[sredhead]

Over 6 months I had trouble with my Lime iBook. until finally it has become completely unbootable. While using the iBook it would suddenly just stop like it had been turned off. Resetting the power management chip and the pram worked for a few times this happened - and the machine would be all right for a month or so; but this last time it shut itself down even resetting the power management chip won't cause it to rebook. Have tested the power input and battery are all fine. The screen is black and the drive does not spin up. The caps lock light will show, indicating power is getting to the machine; sometime when pressing the start button the CD draw opens. Any Ideas would be welcome??

[nagromme]

Sounds like what happened to my old mac clone from bad RAM. If you take your iBook apart, is there more than one RAM module in there? If so, try running with just one, then just the other--assuming you still meet the 128 MB OS X requirement. If that's not possible, maybe try RAM from another iBook?

I don't remember clearly, but I assume those iBooks are like my PowerBook G3: one RAM slot that's user-accessible, and another that you must take the thing apart more to get to.

Bad RAM is my guess. If not, then some other hardware failure in need of repair. It doesn't sound like software to me, or you ought to be able to at least boot to an installer CD.