Heats up and shuts down

Found my I book with the fan on and very hot. I left it in the sleep mode as always witht the power cord on. I had to reboot after trying to turn the power on with the switch, tried several times before it would respond. Time to send it back for service?? This has happened twice now in the past 4 days

You may want to determine if you are doing many processor intensive tasks with your iBook. If you are, you may want to not do them all at the same time, this would put quite a burden on your G4 Processor and ultimately the fan. Furthermore, make sure your fan/ventilation system is running smoothly. Ensure that there is not an extremely large accumulation of dust on the side and back fan grilles. (The side one is located to the right of the ports just beside the left palmrest and the back one is tucked away under the screen hinge.) If there is a lot of dust, try vacuuming it out but PLEASE follow safety instructions as to not damage your computer electrostatically. I can not be held responsible for you damaging your iBook G4 with a vacuum cleaner as an attempt to remove dust collection. All I can say is to remove your battery and unplug all mice, keyboards, iPods, power cords, digital cameras, etc. and MAKE SURE THE SYSTEM IS COMPLETELY SHUT DOWN AND NOT JUST SLEEPING then put the end of a vacuum cleaner up to the grilles and vacuum out the dust.
Hope this clears up your issue and your ventilation system which may be responsible for excessive fan usage. I'm not sure whether you should take your iBook to an apple store or reseller for service. You may want to see if the problem persists after these treatments. Good Luck as always and thank you for choosing Apple.

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I thought the fans might not be working, but they were when I looked at them. It's happened from the brand new, and I've used it like that for six months now. But since the problem's become worst, I thought of asking for help here. Is there anything I can do?
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Your notebook will most likely be using a 'universal' mains adapter so it will work perfectly well in the UK as well as the US.
Your problem is most likely to be a build up of dust in the CPU heat-sink which will reduce its effectiveness to the point where the build up of heat causes the thermal protection circuitry to opertae and shut off power.
Clean out any accumulation of dust and also make sure that there is sufficient air able to circulate through the cooling system. Leave plenty of spoace around and under your notebook.
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A typical heat pipe consists of a sealed pipe or tube made of a material with high thermal conductivity such as copper or aluminium at both hot and cold ends. A vacuum pump is used to remove all air from the empty heat pipe, and then the pipe is filled with a fraction of a percent by volume of working fluid (or coolant) chosen to match the operating temperature. Examples of such fluids include water, ethanol, acetone, sodium, or mercury.
You can read the hole article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe .
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Hi there DerVogel ,
Sounds like a Heat related issue ????????
Whenever it shutdown automatically does it turn on right away ? One symptom of a heat related issue is, it takes about several minutes before you can turn it back on again.
Here is how you can isolate the issue since it could also be a software related problem.
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2) Just stay on the Bios , If it doest shutdown on the bios then you might need to reinstall windows. or check if system is infected with spyware or a virus.
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