[P1] shutdown when opening lid

[Michael Elliott]

I believe that the other replies might be missing the point...that your 
ibook IS on when you open it the first inch, but then it's off.

This is a classic symptom of a common problem on the G3 iBook Dual USB 
(Ice Books).  The video cable is being damaged by the hinge.  If this 
is the case in your computer, the computer is not actually off...just 
the screen goes blank.  You MIGHT be able to still see the screen 
contents with the right lighting, in that case. Another thing you could 
do would be to close the 'book again, and see if it goes back to sleep 
(pulsating light indicating sleep), or you could hit the power button, 
which would bring up the "really shut down...?" dialog, and then hit 
?enter or maybe it's the power button again, which would tell the 
machine to shutdown.

Or I could just be wrong :-)

If those happen, you can send it back to Apple for repair.


On Jan 19, 2004, at 6:48 PM, gwallace wrote:

> For the past two days, my G4 iBook has been doing something strange:  
> when it is asleep with the lid closed and I open the lid, it briefly 
> turns on--when the lid is open an inch or so--but as I open the lid 
> fully, the screen goes black and I cannot wake it up or even restart 
> unless I plug it in, wait a little while, and then do the 
> apple-control-power switch restart.  When it reboots, there is a 
> message that the date and time is incorrect (set to 1969).
>
> I backed up all my data and then began to experiment with opening and 
> closing the lid, and I hear a slight crackling noise as the lid opens 
> more than an inch or so--as the screen blackens.  And the last thing I 
> noticed was that as I went to close the lid, a brief flash of light 
> just to the left of the power switch, between the keyboard and the 
> hinge. As it flashed, it crackled, and the computer shut itself 
> off--the first time that it shut off as I closed the lid.
>
> This computer belongs to the school at which I work, so I will 
> definitely talk to the tech person there, but does anyone know what 
> might be going on?
> -----------------------
> Gina Wallace
> Topsham, Maine
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>
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