Roci Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 Here's one for all the hardware bangers out there. Thanks to a touch of luck, and a little bit of caprice, I became a Mac owner tonight. The laptop in question is a 12 inch iBook G4, white, one each. Unfortunately, she's slightly altered from when I first saw her. She was destined for the scrap heap, but being used as a last line of Internet connection in the office where I work. She worked perfectly yesterday. What happened to her while I was away, I can't really say. All I know is that right now, her hinge is frozen, and it looks like someone tried to close it by force. As a result, the front bezel is pulling away from the display, while the rear bezel displays cracks along the bottom right side screw. (T8 or T6?) And there is an open gap between the front and rear bezel that allows me to see the wiring of the entire display screen within. If it would help, I'll try posting some pictures, but I think anyone with Mac hardware experience has run across this problem before, so I don't want to take coal to Newcastle. Now the upside. I'm a fairly good electronics engineer, and I've done everything imaginable (and you can take that any way you like) with motherboards, daughter boards, slots, memory, processors, the whole 9 yards. But all of my experience is in the realm of the PC. I can't handle routine and non-routine disassembly and reassembly down to the board level. But having someone with more experience than me looking over my shoulder would be great too. As far as runtime goes, the power plug the adapter glows when I plug it in to the laptop. But of course I have no power. I can begin to imagine why for any number of reasons. The painful part of this is, that for all the obvious torquing that the upper half has taken, it looks and feels as if everything might just slide back into place with a little TLC. But I want to do this the right way. She's my Mac now, and I want to treat her right. She's a 1.33ghz, 40 gig, and 768 running Tiger. I'd like to pop her up to leopard if I can't get her out of the ICU, but first things first. Is anyone out there who's seen this problem before willing to give a new father some advice for a sick kid? Roci Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121110-ibook-g4-12-repair-and-hehab/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faber73 Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 Usually the problems are from WiFi/Bluethoot card. Leave it and try. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121110-ibook-g4-12-repair-and-hehab/#findComment-857825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maik- Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 If you haven't found it already, check out the guides from http://www.ifixit.com/ Can't help with your problem, but these guides are essential for ibook disassembly (from what I can tell these are "reenactments" from the apple service manuals, which are illigel to distribute), it helped me to change the HD, a impossible task for me w/o the step by step instructions (+ srew guides!) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121110-ibook-g4-12-repair-and-hehab/#findComment-867284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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