive (yes. Does it boot with a chime with HD disconnected ?), ram (does it boot and get to POST and indicate that no RAM is found)?

And on and on it goes.

Glad you got your old clunker working again, will be fine for word-processing :)



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A possible fix for a non-booting G3 PowerBook
Authored by: Little Neddy on Dec 15, '05 12:59:06PM

I appreciate snippets like this even though they are non-X.

I am in a similar situation, and now have another thing to throw at this G3 that doesn't want to start.

It is *still* a great machine and still does most OSX things, albeit slowly, that I need to do on the road



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