[Ulrich Kinbote]

What's to explain?

It's dead.

My screen had been remaining black after startup. It got to where I had to restart six times before the screen would work. So I sent it in for repairs. When it came back a month later, it worked like a charm.

And then, yesterday, it shut down. Now it won't even start up. It's just an iBook shaped lump. No sleep light. No harddrive noises. Not even an AC input light on the plug.

Is there anything I can do short of sending back for more repairs and being computerless for another month?

[cold aspiration]

it took them a month to return after repair???? That is ridiculous! Did you have aplecare? Did you send it to apple for repairs?

[Hi I'm Ben]

a month? I had my iBook logic replaced. I went to the apple store on Monday. They mailed it away. I got it back on thursday.

[cold aspiration]

my guess is that he went to a third party repair service

[bourgeoisie]

I've had both experiences through applecare via a flagship applestore. sometimes it takes a month to get it back, sometimes less than a week.

[Ian_Bullock]

In the UK my girlfriend's ibook always takes 4 and a half weeks exactly to have its motherboard replaced, and then it dies again 10months and 17 days later, just in time for the one year's warranty on the last logic board, so that she gets a free repair. Regular as clockwork. Good old G3 ibooks and their little foibles.
Ian