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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