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You Need to Replace Your Logic BoardMay 18, 2010 - 3:30pm
ibook in bkk asks: QuestionAPPLE MAINBOARD MALFUNCTIONS AFTER ONE AND A HALF YEARS OF GENTLE USE. ATARI XE THAT HASN’T BEEN TURNED ON IN TEN YEARS WORKS FINE. HERE’S THE DEAL Type one key on the laptop keyboard, then type one key on the USB keyboard What I want to do is make the laptop completly ignore the laptop keyboard. Note: physically removing the physical keyboard does not work. Any ideas anybody? I guess what I want to to is something like you can do in the system preferences where you can get the laptop to ignore the trackpad when a USB mouse is attached. EXTRA INFO: My iBook is pretty much under control now, but when it malfunctions it always trys to revert to the iBook keyboard (it taps away on on the deleted keys). If I run the Apple Hardware Test CD when the computer is malfunctioning then a VIDEO RAM ERROR will come up with the error code 2ATI/2/4: 113-xxxxx-142 If I run the Apple Hardware Test CD when the computer is NOT malfunctioning then no error code will come up. The authorised Apple Repair Guy said “you need to replace your logic board, but a new logic board costs almost as much as a new Macbook, so you may as well by a Macbook”. Please do not reply to this post with “ummm, you need to replace your logic board”. AnswerI didn’t edit the formatting or content of this Question in any way. I promise. Anyway, sadly, you need a new MLB. It seems something, somewhere, has shorted out or died, and short of spending a lot of time with a soldering iron and a voltmeter, there’s no real “fixing” it. So, I know you don’t want to hear it, but “ummm, you need to replace your logic board.” I want to take a moment, however, to address the survivor’s fallacy. Sure, your Atari XE still works. But your header implies that just because one specific unit survived all these years, that any and all others should too. It doesn’t work that way. I can assure you that there’s hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Atari XEs that don’t work at all today. In fact, I’m willing to be that quite a few people with dead Atari XEs in 1984 were throwing a fit that their 10 year old Pong paddles still worked. About JC |
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