[iBook] Troubled iBook

[Kenny Feder]

All:

Thanks for the suggestions concerning my son's "troubled iBook." He's coming
home from school on Friday and I'll try your suggestions over the weekend.
If none of the small fixes work, I'll just back up all of his files to my
desktop machine, wipe his hard drive, and reinstall everything

 I'll let you know what we figure out.

Thanks again!


Ken


On 5/30/06 11:09 PM, "Mary H." <maryh at brucetelecom.com> wrote:

> At 1:47 PM -0400 5/30/06, Kenny Feder wrote:
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>> My son's G4 iBook is behaving very strangely and I'm trying to figure out if
>> it's more likely a hardware or a software problem. When he shuts the lid of
>> his laptop it goes to sleep but when he opens the lid up, it only sometimes
>> wakes up. Sometimes it refuses to wake up, other times it has turned itself
>> off (and it's certainly not configured to do that). In any event, when he
>> attempts to reboot, he will commonly get the dreaded folder with a question
>> mark and the machine simply can't find the OS (10.4) and won't start up.
> 
> Everything here suggests to me that troubleshooting should start with
> PRAM/NVRAM/PMU reset.
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449
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