[iBook] system freeze following sound

[Fred Stevens K2FRD]

Joy, I'd like to offer just a little ray of hope for his iBook. I had a problem with my 900 G3 iBook (new Aug 03) last month in which it would boot up to the whirling gear, but as it was going to the blue screen, it would shut itself off. It wouldn't even open Disk Warrior as a boot CD. I ran the hardware check CD that came with the computer and it said everything was OK, hardware-wise, but I wasn't convinced. With visions of having to buy a new iBook or PowerBook, I phoned Apple Tech Support (paid version) and determined the problem was in the system software. I reinstalled Tiger and it's been working fine since, albeit a little lost data since I didn't back up to my external HD as often as I should have. So maybe, just maybe it's "only" a system problem.

That "pop" in his iBook bothers me, however.

Fred

At 11:41 AM -0500 5/26/06, Joy Freeman wrote:
>Thanks for the feedback!
>
>He also had his logic board replaced, back when it was covered, and though I
>was originally assuming hard drive, I'm guessing you might just be right. He
>has decided to stop using the iBook until he can get home next week (thank
>goodness for public libraries) and can do a full backup. Then we can run
>some disk diagnostics. If it's not *obviously* the hard drive, we'll revisit
>the problem then, but I'm with you: if we're going to drop more than two or
>three hundred dollars on a fix, it's probably more logical to consign the
>machine to providing spare parts (although if I could get the lagic board
>cheaply enough, I do rather like messing around inside these iBooks).
>
>The good news is we have another same-generation iBook for him to use, and
>it hasn't ever suffered from the logic board problem. The bad news is that
>the second iBook is my backup machine, especially for non-Universal apps
>like Photoshop, but also, ever since I migrated everything to my new
>MacBook Pro, I've been unable to print to the Adobe PDF printer, so I've
>been distilling my pdf files on the iBook. So now I absolutely must get that
>problem fixed (it's integral to my business) so I can hand over the iBook.
>Sigh. The MBP is sweet, of course, but I'll miss the iBook--my favorite
>computer ever...
> 
>Thanks again,
>Joy