10-15-2009, 09:39 PM
Here I am at the library (using a badly leaning Gateway POS.) I am leaving soon for a long fishing trip and won't be back until Monday before I can mess with my Mac gain. I just ordered a new PRAM battery from OWC (very good checkout system and very REASONABLE shipping.)
That was the first time I had ever changed out anything more than RAM and I might have messed something up, although I can't imagine what. I almost postive the power supply I had in it originally was bad. With the new one, it fired right up and worked fine for about 5 minutes. Then, it got very sluggish and would barely download from the net and barely even do things like move the mouse and close windows. Then, the sleeping started. I don't know if was actually "sleeping" because it was almost violent, with loud noises going to sleep and then waking up, after about 5-10 seconds. The mysterious thing is, it never chimed in the 3 times it was started, although I am positive the connected speakers were turned up.
I don't think the problem is the new power supply, as it kicks it right off. It has a USB 2/FW PCI card installed, but it never caused a problem with the first power supply.
Well, the library woman is shutting me down in 5 minutes to close up.
Thanks for the help.
That was the first time I had ever changed out anything more than RAM and I might have messed something up, although I can't imagine what. I almost postive the power supply I had in it originally was bad. With the new one, it fired right up and worked fine for about 5 minutes. Then, it got very sluggish and would barely download from the net and barely even do things like move the mouse and close windows. Then, the sleeping started. I don't know if was actually "sleeping" because it was almost violent, with loud noises going to sleep and then waking up, after about 5-10 seconds. The mysterious thing is, it never chimed in the 3 times it was started, although I am positive the connected speakers were turned up.
I don't think the problem is the new power supply, as it kicks it right off. It has a USB 2/FW PCI card installed, but it never caused a problem with the first power supply.
Well, the library woman is shutting me down in 5 minutes to close up.
Thanks for the help.