New Battery + New Hard Drive = Blue Screen of Death.

The series of events:
1. Powerbook acts slow, but nothing too frustrating. Until its starts to randomly quit when browsing the internet regardless of browser being used; however, I suffer through a few weeks with this issue.
2. Battery ceases to function one day after warranty ends, Apple Genius feels my pain but still charges for the new battery. I also inquire about the internet browsing issue and he runs some test and concludes that my airport card is failing. I choose to not replace the airport card at that time.
3. I purchase a time capsule and complete the initial backup; however, all further backups fail.
4. I purchase a macbook pro.
5. The day after purchasing the macbook pro, and before I had sufficient time to transfer all needed files from either the powerbook or the time capsule, the powerbook enters into the blue screen of death. The time capsule refuses to recognize the macbook pro as I desperately attempt to save at least a portion of my files.
6. I visit the apple store dragging a small suitcase behind me which holds the powerbook, the macbook pro, and the time capsule. My appointment began at 10:00am. At 8:00pm I left the Apple Store (the geniuses were glad to see me go, 5 of them were required to help me). Upon leaving, all files from the time capsule had been transferred to the macbook pro (at one point the genius said to me "there's a 50/50 chance this will work, if it doesn't you will lose everything" I almost cried) and the powerbook was given the definite diagnosis of a severely corrupt hard drive with the recommendation to replace it. (Sidenote: A different genius tested the airport on the powerbook and said its perfect and does not need to be replaced.)
7. Hard drive replaced in powerbook.
8. Powerbook used successfully to connect to macbook pro and watch a movie on the powerbook with the file based on the macbook pro.
9. Attempted to use powerbook again for the same task. Powerbook connected to macbook pro but wouldn't show any files. I disconnected the two and tried again, this time powerbook would not connect at all...just kept saying "connecting." Attempted to restart powerbook and was greeted with the blue screen of death.
The battery in the powerbook has barely 10 cycles. The new hard drive has nothing on it except what was loaded with leopard and firefox (there is absolutely no user-created content other than the firefox cache which only loaded the welcome page so I could confirm I was connected to the internet). I have not connected it to the time capsule.
I would really like it if the powerbook worked again. Is there a deeper problem with it since it barely worked after putting a new hard drive in? Is there any chance of hope for renewed life?

Hi
System Specs
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
Abit NF7 2.0
300 watt power supply, Generic Case
Geforce FX 5600AGP 8X 256MB
SB Audigy 2 Platinum
PCI SLot fan
Case fan
80gb master, 60gb slave Western Digital hard dri'ves
Lite on dvd-rom
Lite on CD-rW
Windows XP Home Edition Sp2
Viewsonic VX-900-2 Monitor
I think that's all you need correct. The problem occurs when i disconnect the headphones from the jack, it could be after listening to music, or it could be when there idel, really doesn't matter it seems, unplug them to go back to regular speakers, and bam reboot
please help on this..
Drivers are latest for each item.
Software is up to date as it can be.
Message Edited by bikeman on 04-20-2005 08:4 PM

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