> > I wonder if the sleep magnet was dislodged (its glued to the > > palmrest) into somewhere bad. > > Excellent point! I've found sleep magnets in 500-900 MHz iBooks everywhere > but where Apple glued them at the factory. And in many cases the iBooks were > acting very strangely indeed. That glue wasn't very sticky to begin with, and > a sharp jolt such as the 10-inch fall could have dislodged the sleep magnet > from its position just below the lower right edge of the keyboard opening > under the palm rest. >
Thanks for the suggestions, all! None of the various software resets have worked. I was actually thinking about taking it in to the office tomorrow and starting my desktop machine in target hard-drive mode and see if that boots the 'book up. (I could do it on the machine that I'm typing this on, but, frankly, I don't have to crawl under the desk to get at the FW ports on the office machine, and I'm lazy!) If that doesn't work, then it looks like I'm in for a long teardown session, which probably means that I'll leave it 'til next weekend at the earliest. I looked at MacFixit's guide to replacing an iBook's hard drive for teardown instructions and it looks like, in order to get at the underside of the palm rest, I have to go in through the bottom of the machine and work my way up... ...Somehow, that seems like going in through the navel to perform oral surgery, but I don't see any other way in. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
