Hardware of software problem on iBook G3?
Hello,
I have an iBook (G3/800, 12", DVD/CDRW) and it started to behave very
strange yesterday. I put it to sleep and take it with me (in a
Kensington's notebook backpack), but there was no nescessity to use it.
I came back, put it on a desk and problems showed up - it made some
sounds like usually when waking up and then nothing - blank screen, no
reaction for mouse, keyboard, so on.
I rebooted it (command+control+power) and MAC OS X booted also without
anything on screen. I know it was OS X because when harddrive was no
longer working I pressed "power" and then enter and computer turned off
after some seconds. Then after couple of reboots friendly OpenFirmware
screen showed up and I was able to boot linux.
Now I don't know if it is hardware or software problem. My first
impression was it is strictly hardware (motherboard?), but then I
started thinking - why is OS X starting (linux is my default os)?
Today the same happened. I cannot replicate procedure to finally solve
problem, but the problem occurs when I take the computer with me when I
go to university. Maybe some shock problems (but I use special
Kensington notebook backpack)?
I would really appreciate if some of you could say anything more - if
this is motherboard problem I have 9 days of warranty for it (it was
replaced last year in June 2003), if it is anything other piece of
hardware that probably means a lot of money to spend (Apple computers
are very expensive in my country - the cheapes iBook G4 1GHz is 1600$
which is american price for the cheapest PowerBook G4 1,33GHz) -
warranty expired.
I am using Debian SID with 2.6.6 kernel from Debian, self-compiled with
Cedric's patch for therm_adm103x driver (I compiled this kernel on
Wednesday 9th of July, and my problems started yesterday - maybe they
are related?).
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Best regards,
Łukasz Studziński
Poland
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