[P1] iBook 900mhz G3 Problems, Again!

[Gene Merritt]

On Jan 3, 2004, at 4:46 PM, Joe Sporleder wrote:

> Has anyone on this list experienced the problems with the previous 
> generation of iBooks that have been talked about on Mac news sites 
> recently? I have a 900mhz G3 iBook with 640MB of RAM, Combo Drive and 
> 40GB HD. It always seems to me that it gets a bit too hot, even by 
> iBook and PowerBook standards. The LCD Screen will start doing some 
> strange flickering and then everything will freeze completely. 
> Sometimes Panther will go into a kernel panic and talk about doing a 
> system dump, but most of the time it will not even get that far.
>
> I had to send it in after I had it about 4 months, under AppleCare, 
> same symptoms as now. According to the work order that came back with 
> it, the logic board and the hard drive were replaced. It looks like 
> I'm going to have to send it again, and it's still got 3 months or so 
> under the 1 year warranty. Fortunately this time and last time, I had 
> fairly recent backups to my G4 tower at work (thank God for Carbon 
> Copy Cloner!).
> Joe
>


Joe

I have no real answers. That's the model I have, and it just came back 
from Apple
a couple or three days ago.  Logic board and video sending unit fried. 
So far
so good. I've got things backed up on a 160GB FW. It is rather 
ridiculous...sad,
though.

Gene