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{$PW$}@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar) wrote:

>> I have, but in the latest in a long line of PB3400 faults, the CD-ROM died
>> on the 23rd. It's a delightful machine, but boy is it unreliable. It's now
>> had *two* new logic boards, a new power board, a new trackpad and a new
>> hard drive!

>I've had a bit of trouble with mine, 8.5 & 8.5.1 don't work properly,
>8.5 decides my disks are empty, 8.5.1 crashes when waking from sleep,
>have you tried either?

Haven't dared. I upgraded from 7.6 to 8.1, but have had so many hardware
faults that I haven't wanted to complicate things further by messing with
the system.

>Also, for the 2nd time, today it refused to start up from battery, I
>hadn't used it for a week or so, 3 of 4 battery lights were active so
>the power was there, it wasn't until I plugged it into the main that I
>could get it to start and then it took about 30 seconds of an odd
>electrical clicking sound before it started up.

Ah, the first symptom of a dodgy power board. Get it replaced if it's still
under warranty - it gets much worse rather rapidly. Mine started exactly
like that, and within a fortnight you could only switch it on with mains
power, battery out, and by a LOT of coaxing (eg. holding the power key down
for over a minute).

If it's no longer in warranty, email me for a possible solution.

Ben

-- 
Ben Lovejoy                    | 'To see tomorrow's PC,
ben@lovejoy.demon.co.uk        |  look at today's Macintosh'
http://www.lovejoy.demon.co.uk |  -- BYTE, Oct 1995