Hi
I'm pretty sure that this is a logic board issue, but I want someone to tell me: "no, just hold down the "apple" and "!" keys simultaneously, kick your ruby slippers together, and all will be well."
So I thought I'd write
I have a refurbished G3 iBook, 14 inch, white (14.1 LCD 16 VRAM)
I have had two entirely new logic boards placed in this computer since I bought it - both at Apple's expense - and it may just need a third, since this problem reminds me of what happened the last time I got it replaced.
I turn on the computer, it chimes, looks to be starting normally, and then it starts displaying some fairly wild visual patterns on the monitor. After a few startup attempts, it seems to have settled on white cloud-like patterns proceeding across the monitor from the upper left to the lower right, then replaced by blackish clouds overtaking the white clouds and ultimately covering the whole screen in blackish/grey color.
It was pretty cool the first few times, but now I'd like it to go back to normal.
The computer is spinning, whiring, cranking all the while, to no apparent avail.
It will not boot normally off a CD (holding down C at startup)
At the advice of a local repair shop, I tried squeezing firmly on the base of the computer 1 inch below the keyboard and three inches in from the left edge during startup. supposedly that's where the video card connection is at on the logic board, and sometimes, so I was told, that will solve the issue temporarily (at least while you are squeezing it) if the problem was a loose connection.
That didn't work either, though I may be doing that wrong.
I tried resetting the power manager and the PRAM (got the chime while resetting the PRAM). Didn't help.
Keystrokes for reboot (ctrl-apple-power) works fine, as does shutdown (holding the power button down until it shuts down).
This computer is less than 3 years old, so Apple may pay for it, according to my local friendly repair shop guy.
any help would be appreciated
peace
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