Re: Hardware of software problem on iBook G3?
On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 00:01, Łukasz Studziński wrote:
> 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 had your problem some day ago and I found the solution on this page:
http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/faq/
Bye
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