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WoodMaven · Sep 2, 2007, 10:54 AM

Hi, I have a big problem with my iBook G4, a couple of days ago we got hit by lightning, it fried 2 TV's, 3 cable boxes, the complete phone system, 4 out of five phones ,the printer and our well water pump, in short one hell of a power surge!
The Verizon Fios technician was here for 5 hours yesterday, he replaced the complete fiber optic interface, everything from the the fiber optic cable onwards including the router. Problem I have is that I can't get back on line, my mac won't communicate with the router, I tried everything that I could think of.
It so happens that I have here a friend's Power book , it was unplugged at the time of the strike so it was unaffected, I plugged it in and it went on line with no problem. I tried inputting all the info from that machine in to my machine manually but it won't accept it. My G4 seems to work fine except for that, so I ran the hardware tests, it passed them all, I put in the hardware restore CD, twice, I follow the instructions to the letter, but as it after a little while it tells me that a type 2 error occurred while copying, I am reluctant to go through the Apple help line, they want $49.95 to even talk to me and I can ill afford that at the moment, can anyone here help, please?
Rolly

seanc · Sep 3, 2007, 02:27 AM

If your iBook was plugged into the router at the time, it's likely that your Ethernet port has been damaged/destroyed.

ghporter · Sep 3, 2007, 06:57 AM

Yep, I'd say it's your built in ethernet port that's the problem. A way to test this would be to connect a good ethernet cable between your G4 and the PowerBook your friend brought over-if they can see each other, the iBook's ethernet port is ok, otherwise, it's history.

FWIW, the "hardware test" doesn't test anything outside the case-or how well the ethernet port is working. It could be as simple as a toasted solder joint at the connector, but it's still "outside" the case.

@pplejaxkz · Sep 4, 2007, 04:20 PM

Just recently I had a lightning strike and blew out my power adapter for my Macbook. That was easily replaced though, with Applecare. Good luck with yours!