Mac help - I think it might be dead!!!
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- wwfc
Afternoon! need some help petty urgently - I have a 17" powerbook - which I am trying to get onto a wireless network - having checked the airport card info in the system profiler, it had no info - so I guessed I needed to reseat/nudge back in the airport card - so I removed lower casing plate and keyboard from the bottom casing - there is no airport card installed (for some reason I now remember some IT bod at my last place taking it out) - and reassembled the casing to it's previous state...
...now here is where my trouble is...
it won't turn on now!!!!! - I get the green/orange light - but that's it!!!!?!?!?!? if you press or hold down the startup button it doesn't do anything at all.
I hold my hands up to not being a IT genius but even to my untrained eye - it doesn't look too clever. I didn't touch or plug/unplug anything - just removed the casing and then replaced it.
Is there anything that I should/n't have done? or is this a piece of string question?
I am sh~ttin' it a little as there is a lot of unbacked up work on there - and I just found a thread on a macforum that gave a logic board fatality - so a few words of reassurance are needed!
Anyone know what I should do?
- ismith0
First of all, if the logic board is dead all your data is fine. Most IT places will take out the HD and transfer it to a separate HD or onto DVDs.
Second, check to see if you dislodged the RAM while examining your non-existent Airport card. Ground yourself first, then slide it out and back in (make sure it is straight).
When you try to start up again, make sure it's plugged in.
- drgs0
Fail... <--- im so tired of this joke
- hiimerik0
Did you ground yourself when you went in?
- wwfc0
...yes, I think so...
but I am not sure y'know? would that be the problem?
- doesnotexist0
take it to the genius bar or call apple care.
- drgs0
do the same all over..check all... and try again
- wwfc0
....thanks y'all! - you're help did just that`!!! I got it going again - like a doughnut I hadn't replaced the doofer for the keyboard properly - when you know what you are doing like me - you don't bother to do it properly!
**shakes head and looks to floor**but thanks for the replies ;-)
much appreciated.- "when you know what you are doing like me - you don't bother to do it properly!" sounds like a personal problem.doesnotexist