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Wednesday, 25 June 2003
The insomniac and the PowerBook that wouldn't wake up ::
I was awakened at 2 am by some loud and apparently drunk young women talking loudly outside my apartment windows. I couldn’t get back to sleep, so I went to the computer. Unfortunately it didn’t want to wake up, or even boot after what should have been a hard reset. I grumbled to myself that the computer was pulling a Rip Van Winkle on me, as if to make up for my not getting any sleep. I somehow stayed awake, played keyboards, did some reading... At 6 am, I called a hardware geek friend on the East Coast. He told me it sounded like the Power Management Unit (PMU) needed to be reset. I agreed, remembering that a couple of my previous PowerBooks had such a button and had needed it pushed on occasion. I couldn’t find any such button on my PB G4, however. I went into work early. Eventually 9 am rolled around and the repair department at work opened. I presented my baby to a woman who seemed to be restraining a smile for some reason. She disappeared around a corner for 30 seconds and returned to show me my PowerBook booting. I felt really glad that at 6 am, I hadn’t gone digging around for a Torx screwdriver with which to perform exploratory surgery. ...