I'm afraid I've no experience with the internals, so I couldn't say. My thought that it's a connector problem is based on the symptoms, which closely parallel what often happens with other audible electronics. Another advantage to the iMic, I should point out, is a much improved sound quality, offering 48.0 khz against the iBook's 44.1 khz. Tony On 5-May-06, at 8:31 AM, NM. wrote: > > Sounds like a loose physical connection of some sort, but rather than > go through the risky hassle of disassembling the iBook, you could > always replace the sound inexpensively with a Griffin iMic (http:// > www.griffintechnology.com/products/imic2/). I've used it for a while > now, and it's great! > > Tony > > Thanks for the suggestion, I'll keep it in mind. > Where are the sound connector thingies? Are they hard to access? > > _nickm > > _______________________________________________ > iBook mailing list > iBook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 --- iBook G4/1.42GHz/1GB/OSX.4.6 G4 MDD/1.25GHz/1.5GB/OSX.3.9 http://music.download.com/braincellmusic ----- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/ibook/attachments/20060505/7b1250fb/attachment.html