Where's the BlueTooth on my PB?

[Thussy]

6-Month old 15" 1.5ghz G4 PowerBook.

I opened her up tonite and saw a squigly through the bluetooth icon. When i click on it it says BlueTooth not available.

Any suggestions? Has my PowerBook done something wrong 😱 . It would be the first time 🙁

 

[Bear]

I presume you opened it up from sleep mode?

Try rebooting. It's happened to a few people, and rebooting seems to fix it.

And next time some hardware goes offline, try rebooting before asking.

 

[Thussy]

I did try rebooting a few times before posting. Still no luck.

 

[Bear]

I did try rebooting a few times before posting. Still no luck.

With or without a powercycle?

 

[Thussy]

Sorry if this sounds lame, but what's a PowerCycle?

 

[JeDiBoYTJ]

common problem with Powerbooks... you need to zap the PRAM... Reboot the computer and after you hear the chime hit "Command(Apple Key) + Option(Alt Key) + P + R" you should hear a second chime, computer should boot normally, with bluetooth 🙂

 

[gernb]

Power down. take the battery out. wait 30 seconds. put the battery back in and reboot. BT should be back in action.

 

[Fahd]

Sorry to bump this, but Im having the same problem and have tried all this and more! 🙁

Any other ideas?