Re: Horked TiBook: need assistance

2001-10-21 Thread Jason M. Goodwin
Thanks for the suggestions everyone...turns out it is a hardware problem (just bad timing on my part, it would have failed regardless of what I was diong), Apple tech support had me try a million things, and they think that the logic board needs to be replaced...So, its going back to Apple for r

Re: Horked TiBook: need assistance

2001-10-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>This morning I tried the snag key 'c' to boot off the debian 2.2r3 CD I just >burned (yeah, I realized afterwords I need to do the boot cd:,\yaboot from OF >since I don't get anything but a white screen). Since then, when I power it >on, I hear the Apple chime thing, but the screen never powers

Re: Horked TiBook: need assistance

2001-10-20 Thread Henrik Edlund
I had similar problems on my iBook2, the brightness had gotten stuck in off mode (which I didn't know then, it just was like lcd was dead). Talking to Apple Support we tried everything, nothing helped, until I on my own booted from the MacOS9 CD that came with the ibook2 and waited for it too boot

Re: Horked TiBook: need assistance

2001-10-20 Thread Jason M. Goodwin
Yeah, I'm starting to think its broken hardware...man this sucks! I tried the command-option-p-r thing, but I never get the extra chimes. A guy showed me what it's supposed to do on a TiBook (went by a local mac retailer today). He reset it, held the keys down and chime, chime, chime it went..

Re: Horked TiBook: need assistance

2001-10-20 Thread Colin Walters
"Jason M. Goodwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I've managed to completely hork my new TiBook whilst > attempting to install debian on it. (I'm new to apples, but have > been using debian for some time now) I'd greatly appreciate any > help! What you describe sounds like broken hardware; b

Re: Horked TiBook: need assistance

2001-10-20 Thread Jason M. Goodwin
Not sure thats an option...just got it from a friend yesterday, supposed to pay him on Monday (though it is still under warranty)! It was running fine up until my latest install efforts this morning...looks like it may be a long weekend ;) Jason On Saturday 20 October 2001 13:17, Jeffrey W. Ba

Re: Horked TiBook: need assistance

2001-10-20 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Jason M. Goodwin wrote: > Well, I've managed to completely hork my new TiBook whilst attempting to > install debian on it. (I'm new to apples, but have been using debian for some > time now) I'd greatly appreciate any help! Sounds like it's fucked. Take it to a nearby Apple

Horked TiBook: need assistance

2001-10-20 Thread Jason M. Goodwin
Well, I've managed to completely hork my new TiBook whilst attempting to install debian on it. (I'm new to apples, but have been using debian for some time now) I'd greatly appreciate any help! This morning I tried the snag key 'c' to boot off the debian 2.2r3 CD I just burned (yeah, I realized