Mine turns on anytime you want IF you plug it in or hold the battery in but it turns off randomly too. Is the battery low when it turns off randomly? If not you can try lowering the battery connector with a few pieces of paper. IF the screen (backlight too!)stays on when it cuts off randomly it is the logic board.
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Mine turns on anytime you want IF you plug it in or hold the battery in but it turns off randomly too. Is the battery low when it turns off randomly? If not you can try lowering the battery connector with a few pieces of paper. IF the screen (backlight too!)stays on when it cuts off randomly it is the logic board.
If it's anything like the white G3's, I'm definitely not trying it. That thing was a nightmare.
It was easy. But if you thought the G3 was hard then the G4 is almost the same. The hard drive / optical drive is harder than the DC IN Board.
It appears that I have the best PPC laptop still in use!
What?
You don't represent everyone. I know for a fact there's a 1.67GHz 17" hi-res with 2gb RAM and a 250GB 7200RPM HDD.
On my iBook the battery connector was up too high causing it to not connect to the battery and I had to lower it with some paper to get it to work
I will when I get it setup. Right now I'm having problems with the wireless software I'm trying to use, and I'm also having problems getting Leopard cloned to it's HDD. Hopefully those issues will be resolved in a few hours, until then there's the picture I posted in the "I love eMac's" thread in the Apple Collectors forum.
Oh. well, the battery connects, I had it running for a streak of four days and then it got all angry at me again.
BUT I did find an iBook G3 DC-in board that looks exactly the same as the one my iBook G4 has in a closet. I'm gonna see if that helps.
My iBook's DC in board shorted out and some sparks flew. Did not damage it or the power adapter. I thought I fixed it when I found the modem was loose but it did not fix it. The strange thing about my iBook is that motion does not cause it to lock up it is like it is on a timer. It locks up at the exact same point every time. It will not lock up unless you try to boot it. It will run forever at the open firmware prompt. When you boot it it locks up on boot at the blue screen that is is common for it to lock up when you have an old version of application enhancer installed but the same install will boot fine on my PowerBook. When I boot the iBook off the PowerBook's HD it says it is PCI and graphics related.
Whos is it? Nobody posted it in this thread.
Whos is it? Nobody posted it in this thread.
Alright, that covers the why.
But my real question is; how exactly is that machine able to do that? I know there's emulation software, but I wouldn't think an iMac G3 could handle it.
Alright, that covers the why.
Here's one I just did. It's a screen capture of a Windows 7 desktop from one of the other computers used as a desktop background.
The other one was Photoshop.
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Here is a good pic of a aluminum PowerBook. Big enough for a 30 inch! You can see some of my schoolwork in the dock! (Web Design)
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