Diagnosis Complete

[hackmancoltaire]

Well, after a VERY demoralizing Saturday and Sunday I FINALLY completed the diagnosis of my fathers iBook G4. Seems that just before he went on vacation to Hawaii for a week his trusty iBook decided instead of sleeping when he closed it that it would instead crash and pegged the CPU and subsequently heat itself to maximum and run the fan, and hard drives full bore ALL WEEK. So when he got back it wouldn't boot without crashing. Now I had originally figured that the hard disk had become corrupted but after several attempts and repair with success and failure I decided I would replace the hard drive. Well after that showed no improvement I next moved to running all the Apple diagnosis on it. Low an behold I think the problem was that the new 1GB memory chip I got for him a few months ago failed because of the over heating. Because as soon as I removed it the whole thing worked like a charm again. :( sigh. So now I have to get him a NEW memory chip and try to get my money back for this other one that failed. What's interesting to note is that a bad memory chip (and by bad I mean working but faulty) can cause serious hard disk corruption. Don't fuck with bad RAM.

Anyhow now that I'm done with that I can finally rest. My dad will get a nice HD upgrade out of the whole deal and maybe a new version of iLife. ;)