[iBook] Re: video crapped out

[Bill Raffensperger]

I ordered it Tuesday night, May 16, it showed up this morning  
(Thursday, May 18) before 11.
Here's the out of box experience. Assistance by Lilly and Tinker.

http://homepage.mac.com/dowhatyoulike/b/MacBook.mov

My old iBook was cloned to my firewire drive, and I hooked the Maxtor  
up to the MacBook as instructed by the set up assistant. It copied  
all my stuff over, but all my old mail didn't seem to copy over  
right. Guess I'll try to manually restore it.

I got a lot of this:

> The message from ibook-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com  
> concerning “iBook Digest, Vol 21, Issue 6” has not been downloaded  
> from the server. You need to take this account online in order to  
> download it.

Of course I was online, the messages just weren't there.

It's great to be portable again after being tethered to an old Mac  
for almost 6 weeks.



On Apr 17, 2006, at 11:59 PM, Bill Raffensperger wrote:
> My iBook 600 (Dec 2001) has been a great little machine. But about  
> 10 days ago I had a crash where the cursor and the clock froze.  
> None of the key combos worked, I had to hold down the power key to  
> shut it off, and upon reboot, there was no video. I have been using  
> it in target disk mode plugged into a 400MHz iMac since then. You  
> know, hold down the option key, and boot the iMac from the iBook.  
> It's kind of surreal, it's my computer, I can do everything I used  
> to do, but I am tethered to this iMac and my iBook just sits there,  
> out of the way, forlorn on it's CoolPad, lid open, dead screen. I  
> really miss being portable. I have debated getting it fixed, but  
> it's almost four and a half years old. Been thinking about a 12  
> inch PowerBook G4.
>
> I reset the power manager. I even took out the ram, the airport  
> card, and the battery, then pressed the reset button for 5 seconds.  
> Put just the battery back for reboot. Nothing. Zapped the p-ram.  
> Nothing. I guess the video card is fried. Anyone familiar with this  
> issue? Any other good ideas? It's sad. These things should last  
> longer than this.



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