It's a Rev. A 15" Aluminum Powerbook... and it's been pretty much dead for a year.
Here's it's story: It worked fine and dandy for like 2.5 years with only the white spot problem early in it's life. Gradually over time the machine slowed down (stock 256 mb ram...) and I added more ram, which drastically increased the performace.
Then it slowly started to die on me. It would randomly upon startup get stuck on the grey screen with a small finder icon/face thing in the middle blinking with a question mark. This grew more frequent until it finally did it EVERY SINGLE TIME. I did some poking around with the install disk and it couldn't seem to find the hard drive. It wasn't even an option in disk utility. I know! the hard drive must have died! So I replaced the hard drive myself (I didn't get applecare... d'oh!) and it worked fine and dandy... for a few weeks. Then the same problems began to appear (the weird thing on startup, not finding the harddrive...) and conveniently the macbook came out so I snatched it up on the 2nd day it was out. My powerbook has been collecting dust in it's terrible state ever since.
So, it's summer, I'm bored... I try out the ole powerbook and... it's still doing the same thing. I put in the startup disk, mess around, it still doesn't recognize that I harddrive exists. Strange. I continue messing around and somehow get to Apple Hardware Test or something like that... and run a test on the system. It appears to check the function of all significant parts (Motherboard, RAM, Hard Drive, combo drive, graphics card, airport). I run it. according to the test (I ran it several times), NOTHING is wrong with my computer... everything checks out as "good."
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(any questions just ask, and thanks in advance!!)
Here's it's story: It worked fine and dandy for like 2.5 years with only the white spot problem early in it's life. Gradually over time the machine slowed down (stock 256 mb ram...) and I added more ram, which drastically increased the performace.
Then it slowly started to die on me. It would randomly upon startup get stuck on the grey screen with a small finder icon/face thing in the middle blinking with a question mark. This grew more frequent until it finally did it EVERY SINGLE TIME. I did some poking around with the install disk and it couldn't seem to find the hard drive. It wasn't even an option in disk utility. I know! the hard drive must have died! So I replaced the hard drive myself (I didn't get applecare... d'oh!) and it worked fine and dandy... for a few weeks. Then the same problems began to appear (the weird thing on startup, not finding the harddrive...) and conveniently the macbook came out so I snatched it up on the 2nd day it was out. My powerbook has been collecting dust in it's terrible state ever since.
So, it's summer, I'm bored... I try out the ole powerbook and... it's still doing the same thing. I put in the startup disk, mess around, it still doesn't recognize that I harddrive exists. Strange. I continue messing around and somehow get to Apple Hardware Test or something like that... and run a test on the system. It appears to check the function of all significant parts (Motherboard, RAM, Hard Drive, combo drive, graphics card, airport). I run it. according to the test (I ran it several times), NOTHING is wrong with my computer... everything checks out as "good."
?????
???????(any questions just ask, and thanks in advance!!)
