[P1] iBook Freaking Out!?

[bill traynor]

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 21:59, Joe Sporleder wrote:
> I have a new iBook. It is one of the 900mhz models, 12.1" screen, combo 
> drive, 40GB drive, 640MB or RAM and so on. I bought it new from my 
> local Apple dealer about 3 months ago. It has had some trouble waking 
> up on occasion, i.e., the keyboard would respond, and I could here the 
> HD and optical drive working, but the screen would stay black. It 
> happened less than 25% of the time, so I didn't worry to much about it, 
> figuring if it got worse, I'd reset the Power Manager and the PRAM.

Joe, return it to the Apple dealer as you're still within your 12 month
warranty period.  Also, go buy the extended apple care warranty
immediately!  As for your problem, it sounds familiar, see:

http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?50@@.3bbeca9e

http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?50@86.ZfYwa3JVkbm.5@.3bb8aa5f/2

http://pub8.ezboard.com/ftheibookuserboardtheibookforum.showMessage?topicID=296.topic

Did I mention you should go buy the extended warranty today!

> 
> However, it has started a new problem just today. The screen would 
> freeze, no response from the trackpad or button, even the menu bar 
> clock would stop completely, just like a hard freeze from MacOS 9 days. 
> Then the screen would start to flicker out, blacking out for a few 
> seconds, then back on. I'm not for certain, it could be my imagination, 
> but the flickering/blacking out seemed worse when I jostled the iBook a 
> bit. Could this be the famous pinched LCD wire problem i hear about 
> with some of the iBooks? It would let me use the control-apple-power 
> button sequence to reboot, and that worked for a bit, but then the last 
> 3 times, the screen would not come up at all.
> 
> However, I was able to boot into Target disk mode and make a more 
> recent backup, over FireWire to my G4, of my data in case I have to 
> send it in for repair. In fact, I even booted off of it in FireWire 
> disk mode. Actually, that is amazing how I can boot my G4 off of the 
> MacOS 10.2.6 that is on my iBook.
> 
> So, anyone else experienced this sort of problem with their iBook?
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
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