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If you've experienced hard drive failure with a 15' PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz, please drop us a line, including a information the drive brand.

#15 mac powerbook g4 how to#

Apple Engineering believes this to simply be coincidence somehow I doubt that five sequential serial numbered laptops all just coincidentally had hard drive failures.' OWCs step-by-step video of how to install a hard drive or SSD in the Apple PowerBook G4 Aluminum 15-inch with Model ID: PowerBook5,2, PowerBook5,4, PowerBoo. 'I've got an open case with Apple Customer Relations for this issue, and I'm still waiting for some sort of meaningful resolution beyond simply replacing the hard drive. These five were all purchased in July 2005. Five of the failures have sequential serial numbers.

#15 mac powerbook g4 serial numbers#

'All machines were manufactured in 2005 from the same factory (Shanghai, China) as evidenced by the serial numbers W8xxxxxxxxx. The remainder occurred all during another two or three week timeframe earlier this year. Four of the 10 failures have occurred in the last 2 weeks.

Sometimes I get an error in Apple Hardware Test, sometimes it passes with no problem. The hard drives themselves simply make 'ka-chunk ka-chunk' noises. If they just boot up from scratch, the same question mark appears. The failures are all the same: if the user is working, they get a kernel panic and upon reboot, nothing. In the last year, I've lost 10 of 13 hard drives, one machine has even died twice. 'I'm having a big problem with hard drive failures in 15' PowerBook G4s, 1.67 GHz models.

Now MacFixIt reader Jason Westlake reports on widespread failure of 15' PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz hard drives within his organization. Cursory examination of reader reports also reveals this model as one of the most prone to drive failure. In-house both of our 12' PowerBook G4s' hard drives have failed, necessitating a tedious replacement process. Mac portable hard drive failure is hardly a new issue, but some models seem to be more prone to drive failure, due to specific hard drives used and possibly production run dates.