[Ti] :o(((

[Kynan Shook]

I agree that it's probably the best option now to just send it in to 
Apple; for under $400, they'll repair anything (except a display on a 
GigE or original PBG4, as those displays are in extremely short 
supply...  Also, there are exceptions for abuse (dropping, spills, 
etc.)).

As for your tech support, well, they're full of crap.  You can run a 
PowerBook with no fan installed with zero problems.  Well, at least for 
the first minute or two.  After that, it'll likely crash, and it'll 
turn itself off once it gets too hot, possibly damaging some components 
along the way, but it'll at least turn on.  It's probably just a dead 
logic board of some sort.
I'm gonna guess that either your tech support is full of PC boys that 
are used to wintel laptops that get so hot that the fan has to be 
running all the time, or they are seeing the fan jitter right when 
pressing the power button; this is normal behavior, but I could see 
somebody mistaking it for indicating that the fan is dead.

Colin Buttimer <c.buttimer at mdx.ac.uk> writes:
>> Anyway, even if I wanted to overclock it, I couldn't... it just died 
>> in
>> my hands...
>> So anyone knows what to do when the Ti refuses to turn on (No "return 
>> it
>> to Apple" please. I hit the "start" button, but NOTHING at all 
>> happens...)
> I don't think you have a choice. This just happened to a colleague's 
> Tibook
> 500. Out of the blue it froze and refused to reboot. Completely dead. 
> It's
> going off to Apple - our tech support says that the cooling system has 
> died
> and as a result the machine will not turn on again until it's 
> functional.