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Jeff1954 · Dec 22, 2004, 07:15 PM

Our Ibook, g3 700 duel got droped last week. at first it started crashing at start-up, loading the OS system then stalling, screen froze. Then we tried to start it with the CD holding the 'C" key occasionaly we'd get an Icon but ocasionaly you could hear it starting but no screen. Ocasionaly the CD would spin but mostly the CD wont spin. We tried to reset the PMU by pressing control, option, shift, and on, at the same time, but we get the same stuff. If we let it set for a while and try starting we'll get an Icon, but if try again it just sets, can hear the hard drive doing stuff and a few nosies I guess, the fan maybe, but no load up or screen. Turns on and off OK but that's about it.

Yaw so-pose it's dead?

f1000 · Dec 23, 2004, 04:56 AM

Check to see if your AirPort card or RAM chips have come loose.

Randman · Dec 23, 2004, 04:57 AM

Take it into a shop. It's not ram or an Airport card (otherwise it would still boot).

f1000 · Dec 23, 2004, 05:10 AM

Originally posted by Randman:
Take it into a shop. It's not ram or an Airport card (otherwise it would still boot).

No, that isn't entirely true. I had a defective AirPort card that prevented my iBook from booting. When I removed it completely, the iBook would boot.

I had apparently cracked the card when I was upgrading the RAM.

Jeff1954 · Dec 23, 2004, 12:41 PM

Thanks guys, I managed to figure it out. Fortuently I found a link to the service manuals. And Man, do you so-pose they got enough screws holding these things togeather? LOL Plus thanks to the service manual I did not have to break the top cover. Who would figure they've got a screw underneath the keyboard magnet!! I know now why they charge so much to fix these, it take two hours just to get these things apart!! LOL

Anyways, I found the problem. We'd bought this used two years ago. The fellow we bought it from had upgraded the hard drive. However, after I got it all apart carfully, very carfully, I saw that the hard drive plug didn't look like it was pushed down all the way, about 1/16" to 1/32" of the pins showing. I was not exactly sure this was it but after pulling and resetting, it started right up! All is fine now. So thanks for your efforts. Others are correct, these things will take a licking and keep on kicking, so long as nobody messing with them.. LOL..

Now if I can just get the time to put all those screws back in, LOL.

Originally posted by f1000:
No, that isn't entirely true. I had a defective AirPort card that prevented my iBook from booting. When I removed it completely, the iBook would boot.

I had apparently cracked the card when I was upgrading the RAM.

f1000 · Dec 23, 2004, 07:54 PM

That's good to hear.