Powerbook G4 IDE controller problem?

I've not had that experience, but I understand that the IDE controller is on the logciboard.

Assuming you're right and it's a solder issue, I imagine the stove fix might work. The one where you put the logic board in the oven for a while so the solder re-runs.

But I am no expert so this is just wild speculation on my part.

 

You have a little "bad solder" obssesion, don't you? [joke]

To me it doesn't look like solder problem. Machine would freeze, KP i.e. hard crash. It looks like just bad/dying HDD. IDE or SATA controller failure almost never happens (maybe excluding some G3 B&W cases).

 

second 666s post, supporting these things for years (hundreds probably sneaking up on thousands), i've never seen the controller be the fault, the drive is on the way out even if the diagnostics/smart say otherwise. if it was the controller, the system would not boot as it's part of the logic board. in the PC world it would be like a mobo with a bad north/south bridge chip. dead.

nothing like the smell of baking powerbooks in the morning...