Overheating ibooks?
Hi All! Doing some more troubleshooting here. Just wondering if anyone who has an iBook finds it overheats a lot. I have the last of the G3 iBooks (900) and find that after about 2 hours without the power adapter in she gets hot, the fan cuts in and then the whole thing freezes. Unless I'm ripping a CD with iTunes, then it crashes before you get to the end of the CD. When the AC adapter is plugged in, the time halves. You have to leave the iBook for about 1/2 an hour before switching it on, otherwise the fan goes ballistic and it gets stuck on the Apple at the start. I have already had the motherboard changed once (the video problem), and I'm hoping its not another one. The hard drive has been changed from the original 60Gig to a 30Gig. Wondering if that may be contributing? Anybody else had this problem? Seeya Rod!
Re: Overheating ibooks?
On 06/05/2004, at 2:29 PM, Rod wrote: Doing some more troubleshooting here. Just wondering if anyone who has an iBook finds it overheats a lot. I have the last of the G3 iBooks (900) and find that after about 2 hours without the power adapter in she gets hot, the fan cuts in and then the whole thing freezes. Unless I'm ripping a CD with iTunes, then it crashes before you get to the end of the CD. When the AC adapter is plugged in, the time halves. You have to leave the iBook for about 1/2 an hour before switching it on, otherwise the fan goes ballistic and it gets stuck on the Apple at the start. I have already had the motherboard changed once (the video problem), and I'm hoping its not another one. The hard drive has been changed from the original 60Gig to a 30Gig. Wondering if that may be contributing? Anybody else had this problem? I own an 14 iBook 700MHz G3 which will be two years old in a couple of weeks (and which will be replaced in a couple of days by a new 12 iBook G4 which has shipped from the Apple factory as a BTO model). My G3 logic board was recently replaced under extended warranty and, in any event, would have been covered under the iBook logic board repair extension program as the iBook fell within the requisite serial number range. The fan has never come back on since the replacement board was installed (although the temperature has been relatively cool since February). These were the type of symptoms I experienced in the weeks before the video failure which necessitated the logic board replacement. My machine ran really hot ... particularly noticeable under the left palm rest. The fan was on a hell of a lot ... more so than ever before (it was only ever on when I was living in a caravan last year and the external temperature was 36 degrees or more and probably 46 degrees in the van). The machine would lock up or, alternatively, I would get the 'grey screen of death' which is also known as a kernel panic. I fear you may be heading for another logic board replacement ... I notice that the iBook logic board repair extension program has been extended to include the 900MHz iBooks and is OFFICIALLY available for iBooks with serial numbers in the following range(s): UV220XX to UV342XX iBooks with the serial numbers listed above may be referred to as: •iBook (16 VRAM) • iBook (14.1 LCD 16 VRAM) • iBook (Opaque 16 VRAM) • iBook (32 VRAM) • iBook (14.1 LCD 32 VRAM) • iBook (800MHz 32 VRAM) • iBook (900MHz 32 VRAM) • iBook (14.1 LCD 900MHz 32 VRAM) Does your iBook fall within this range? This is one of the reasons why I'm getting rid of the G3 iBook (as a Flexirent equipment upgrade) ... I just hope they've got the problem sorted on the G4 iBooks. Apart from this particular glitch, the iBook is a great little machine. Good luck. --- Richard Kay Fremantle Western Australia
Re: Overheating ibooks?
At school when we were setting up the laptops we had them on carpet, not the softy sinky stuff cloning each other, and we had a few turn-off and complain about the heat. Mind you these are copying the whole HD to another computer some for up to 5hours at a time. No other problems apart from that.. ;) - Original Message - From: Richard Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 3:56 PM Subject: Re: Overheating ibooks? On 06/05/2004, at 2:29 PM, Rod wrote: Doing some more troubleshooting here. Just wondering if anyone who has an iBook finds it overheats a lot. I have the last of the G3 iBooks (900) and find that after about 2 hours without the power adapter in she gets hot, the fan cuts in and then the whole thing freezes. Unless I'm ripping a CD with iTunes, then it crashes before you get to the end of the CD. When the AC adapter is plugged in, the time halves. You have to leave the iBook for about 1/2 an hour before switching it on, otherwise the fan goes ballistic and it gets stuck on the Apple at the start. I have already had the motherboard changed once (the video problem), and I'm hoping its not another one. The hard drive has been changed from the original 60Gig to a 30Gig. Wondering if that may be contributing? Anybody else had this problem? I own an 14 iBook 700MHz G3 which will be two years old in a couple of weeks (and which will be replaced in a couple of days by a new 12 iBook G4 which has shipped from the Apple factory as a BTO model). My G3 logic board was recently replaced under extended warranty and, in any event, would have been covered under the iBook logic board repair extension program as the iBook fell within the requisite serial number range. The fan has never come back on since the replacement board was installed (although the temperature has been relatively cool since February). These were the type of symptoms I experienced in the weeks before the video failure which necessitated the logic board replacement. My machine ran really hot ... particularly noticeable under the left palm rest. The fan was on a hell of a lot ... more so than ever before (it was only ever on when I was living in a caravan last year and the external temperature was 36 degrees or more and probably 46 degrees in the van). The machine would lock up or, alternatively, I would get the 'grey screen of death' which is also known as a kernel panic. I fear you may be heading for another logic board replacement ... I notice that the iBook logic board repair extension program has been extended to include the 900MHz iBooks and is OFFICIALLY available for iBooks with serial numbers in the following range(s): UV220XX to UV342XX iBooks with the serial numbers listed above may be referred to as: • iBook (16 VRAM) • iBook (14.1 LCD 16 VRAM) • iBook (Opaque 16 VRAM) • iBook (32 VRAM) • iBook (14.1 LCD 32 VRAM) • iBook (800MHz 32 VRAM) • iBook (900MHz 32 VRAM) • iBook (14.1 LCD 900MHz 32 VRAM) Does your iBook fall within this range? This is one of the reasons why I'm getting rid of the G3 iBook (as a Flexirent equipment upgrade) ... I just hope they've got the problem sorted on the G4 iBooks. Apart from this particular glitch, the iBook is a great little machine. Good luck. --- Richard Kay Fremantle Western Australia -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
