i had this problem on my Powerbook 15 1.65 ghz but it was an issue with apple. Unfortunately my machine did not fall into their serial number recall list but had the exact problem, work that out. Anyway, the repair was supposed to be a motherboard replacement and apple quoted 1200€ here in germany, more than what the 1.5 year old powerbook was worth at the time but when i searched online I found a company called werner media in the US and they fixed the machine for 200$. It worked a treat for a long time but then when I updated the Operating saystem from panther to tiger the ram slot stoped working again. I have since given the now 5 year old powerbook to my son adn installed leopard, it runs well and sometimes when he starts it he had 2gb ram and other days he has 1gb ram so basically the trick is to find out what they at werner media do and then once fixed...do not change the OS.
I always buy the extra warranty for my apple laptops now (3 years) and I don't regret it as I have had my display on my second mac replaced twice which was also a very expensive repair. It just sucks that you have to pay 250$ for a warranty which is really something that should be standard.
i had this problem on my Powerbook 15 1.65 ghz but it was an issue with apple. Unfortunately my machine did not fall into their serial number recall list but had the exact problem, work that out. Anyway, the repair was supposed to be a motherboard replacement and apple quoted 1200€ here in germany, more than what the 1.5 year old powerbook was worth at the time but when i searched online I found a company called werner media in the US and they fixed the machine for 200$. It worked a treat for a long time but then when I updated the Operating saystem from panther to tiger the ram slot stoped working again. I have since given the now 5 year old powerbook to my son adn installed leopard, it runs well and sometimes when he starts it he had 2gb ram and other days he has 1gb ram so basically the trick is to find out what they at werner media do and then once fixed...do not change the OS.
I always buy the extra warranty for my apple laptops now (3 years) and I don't regret it as I have had my display on my second mac replaced twice which was also a very expensive repair. It just sucks that you have to pay 250$ for a warranty which is really something that should be standard.
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