September 19, 2006 09:46
Let's face it. The last G3 PowerBook (Pismo) was announced on February 16, 2000. So you are looking at a six year old PowerBook. Look on eBay or Craig's list and you will find the going prices for such a laptop have fallen to less than 10% of what you paid back in 2000.
You might consider giving up on it for a number of reasons. One reason you perhaps have not explored is that in salt air environments, electronics motherboards do not last as long as they do in your home. This may or may not be part of your issue.
One of the simplest thing for you to try to sort out the possibilities is to buy an external Firewire drive, or better yet a USB drive and keep running Pismo on that external drive. Even if you end up scrapping the Pismo, the USB drive will be useful for your next MacBook....(grin)....
The newer MacBooks have head protection circuitry that protects the drive from damage when the laptop is knocked onto the floor. There is no reasonable ( ie cheap and convenient to use) shockproofing that protects the drive from the accelerations you get from crashing along as your boat falls off heavy swells.
Somehow the Stan Honey class of Volvo 70 navigators of the world keep their computers going in spite of such violence of the seas to the boat, so be hopeful.
You might consider giving up on it for a number of reasons. One reason you perhaps have not explored is that in salt air environments, electronics motherboards do not last as long as they do in your home. This may or may not be part of your issue.
One of the simplest thing for you to try to sort out the possibilities is to buy an external Firewire drive, or better yet a USB drive and keep running Pismo on that external drive. Even if you end up scrapping the Pismo, the USB drive will be useful for your next MacBook....(grin)....
The newer MacBooks have head protection circuitry that protects the drive from damage when the laptop is knocked onto the floor. There is no reasonable ( ie cheap and convenient to use) shockproofing that protects the drive from the accelerations you get from crashing along as your boat falls off heavy swells.
Somehow the Stan Honey class of Volvo 70 navigators of the world keep their computers going in spite of such violence of the seas to the boat, so be hopeful.