[P1] help! Dead ibook (700MHz - CDROM)

[Joost van de Griek]

On 2003-03-12 06:24, "Brian Hugh Warren" <stationwagon at watchtan.com> wrote:

> I tried booting from a CD - it didn't work. I tried with a few different CDs -
> the only one that worked (and it only worked once, i tried it more than once)
> was the hardware test cd.

And did you run the hardware tests?

>> I would try to Zap the PRAM.
>
> Tried it. I let it "bong" about 7 or 8 times - for good measure. :)

Can you boot into Open Firmware? Hold down Command+O+F at startup. If you
get to the Open Firmware prompt, type

reset-vram<return>
reset-all<return>
reboot<return>

That does a better job of wiping the non-volatile RAM.

>> Now, if that doesn't work, you need to do a Power Manager reset.   On my 600
>> Mhz iBook this reset button is a tiny dot over the headphone jack.  I don't
>> know if they moved it on your model.
>
> can't find it. It's not above the headphone jack. Maybe it doesn't exist on my
> model?

It doesn't. It was only on the first two revisions of the white iBook.  To
reset the Power Manager, refer to these instructions:
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449#faq6>

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