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Dead Power Adapter?
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Feb 2004
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My Firewire Clamshell iBook no longer will take power and power on. The LED in the power adapter plug no-longer lights up amber or green. The battery is dead so I can't even boot it up right now.
I don't know if they problem is in the power cable or the board's power unit.
Any advice on now to test one or the other? suggestions?
Shane Hale
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Earth
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Asheville, NC
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Testing this requires either having a known good laptop or a known good power adapter.
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ACSA 10.4/10.3, ACTC 10.3, ACHDS 10.3
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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Originally posted by Detrius:
Testing this requires either having a known good laptop or a known good power adapter.
I know the laptop is good. I don't know if the logic board's power manager is dead or the yo-yo adapter is dead.
Shane
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2001
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The power adapters for both the clamshell and dual USB iBooks have well-known design flaws that cause separation and/or crushing of the tip components, which breaks the adaptor. After going through several replacements (both covered by warranty and then paid for by myself), I purchased a very nice 3rd party unit ("DEER COMPUTER CO., LTD") on eBay for about $30 that looks much better designed and built and works great.
Cheers,
-Nathan
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: here
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Bring to an Apple store and ask to borrow an adapter to test. I'm on my third iBook adapter since 2001, my experience with these has not been good.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Body in London, mind elsewhere
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Originally posted by geekstud:
The power adapters for both the clamshell and dual USB iBooks have well-known design flaws that cause separation and/or crushing of the tip components, which breaks the adaptor. After going through several replacements (both covered by warranty and then paid for by myself), I purchased a very nice 3rd party unit ("DEER COMPUTER CO., LTD") on eBay for about $30 that looks much better designed and built and works great.
Cheers,
-Nathan
Could you post the model number of the adaptor please? i tried searching on their site, but it's not very good 
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