ebw

Hello.

I bought an ibook G3 laptop a couple of years ago and it worked well, but with one problem - it would go to sleep if i moved the screen a tiny bit inwards. This was irritating me so I browsed the internet looking for solutions and found a site with a detailed step-by-step guide on how to resolve it. There were a fair few positive responses in the feedback so i followed the instructions and it worked.

The solution was to rewire something underneath the keyboard - I did and it worked fine for about 6 months. After that something (I don't know what) happened. I moved the laptop from my table to my lap and it froze. I restarted it and it loaded up. I could hear it on but the screen never changed from black.

I got a new laptop and have been using that for a year and a half - but now I've forgotten the site I used to resolve the original problem! so no idea how to undo it!

If anyone has any idea how to fix this problem I will be indebted to you! Thanks in advance!!

ebw

sinclair_tm

So, you are asking for help to undo the fix on the old iBook you don't use?

ebw

No i need to use it now. It's not unused - it was only unused because I was putting off getting it fixed and now i need it! And the problem is the screen - I just can't work out how to sort it out.

sinclair_tm

Is your new laptop a Mac, and does it have firewire?

ebw

nope it's a PC

sinclair_tm

Hmmm, well it seems that you may just have to take it to an Apple repair place. I have never heard of any wire repairs for G3 iBooks. The big problem with them was the GPU coming loose, which sometimes you could "fix" by applying pressure to it with folded up paper between it and the bottom half of the case. If you have no screen output, then I'd say the backlighting or the power inverter has gone, or the GPU is bad. Either way, neither are really user repairs.

ebw

OK cheers. I'll take it to a repair place and post up what's the verdict. thanks anyway