bamdad
Well-known member
hi everybody,
it's been a while since i showed up here. glad to see the forum's alive and well. sadly, i have to post about a problem again. i have this ibook g4 (1,02 ghz model), and it's driving me nuts. i can't even be sure about what kind of problem it has.
if i move the machine, the screen shuts blank, and there's no response from the os. caps lock, numlock etc. can be turned on, but there's no hd activity, and the if i turn the volume up/down to check, there's no response. it's dead. sometimes the only thing it takes to produce the error is moving my lap or putting it on the table, sometimes i have to turn it upside down to trigger it. the weirdest thing is that if i turn it off, wait a few seconds and turn it back on, it usually works again, even if i don't move it at all during the restart.
i thought it's a mechanical problem, some connector came loose or something like that, so i took it apart and.. it looks like nothing's wrong.
now i'm really stumped. it doesn't even seem to be affected by temperature, uptime, being on ac or battery, nothing. it seems as though it only bugs out when it feels like it.
can anybody make some sense of this? i'd be happy just by someone telling me this is a common internal issue, and it cannot be fixed. at the very least i wouldn't feel like i'm flat out haunted.
thanks,
bamdad
it's been a while since i showed up here. glad to see the forum's alive and well. sadly, i have to post about a problem again. i have this ibook g4 (1,02 ghz model), and it's driving me nuts. i can't even be sure about what kind of problem it has.
if i move the machine, the screen shuts blank, and there's no response from the os. caps lock, numlock etc. can be turned on, but there's no hd activity, and the if i turn the volume up/down to check, there's no response. it's dead. sometimes the only thing it takes to produce the error is moving my lap or putting it on the table, sometimes i have to turn it upside down to trigger it. the weirdest thing is that if i turn it off, wait a few seconds and turn it back on, it usually works again, even if i don't move it at all during the restart.
i thought it's a mechanical problem, some connector came loose or something like that, so i took it apart and.. it looks like nothing's wrong.
now i'm really stumped. it doesn't even seem to be affected by temperature, uptime, being on ac or battery, nothing. it seems as though it only bugs out when it feels like it.
can anybody make some sense of this? i'd be happy just by someone telling me this is a common internal issue, and it cannot be fixed. at the very least i wouldn't feel like i'm flat out haunted.
thanks,
bamdad