Help! I think I killed my PowerBook...

Yesterday I posted about my computer going on the fritz, but when I got home everything was fine. Well, things went from bad to worse today. Now my computer won't even start up. When I press the power button, I heard the hard drive spinning, actually it's more like a light "grinding" sound - almost as if the fan inside is hitting something - and I get the blue screen. No icon, no startup, nothing.
I had originally thought it was a bad 1GB RAM card that I had installed a few weeks ago because I had taken it out and replaced it with my original 256 card. Things were working fine for a few hours, then it started to slow down again. I was going to reinstall my OS (I had backed up all my info to my iPod) but when I was trying to shut my computer down, it froze up. I pressed the power button for a few seconds to force it to shut down, then the blue screen thing happened. I'm not sure what to do now, I'm posting this on my wife's VAIO so thankfully I have access to help.
I'm currently running OS 10.3.3.
It's imperative that I get my PB up and running by tomorrow 8am or I am sunk! Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated.

Alec,
Well I'm not sure if you have a hardware issue. Try re-installing the 1gig of RAM and reboot to see if you can get back into the system. Usually 3 beeps during startup will alert you to defective RAM. Since you didn't report hearing them maybe the RAM is ok. The missing user login window happened to me twice. I didn't run the Apple hardware test or any other diagnostics as I orginally thought it was an issue with the USB drive I had hanging up during ejection. The second time it occured I found a file in the startup folder for a Lexmark printer (which I deleted then rebooted the system) I was using. At the time I first connected the printer I got an error message stating it's security level wasn't correct. There was a prompt for me to fix, ignore or decide later. I believe at the time I selected decide later which a subsequent message alerted me that by doing so I could encounter problems. All of this is annecdotal at best because I never definitively determined the cause of the issue. It has not reoccured again so far. If you have the opportunity try running the hardware test and post back the results.
Jrsy

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I have a yamaha motif es6 but i also have logic pro 7
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Hello
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Yes, we're so befuddled and stumped that we are willing to pay $25 by Paypal or any other method (check, money order) to the first person who provides us with a concrete solution that allows us to read this page through a Java application:
http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/subst/your-account/your-open-marketplace-items.html/104-3907538-7794313
The problem (we think) seems relatively simple: how can we pass the correct cookie to a server? We want to search our merchant web pages on amazon.com (and perform other operations, but for the purposes of this problem, just assume we want to read the above web page). We wrote a variation of a webcrawler which works fine on most web pages. However, the Amazon web pages we want to crawl (i.e., http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/subst/your-account/your-open-marketplace-items.html/104-3907538-7794313) require you to sign in first (otherwise you get redirected to http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/subst/your-account/your-won-zshop-items.html/104-0793551-2976761). So we thought that this meant we had to figure out how to get our webcrawler to login first (we implemented the Java Almanac example for accessing password-protected URLs: http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.net/Auth.html?l=rel). During the course of testing this out (the code seemed to work, though we still got redirected), we realized that the Amazon web page is not actually performing basic authentication (not asking for username/password), but instead seems (that is, seems to inexperienced us) to be looking for a cookie. We believe this because after we sign in to Amazon, we can access all our merchant web pages just fine without ever needing to log in, even if we turn off the browser (or computer). Also, if we try to access the web page after deleting all cookies, we again get redirected to the page requesting that we sign in.
So we took a look at the Amazon cookie that was created after we signed in to Amazon (printed below), and then implemented the cookie-passing code from the Java Almanac (http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.net/SendCookie.html). This seemed to have no effect:we still got redirected. We hunted around for other Cookie examples and found achase1's example from a previous forum question (http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=54&thread=375956), which seemed to add a few HTTPUrlConnection.set's, but this also had no effect--our Java crawler still gets redirected to the page that requests that we sign in first.
So we think that either we are somehow passing the wrong cookie information, or are just missing some critical HttpURLConnection setting or parameter.
So, if you can tell us how to read the Amazon page that seems to require a cookie, and your explanation actually works (that is, we can read the page), we will send you $25 immediately--like so many others on the forum, we're frustrated and lost and need an answer that works!
Here is the Amazon account information (naturally, this is a working dummy account on Amazon, not our actual account, in case you want to test your solution before posting it):
username: [email protected]
password: melville
Here is the cookie that is generated:
session-id
104-3907538-7794313
amazon.com/
1536
3382951936
29569409
1475475408
29568127
session-id-time
1055491200
amazon.com/
1536
3382951936
29569409
1475575408
29568127
ubid-main
430-1017936-7312154
amazon.com/
1536
2916341376
31961269
1482485408
29568127
x-main
Z3yciaQAfpzN?CPFkzeRd8z1U2lWcoap
amazon.com/
1536
2916341376
31961269
2005235408
29568127
Here is the extra-simplified version of our webcrawler, which simply tries to read (and print out) the web page:
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class PasswordReader {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
// Try to access the page
try {
     HttpURLConnection m_urlConn;
     URL url = new URL(args[0]);
// Cookie passing code
     m_urlConn=(HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
     m_urlConn.setDoOutput(true);
     m_urlConn.setDoInput(true);
     m_urlConn.setUseCaches(false);
     m_urlConn.setRequestMethod("POST");
     // optrional
     m_urlConn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent","Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; H010818)");
     m_urlConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
     m_urlConn.setRequestProperty("Cookie" , "session-id=104-3907538-7794313;session-id-time=1055491200;ubid-main=430-1017936-7312154;x-main=Z3yciaQAfpzN?CPFkzeRd8z1U2lWcoap");
     m_urlConn.connect();
// end cookie code
     BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
                    new InputStreamReader(
                    url.openStream()));
     String inputLine;
// Read and print out the web page
     while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
     System.out.println(inputLine);
     in.close();
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
} catch (IOException e) {
Thank so much to anyone who even tries to help us!! We've been poring through the Sun forums, almanacs, and sample code all week without much evident progress. You'd really be making us very, very happy.
Thank you,
Ogi Ogas
[email protected]

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