techknight
Well-known member
I picked up one of these guys off of ebay dirt cheap. maybe $15 bucks total? dont remember. Anyway... there is an issue that has me kind of stumped.
When its at room temp, you first turn it on, laptop works fine. boots into system 8.6 already loaded on the hard drive, all the programs work, etc.... if the computer is running and it starts to warm up, the OS will freeze what its doing. the mouse moves around, and keyboard works, but everything else is dead. no HD activity. If i force a restart, itll bong, come back up to the typical gray screen with the mouse pointer. and thats it. i can move the mouse around, but no disk icon, no happy or sad mac icon, nothing. just gray screen wtih mouse pointer. I can unplug it and cycle the power, same thing.
I have to let the laptop cool all the way down, once it cools all the way down, i can fire it up and it works fine. until it warms up, the cycle repeats.
any ideas?
When its at room temp, you first turn it on, laptop works fine. boots into system 8.6 already loaded on the hard drive, all the programs work, etc.... if the computer is running and it starts to warm up, the OS will freeze what its doing. the mouse moves around, and keyboard works, but everything else is dead. no HD activity. If i force a restart, itll bong, come back up to the typical gray screen with the mouse pointer. and thats it. i can move the mouse around, but no disk icon, no happy or sad mac icon, nothing. just gray screen wtih mouse pointer. I can unplug it and cycle the power, same thing.
I have to let the laptop cool all the way down, once it cools all the way down, i can fire it up and it works fine. until it warms up, the cycle repeats.
any ideas?
