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iBook fell off couch and now it won't start.
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I am really, really hoping that somebody can help me with this. iBook G3 (I know, kinda old). Anyway, installed OS X (Panther), all the updates, etc. Runs great. Then, I'm using it on my couch, just "browsing" the web. I got up to go to the bathroom. When I came out, the iBook is laying on floor next to my couch (hardwood floor). The lid is closed (and I think I left it open when I set it on the couch. The only thing I can think is that my dog must have walked across the room and maybe dragged it off by walking into the network cable. Anyway, when I sit back down and press the power button, nothing. It goes that initial "sound" (you know, when the power first starts up), then click on the left side (or at least it seems like the left side), then nothing. Power button -- power sound -- click. Nothing.
I'm hoping (please please please) that there is some sort of "reset" button or that the harddrive is just temporarily turned off or something. But I don't want to spend a couple of hundred dollars at a Mac repair shop for a laptop that is 4 or 5 years old. But, if possible, I would like to get this one fixed. I've got decent software for it and was planning on handing it down to my niece for college.
Is there anything that I, a computer hardware newbie, can check/do to see if it's recoverable?
Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
DTFan
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sounds like a nuked hard drive.
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if it is, is there any way for me to check without taking it to a repair shop?
DTFan
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Try booting it from the Hardware Test CD that came with the iBook. If you can get access to the CD drive after you press the power button, put the Hardware Test CD in and then reboot, holding down the "c" key. This will boot it from the CD, and then you can run the hardware test to see what's wrong. If the it doesn't boot from the CD, then I'm guessing something is seriously wrong.
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It might be a dead hard drive, or it might just be that the hard drive cable came loose. Either way, it's not a terribly high-cost repair (replacement hard drives aren't that much). If the logic board is damaged, then it's probably not worth fixing.
tooki
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might also be the logic board video component, since your screen is not coming on. but if your computer is older than 3 years old, it won't be eligible for the free repair.
http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/faq/
Originally Posted by tooki
It might be a dead hard drive, or it might just be that the hard drive cable came loose. Either way, it's not a terribly high-cost repair (replacement hard drives aren't that much). If the logic board is damaged, then it's probably not worth fixing.
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Read the 'Airport broken thread'. Maybe the APX jarred loose. ry reseating it.
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