Broken PowerBook - what to do with it?
- From: Mark Etherington <marke@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:50:21 +0100
My PowerBook broke.
Switched it on one morning and it froze during startup. I tried to reboot and got the dreaded three beeps, accompanied by the worrying smell of melting electronics.
A quick chat with a lovely man on the Apple support line (Omar) confirmed that three beeps at startup indicates a RAM problem. I declined his offer of giving him £25 so he could talk me through some additional fault-finding tips and instead had a go at swapping around the two 256Mb RAM sticks in the machine. I couldn't find a combination that worked, so I'm presuming that the logic board has died.
I've acquired a new PBG4 from eBay [1] and have extracted the HD from the old machine and got it up and running in an external case. The question is, what to do with the old machine.
It's a TiBook, 800MHz DVI model. Standard RAM (512MB), HD (40GB), AirPort. Capable of booting into OS9, if it was capable of booting at all. Some case damage. [2]
Options I'm considering:
- Sell the machine as it is, either privately or through eBay, for someone else to fix or break up for parts.
- Break up the machine into parts myself and sell them off individually.
- Get the machine fixed then sell it.
- Try to find a second-hand logic board and do the repair myself. I spotted this which might help: <http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5792439758>
I think the machine would be worth about £500 fully working condition, which probably makes a full repair by an Apple technician uneconomic. But what do you think is my best bet?
TIA
Mark
[1] 1.33GHz, 256MB RAM (now upgraded to 768MB), 60GB HD, combo drive, 15" screen. New, sealed, unused although last year's model. £930.
[2] It was an ex-display model from John Lewis. The case was damaged so I got a big discount, but it worked fine until recently.
-- Mark Etherington marke@xxxxxxxxxxxx .
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