Re: pismo powerbook hangs

On 2007-09-06 13:32:26 -0500, Joshua Whalen <joshuafwhalen@xxxxxxxxx> said:

I have a 400 mhz pismo powerbook in very good condition. It runs like
a top with an external hard drive, but it hangs at startup with an
internal (any internal, I've tried several, all pulled from various
powerbooks) installed. I've replaced the logic board (assuming this must
be the culprit. a burnt out drive controller perhaps? turned out I was
wrong) and it still hangs. Before I go the trouble of replacing the
processor card, anyone care to offer $.02 as to why this is happening?
it's not like the processor card is so expensive (about $35 dollars) but
I'm sick of swapping parts for negative results. I have new power charge
controller, DC audio card, logic board, etc... What could make the hard
drive hang? The same drives work fine in other computers, and the
computer works fine when booted from firewire.

Is there a connector or ribbon cable between the logic board and the hard drive that may be bad?

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