Ibook and Impulse !

[30pin]

Picked up an Ibook and an Impulse Reply 200. It is the first Ibook I have picked up. Does not work. More than likely the motherboard is dead. But as far as I can figure out it has a 600mhz cpu, 128mb of ram, a 20gb harddrive, cd player and an airport card. Came with the charger and a travel case. External condition is great! I plugged in the charger and have got three out of four green lights on the battery showing. It has been plugged in about an hour. When you press the start button, it chimes, but nothing on the screen.

The Impuse Reply 200 is interesting. It is twice as thick as the Ibook but is smaller than the Ibook. It has a 9 1/2" active matrix colour screen. 8mb of ram, 500 mb hardrive and a place for a pc card. It is powered by a Cyrix(586?)cpu. The two-tone keyboard is very good. It reminds me of a small PB180c.

 

[Patrickool93]

The iBook probably suffers from the logic board problems with the video chip. Some have attempted to fix this, and had success. The impulse sounds interesting. Sounds really thick 8-o

 

[equill]

Looking on the bright side, the commonest manifestation of the graphics chip failure is no chime, no hard drive activity (no startup at all), and loud continuous noise from the fan. If your iBook chimes, and the chime is succeeded by harddrive activity, you may find some sign of desktop by holding the display at such an angle that you can see what is drawn on the display by bright reflected light. If so, it is probable that the CCFL backlight has died, or even, cross fingers, that the brightness control (fn + F2, then F2 alone) is at minimum. It's worth a look.

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[30pin]

I had some time to do a little research on the Ibook. Found an article that had some things to try. I put pressure on the bottom of the Ibook and pressed the start button. It chimed and booted right up to O.S. X. Then it asked for a password. Have to figure out if I can get past that. I hope not to wipe the hardrive. The screen is perfect! The Ibook runs very quietly! The battery took a charge, all four lights were green. Once I get into the system I can check the air port card and see how that works!

 

[wood_e]

I shimmed the graphics chip area on a 900 with a square of thicker cardboard and to my knowledge the thing is still working today.

 

[Christopher]

Picked up an Ibook and an Impulse Reply 200. It is the first Ibook I have picked up. Does not work. More than likely the motherboard is dead. But as far as I can figure out it has a 600mhz cpu, 128mb of ram, a 20gb harddrive, cd player and an airport card. Came with the charger and a travel case. External condition is great! I plugged in the charger and have got three out of four green lights on the battery showing. It has been plugged in about an hour. When you press the start button, it chimes, but nothing on the screen. The Impuse Reply 200 is interesting. It is twice as thick as the Ibook but is smaller than the Ibook. It has a 9 1/2" active matrix colour screen. 8mb of ram, 500 mb hardrive and a place for a pc card. It is powered by a Cyrix(586?)cpu. The two-tone keyboard is very good. It reminds me of a small PB180c.

Sounds like a 16MB graphics 600MHz iBook. If you get the shims in there you could get general info out of it and go about fixing it later. Selling the 20GB drive? [] ]'>

 

[30pin]

Had a bit more time to play on the Ibook. As a matter of fact, I am writing this post on it!! It is O.S 10.3 and has 384mb of ram. This thing is awesome!! I will have to put a shim in it later, but for now the C clamp will do. I am not used to such a quiet laptop, pleasant change!!