I have an ageing iBook, "IceBook", I guess. It has an 9.2 partition, and runs 10.4. Its screen went weird one day and then it would not start. Hooking it upm to another screen didn’t work. After much muddlig around with magic gestures (trying to get it into Target mode didn’t work). It came to life for a short while, then the picture dissolved and it died. New round with muddling around, it sprang to life again when I finally got it to boot off a generic 10.3 cd. Got the option for restarting off the 10.4 partition. It ran fine for awhlie, but when I tried to move it, the screen got all stripey and weird, and pushing various places on it made it weirder. Now it won’t even budge from a CD. It emits a BONG, the CD makes some noise, but thats all. Once got it to make a gray screen, but now its just dead. Have tried power on and option, but only got stripey unredable screen. Have tried ctrl-cmnd-power countless times, have held power on until it said like "toooot" and the indicator light on the front flashed 5 times or so. As it is, the battery has power, but the light on the front is not lit at all. No noise from the HD. Opening up again and restarting it only makes it emit noise from the CD unit, not anything else excpet the BONG. What do you think? If the HD was dead, it should still boot off a CD. Pressing "C" doesen’t do a thing now. I wonder if something is loose inside it. Is this an easy model to open up (3 TORX screws on the bottom) or is it just recycling material? Peter, Oslo, Norway
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