[iBook] Troubled iBook

[Mary H.]

At 1:47 PM -0400 5/30/06, Kenny Feder wrote:

>My son's G4 iBook is behaving very strangely and I'm trying to figure out if
>it's more likely a hardware or a software problem. When he shuts the lid of
>his laptop it goes to sleep but when he opens the lid up, it only sometimes
>wakes up. Sometimes it refuses to wake up, other times it has turned itself
>off (and it's certainly not configured to do that). In any event, when he
>attempts to reboot, he will commonly get the dreaded folder with a question
>mark and the machine simply can't find the OS (10.4) and won't start up.

Everything here suggests to me that troubleshooting should start with 
PRAM/NVRAM/PMU reset.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449

  M