My iBook is dead !!

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dr_luis_rodriguezdr_luis_rodriguez
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Please, i need help !!



I left my iBook G3 900Mhz, 12" on sleep mode and for about 7 hours, when i left it, it was 20% batery left. Anyway, when i tried to turn it on, it wont start. So i hooked the a/c plug, charged the battery an tried again, guess what? ... nada. I can hear the sound at start up but the screen does not move. I tried to reset it (you know) ctrl + command + shift and i dont have any results.

I desperate need help.



Thanks

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  • Reply 1 of 7
    opuscroakusopuscroakus Posts: 317member
    1. After you hear the boot tone (if that is what you are hearing) try to reset the PRAM.



    2. Try taking the battery out and just power it on off of the ac adapter. If it does, put the battery back in it while it is still running.
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  • Reply 2 of 7
    dr_luis_rodriguezdr_luis_rodriguez Posts: 6member
    i have tried: reseting PRAM, PMU, Safe Boot and nothing



    do you think that maybe it's the logic board?



    thnx
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  • Reply 3 of 7
    bergzbergz Posts: 1,045member
    Does the screen show anything or just black?



    Do you hear the HD working?



    --B
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  • Reply 4 of 7
    dr_luis_rodriguezdr_luis_rodriguez Posts: 6member
    i can hear the machine running, but the screen wont change (black)
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  • Reply 5 of 7
    opuscroakusopuscroakus Posts: 317member
    If you can hear the machine running and you have no video then the inverter board is probably bad. It could be the display itself.
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  • Reply 6 of 7
    bergzbergz Posts: 1,045member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by opuscroakus

    If you can hear the machine running and you have no video then the inverter board is probably bad. It could be the display itself.



    This happened to me. Screen went black but since I knew where everything was on my desktop, using the arrow keypad I could activate things like my music without the use of the display, so I knew that the system was running but that I was just without display. (The machine was also configured to start playing any audio cd as soon as it was introduced, and that was a dead giveaway.)



    If you could do something similar, say try to access a program with the keyboard and listen to see if the HD starts spinning more, that might determine if it's the screen or not.



    --B
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  • Reply 7 of 7
    dr_luis_rodriguezdr_luis_rodriguez Posts: 6member
    Thnx.



    What i did was plug in a external monitor and suddenly it worked !!



    now i am running the repair disk permissions.



    i have no idea of what could happened.



    anyway thnx.
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