Easy is the exact opposite for this ibook. I've got one, and it's a pain to work with. I think you might have a bad video board, but since I haven't run into any problems with mine yet, I don't know what to tell you (worst i've gotten is one with a bad DC-in board and bad HDD) You'll find a manual on iFixit.com that would show you how to take it apart, but it's 7 screws, and some sweating to get the bottom clear plastic off, another bunch of screws just to get the top part off, and a painload more to even think about getting to the HDD. You'd have more luck using it as a doorstop, or stripping the paint off the bottom and top and selling the case parts as pre-stripped for someone else to mod their iBook with. Good luck (PS: If you don't want to spend the time, could you mail me the "delete and ? keys from it? I need them still.) -Pizzaboy192
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:18 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > 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/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > g-books+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words > "REMOVE ME" as the subject. > -- -Proudly Sent from a Windows PC -- 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/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g-books+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
