[ShaneHale7]

I'm sorry to report, my sisters iBook is damaged. She had a Indigo Blue (Paris) iBook. Somehow it was dropped. The case cracked, knocking the USB connector loose, jamming the cd-rom closed and placing several large cracks in the LCD.

It sounds like the system still books up but without the video on the screen, its near impossible to tell.

My sister gave me the charge of pulling all her data off the drive if possible. She has a new 14in iBook, but would like the docuements.

I decided to take the case apart and seperate the internals from the case. No problem there. Took it all apart and looks sounds like everything is still good to go.

I was hoping to simply plug in the AV port to my home TV and use that for video, then connect it to my home network and pull the files to my G4. I have a camcorder to rca adaptor which plugs in the port. But only the audio gets through the cables and there is no video to go along with it. Could this be because the LCD is dead and perhaps the video card? or is it an Apple specific video cable and the video is not going out? or do I have to enable the video out from the OS?

Second method was to share the drive via firewire and the 'T' start up command. This however does not seem to work. I don't know if the firewire port was damage of if this generation did not have the feature.

Any advise?

If i can get it working I would like to set it up, as a video/music player, putting it in a old VCR case and adding an airport card so I can talk and control it over my 802.11b network.

Shane

[sniffer]

So you are asking how to attach AV cable so you can use it on the TV?

Depending on modell, the AV cable might vary, but it should as far as I know end up in three phono he-plugs. One is for video and two is for audio. What I use in most cases is an phono -> scart adapter connected on the phono ends, which you can buy in any TV store. (Depends if your TV have scart in-puts or not)

Hope this helps.

[ShaneHale7]

Thanks, but I believe I already got this... need to dig deeper i guess. Is this an apple specific part or do you think a generic verzion will work?

Sort of good news is that my router will see the damaged iBook when i turn it on. Gives me the MAC address and everything. Looks like DHCP is turned on so its getting an IP as well.

But looks like apple talk is turned off and I stil have had no luck sharing the hard drive via firewire.

Shane

[sniffer]

Originally posted by ShaneHale7:
Thanks, but I believe I already got this... need to dig deeper i guess. Is this an apple specific part or do you think a generic verzion will work?

The AV cable is an Apple product. I don't know if you have any alternatives. The scart adapter is any generic ones.
Can you connenct it to an external PC monitor?

[ShaneHale7]

Well this is a Calmshell G3 iBook (Paris) with the firewire and AV Out. There is no video out to go to a general monitor.

Shane

[SSharon]

my advice is to buy a 20 dollar external firewire hard drive enclosure from newegg.com and just stick the 2.5" drive in there. if its 6 pin its bus powered and then you can get all the info you need off of it and get a firewire hd too.