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- dablammit
Hey
I am having a really weird problem with my ibook.
A few months ago my HD got screwed, so i bought a new one and had my friend help me install it. It installed fine, but we found that when we had the airport card inserted the ibook refused to boot up. I can not seem to get around this, I have tried playing with it but I am lost.Does anyone know why I may be having this problem?
(late 2001 dual USB
500mhz, 40gb HD, 640 Ram)
- ********0
Is he any relation to General Fuckup?
- dablammit0
I found out more:
When my airport card is installed,
if i push the power button nothing happens, but the caps lock starts to glow.
If i then push the tiny reset button, the caps lock shuts off. If i then hold down the power button, the caps lock comes back on, but then shuts off after about 6 seconds of holding the power button down.Any ideas?
- rabattski0
sounds like a conflict. weird though. dunno how those two could conflict each other. os 9 or os x? and what airport card do you have?
- rabattski0
do you have the power connected? sometimes it won't start up if the batteries are too low.
- rasko40
worn out and that'll ooh I dont like the sound of this, I dont like the sound of this at all.. this is going to be a tricky job, yeah tricky little number. We're gonna have to remove your whole topend and replace the main gasket, then your overhead manifold sprocket is likely worn out as a result and tha will have worn out your main bearings. Your looking at about 12 grand minimum. plus labour. yeah thats a fucker mate, isn't it john? a fucker that is.
- dablammit0
I am running panther 3.3
The airport, I dunno, it says its 128 bit and the copyright is 1999, i dunno how else to tell.
I really cant figure it out.
I also don't have my heat shield installed anymore, but even what it was it wouldn't work still. I have been taking the battery out when I fiddle with it, so i dunno whats going on. Its really annoying though.
*I want to avoid going to Apple about it, they will give me some outrageous quote for something that probably isnt serious.
- jevad0
lol
- dablammit0
yes, yes it is a fucker.
I think the CV joints need replaced as well.
- rabattski0
but if you put it back together without the airport card it boots up allright?
- rabattski0
how did you set the harddrive jumpers? as a master or as a slave?
- dablammit0
yes, right away.
- dablammit0
I really dont know anything about the hard drive, my friend mainly set that up for me. I know that I have it partitioned, with about 3gb going to a Swap drive, and the rest going to my main drive.
- ********0
sucks and Apple is bad about returns I hear?
- rabattski0
ok. so if you insert the airport card it won't boot at all? try this, take the hd out and keep the airport card in, boot from your system cd. if it boots up allright than you at least know your airport isn't fucked and that it is a genuine conflict with the harddrive.
- rabattski0
oh apple can do weird stuff. they replaced a harddrive (of a friends ti-book) with a new one. threw the old one away. thing was it was sent to apple because the keyboard was busted.
- rabattski0
check with your friend with the drive settings. how did he exactly configure it. could be a wrong config of the hd's jumpersettings.
- dablammit0
Is that the only way to test if the airport is operational?
I do have another identical ibook with working airport, could i just swap out the airport cards to see if mine works?Thanks for all the help by the way.
- dablammit0
is configuring the jumper settings an easy fix, provided that that is the problem? I have since moved, so the friend is 1k miles away. I am on my own for fixing it.
- rabattski0
well there's more to an airport card than just the card, you also have the slot. which could be the problem as well.
anyways, it's a matter of deduction. if you would test the airport card first by booting up from a system cd without having the hd connected you would know that the airport card and everything involved is ok or not. if that works fine and it boots up with just the hd as well and it doesn't boot up when both are connected then look at what as changed? in the old situation everything worked right? in the new one, a new hd, it doesn't. so the problem is probably based on the new hd. unless it is a buggy harddrive the only thing you can change or what can influence the system are the hd jumpers.
if you don't have a manual from the hd check online, most hd manufacturers have the complete jumper settings online. take out the hd, check if it's the right config. check all possible settings. if it's master try slave or vice versa. if that doesn't work at all than you're airport card and hd can't get along with eachother. which would be extremely odd.
- brundlefly0
not the CV's, the 2001 had a dual tracked pausi-tractional rear differential.
Split the SCSI inputs, reroute the airport thru the crankshaft, change to a 25 volt fuse, they'll be the red ones, install
reboot, and you should be running with 225 horses, it'll be enough to getcha home.