[P1] iBook Freaking Out!?

[Barry Lyden]

Wow. Deja Vu.

I have a slightly older ibook 700mhz. I bought it in January 2003. It began
exhibiting pretty much these exact same symptoms, starting slowly and
working it way up to the freezing, flickering, and finally no screen
whatsoever. I finally took it into the Apple Store and they shipped it off
to the repair center. Got it back 3 days ago and everything works fine.
Apparently, they replaced the logic board.

Barry



On 8/13/03 8:59 PM, "Joe Sporleder" <joe at beloit-kansas.com> 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.
> 
> 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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