[iBook] Boot without keyboard?

[Lentz]

  Unfortunately I can't boot at all, even with the keyboard plugged in.

  I spilled some soda on it back in October. I turned it off right away, wiped up all I could, and let it dry for a day. It worked without any problems until Christmas day when I found it with the drive light and the caps and numeric lock lights on and the machine was dead.

  I've stripped the thing down to the motherboard and can't find a problem. Everything looks good and with the exception of a couple drops of stuff on the plastic casings of a couple components, none of the soda appears to have even touched the motherboard.

  The keyboard got a lot of it though and I'm just wondering if that could be my problem.



-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Elliott <michaelelliott at mac.com>
Sent: Jan 2, 2005 11:06 PM
To: 
	"A place to discuss Apple's iBook computers." <ibook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>, 
	Lentz <llentz88 at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [iBook] Boot without keyboard?

Here would be a way to find out:  Boot from the Mac OS X Install CD by 
holding the C key.  If you can't boot from it, try plugging in a USB 
keyboard and pressing C from there.

Michael


On Jan 02, 2005, at 5:48 PM, Lentz wrote:

>
>   Will the G4 iBook boot with the keyboard disconnected?
>
>   Is it possible that a short or other failure in the keyboard could 
> keep the iBook from booting?
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