Apple Powerbook G4 Fw800 Users Manual

2015-02-02

• PowerBook G4 (15-inch FW800)
  • Take Apart
    • General Information
      • Overview
      • New Procedures
      • Important Note
      • Tools
      • Serial Number Location
    • Foot
    • Battery
    • Memory Door and Memory Cards
    • AirPort Extreme Card
    • Top Case
    • Keyboard
    • Backup Battery
    • Optical Drive
    • Hard Drive
    • Modem
    • Bluetooth
    • Left Blower
    • Ambient Light Sensor Boards
    • Logic Board
    • Right Blower
    • Right USB Board
    • Speakers
    • PC Card Cage
    • AirPort Extreme Slot & Flex Cable
    • Display Panel Assembly
    • Heatsink and Blowers Assembly
    • Sound/DC-In Board
    • Bottom Case Assembly
  • Troubleshooting
    • General Information
      • Wire and Flex Cables
      • Hardware Troubleshooting Tools and Tips
        • Apple Hardware Test 2.0.6 (AHT)
        • Apple Service Diagnostic (ASD)
        • Resetting the Power Manager Unit (PMU)
        • Power-on pads on logic board
        • PMU Reset pads on logic board
        • Caps lock LED power check
      • Software Troubleshooting Tips and Tools
        • Mac OS X only
        • Login window and account
        • Customer forgot password
        • Safe Mode
    • Hardware Symptom Charts
      • How to Use the Symptom Charts
      • Power Adapter Note
      • Startup
        • The computer will not power on (no blower movement, hard drive spin up and display is not lit)
        • Memory error message “The built-in memory test has detected an error” appears on the screen
        • Blue screen appears (a spinning disc cursor may also be visible), Prohibitory Sign appears, Resta...
        • Flashing question mark appears on the screen
        • Computer begins to power up, the blowers and hard drive are spinning, pressing caps lock key and ...
        • System shuts down intermittently
        • System shuts down almost immediately after startup
        • Application Quits, Kernel panic or other booting problems
      • Error Beeps
        • Computer beeps once at startup
        • Computer beeps twice at startup
        • Computer beeps three times at startup
        • Computer beeps four times at startup
      • AirPort Extreme Card
        • AirPort Extreme Card not recognized
        • AirPort connection is slow
      • Battery
        • Battery will not eject
        • The battery won't charge
      • Bluetooth
        • Bluetooth system preferences does not show up under Hardware system preferences
        • Bluetooth Card not recognized by other devices
      • Display
        • Display latch not working
        • When displaying a single color over the screen area, the LCD panel shows one or more pixels that ...
      • Hard Drive
        • Internal hard drive will not initialize:
      • Keyboard
        • No response from any key on keyboard
        • No keyboard illumination
        • Half keyboard is illuminated.
      • Microphone
        • The microphone is not working
      • Modem
        • No modem dial tone
        • Modem does not respond (can hear dial tone)
      • Optical Drive
        • The optical drive does not accept CD or DVD disc (mechanical failure)
        • The disc icon does not show up on desktop, or a dialog box appears to initialize disc, when inser...
        • Difficulty writing to optical media
      • PC Card
        • PC Card will not insert into the PC Card slot
        • PC Card does not mount to the desktop
      • Ports
        • A USB port is not recognizing devices
        • A USB device not recognized by computer
        • A FireWire port is not recognizing devices
      • Sound
        • No sound heard and the Speakers section of the Sound system preference pane indicates that an ext...
        • No sound from speaker(s)
        • Distorted sound from speakers
      • Trackpad
        • The cursor does not move when you are using trackpad
        • The cursor intermittently does not move or moves erratically
      • Video
        • No display, or dim display, but computer appears to operate correctly
        • Computer appears to work, but no video on external device connected to the TV out port (S-video o...
        • No video on an external VGA device connected to the external monitor (DVI) port
      • Misc. Symptoms
        • The Date and Time settings reset all the time
        • Feet came off the bottom case
        • Sleep LED does not come on when lid is closed