The Pismo Saga, part3 - a happy ending.
Jan. 24th, 2004 03:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jbsegalSo I went over to Wadlow's house tonight to hack upon my pismo, using the spare he has around as a test parts with.
I pulled out parts. He pulled out parts. We tried my parts in his. It still worked.
We pulled off our displays and put mine on his. My display worked.
We took everything all the way apart and put 90% of his parts in 10% of my machine - the 10% that we hadn't otherwise tested. It worked.
Our conclusion? My machine works.
We put everything back together, exactly as it was. My machine still worked.
What was broken? We have no idea. Best guess is something came loose.
Well, it's back now. Yay. Happy.
Will it fail again? I have no idea... I hope not.
Anyone want an inverter board? It cost me $20. I'll sell it for $15
I pulled out parts. He pulled out parts. We tried my parts in his. It still worked.
We pulled off our displays and put mine on his. My display worked.
We took everything all the way apart and put 90% of his parts in 10% of my machine - the 10% that we hadn't otherwise tested. It worked.
Our conclusion? My machine works.
We put everything back together, exactly as it was. My machine still worked.
What was broken? We have no idea. Best guess is something came loose.
Well, it's back now. Yay. Happy.
Will it fail again? I have no idea... I hope not.
Anyone want an inverter board? It cost me $20. I'll sell it for $15
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Date: 2004-01-24 08:18 am (UTC)A) remove card in question, if not certain which card then remove all.
B) vacuum the backplane and all card
C) lightly run contact fingers on removed cards with an pencil erasure.
D) Put cards back in backplane, making sure that they are seated.
Fixed +90% of the problems.
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Date: 2004-01-24 11:07 am (UTC)Hopefully they'll return my titanium powerbook to me in a reasonable amount of time in proper working order...
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Date: 2004-01-24 04:32 pm (UTC)Or whatever other American Motors Corporation vehicle it was that was lurking inside your PowerBook.
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Date: 2004-01-25 06:57 am (UTC)WRT your laptop problems JB, it's like bringing your car to a mechanic and having it work perfectly despite the fact that for the prior 3 weeks it made this awful KaChunk sound whenever you gave it the gas :)
Wadlow (And you too, but this is YOUR machine so the magic doesn't work :) is a sysadmin so the same effect holds :)
Glad your laptop's OK though. Damn things are such an investment and are so flaky sometimes!