Trouble starting up Pismo - Constantly pressing Reset button

Question

I'm having some more problems with my Pismo. There are times when, after I shut down, and turn it on the next day, nothing happens. I press CommandControlPower, and that doesn't work, so I have to press the reset button on the back and hold for five seconds, before trying again, at which point the Pismo boots up.
This is certainly not normal. Does anyone have a clue as to why this is happenning?

Answer 1

If you have to replace the main logic board AND the CPU card AND hard drive, then perhaps a new Mac would be a better option. However, it seems suspect that all of those thing would go bad at the same time.
"Bad boot sector" - I'm not sure exactly what a "boot sector" is, but I would ask them how they discovered this problem. A bad sector is not a fatal problem for a hard drive, unless it happens to be in the part of the hard drive that stores directory data. Otherwise, the drive can often map out the bad sector(s) during a reformat (using "zero all data" option). At worse, you would replace the hard drive, and getting a new faster quieter bigger hard drive would improve performance. The procedure is not that hard to do yourself.
"Logic board errors" - Did they give more specific details? I haven't read too many posts here about problems with the logic board. It seems to be a reliable part.
"Clock battery is dead" - That's a minor problem. My understanding is that on a Pismo, the internal (small) battery is there so that the user can swap out the main battery while the Pismo is in sleep mode. If the main battery is never removed, I don't think you would notice if the internal battery was working or not. Even if you have to get a new battery, that should be an inexpensive part and it's easy to replace (just under the keyboard).