I book G4 BLACKING OUT

i book G4 blacking out and haven't received my new battery yet. Discovered the recall only recently when we were trying to figure out why the computer is blacking out? Is this related to the old battery?
We also took the battery out and tried using the power cord. It still blacks out. We hear a fan if you hold down the power button and then hear a beep and computer starts up sometimes. Most of the times it's black or blacks out. We reset the PMU. That didn't work. We also had Apple care until Dec. 22 and they said they couldn't help us even though we have been trying to get in the store and no one is ever available to help us. We couldn't even get an appt. with Apple genius people...so busy!
UGH!
Please help.
Thanks.
HELP

I think your logic board is dying too.
Try the following:
apply presure on the bottom of your ibook on the spot
under the left ctrl/alt. Your ibook should now boot,
release presure when you see the apple logo...
It could be that your airport will get broken in the
next few days, many people having this issue.
See for more info:
http://forums1.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=62622&
page=7
Exactly the same thing is happening to mine, it blacks out at random, usually if it's moved slightly. Mine wasn't part of the battery recall though. Battery life is dropping alarmingly fast as well, I'm getting about an hour and a half out of it now. The only change I've made is to put in an airport card about 6 months ago but the problem only started in December
ibook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
ibook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro6,2 (Mac-F22586C8)
The full crash log can be found at the bottom of this post.
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Panics Since Last Report:          3
Anonymous UUID:                    64BB09F4-C27C-4BA6-A3C4-EAF953593C01
Sun Mar 17 21:18:55 2013
panic(cpu 2 caller 0x83506c9b): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xc0000000 0xa691c000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P3/4
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x81ec2188 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x81ec21bc 0x223ce1 0x0)
0x81ec21d8 : 0x83506c9b (0x8371c28c 0x8378c800 0x8372ae60 0x0)
0x81ec2278 : 0x83621608 (0xe826c04 0xd8e9004 0x100 0x16043000)
0x81ec22c8 : 0x83618601 (0xd8e9004 0x100 0x81ec22f8 0x834f6778)
0x81ec22f8 : 0x83d3b9a6 (0xd8e9004 0x100 0x438004ee 0x1)
0x81ec2438 : 0x836402b5 (0xd8e9004 0xd8eb004 0x0 0x0)
0x81ec2478 : 0x8350fe7c (0xd8e9004 0xd8eb004 0x0 0x0)
0x81ec2518 : 0x8350c55b (0x0 0x9 0x0 0x0)
0x81ec26c8 : 0x8350e58f (0x0 0x600d600d 0x702b 0x81ec26f8)
0x81ec2798 : 0x82b07eae (0xc1d00041 0xbfef0033 0xbfef0034 0x857c)
0x81ec2808 : 0x82b17734 (0x1a699c00 0x1a106300 0x8 0x0)
0x81ec2828 : 0x82b3c322 (0x1a106300 0xb 0x81ec2848 0x2345f4)
0x81ec2858 : 0x82b3cb3d (0xe863000 0x0 0x81ec287c 0x0)
0x81ec2888 : 0x82b1cd79 (0xe863000 0xa4837080 0x0 0x0)
0x81ec28d8 : 0x82aded0c (0x6bbcb000 0x0 0x0 0x3)
0x81ec2948 : 0x82ade40f (0x6bbcb000 0x0 0x2 0x3)
0x81ec2978 : 0x82ad405f (0x6bbcb000 0x0 0x2 0x6be38000)
0x81ec2ab8 : 0x82b0d5d8 (0x6be38000 0x1 0x81ec2bcc 0x81ec2bc8)
0x81ec2b68 : 0x82acffe1 (0x6be38000 0x1 0x81ec2bcc 0x81ec2bc8)
0x81ec2be8 : 0x56da06 (0x6be38000 0x0 0x81ec2e3c 0x81ec2c74)
0x81ec2c38 : 0x56e2a5 (0x82b5e720 0x6be38000 0x160bc588 0x1)
0x81ec2c88 : 0x56eb59 (0x6be38000 0x10 0x81ec2cd0 0x0)
0x81ec2da8 : 0x286638 (0x6be38000 0x10 0x160bc588 0x1)
0x81ec3e58 : 0x21dbe5 (0x160bc560 0x1b4155a0 0x1ecfa8 0x5d43)
0x81ec3e98 : 0x210a86 (0x160bc500 0x0 0xe759570 0xea560e0)
0x81ec3ef8 : 0x216f84 (0x160bc500 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x81ec3f78 : 0x295c57 (0xda5e288 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x81ec3fc8 : 0x2a256d (0xda5e284 0x0 0x10 0x18c5fa84)
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
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            dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(6.4.0)@0x834a0000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2.1)@0x82fd3000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.5)@0x7a802000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2.1)@0x8301b000
         com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal(6.4.0)@0x83c05000->0x84019fff
            dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(6.4.0)@0x834a0000
         com.apple.NVDAResman(6.4.0)@0x834a0000->0x8378dfff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.5)@0x7a802000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2.1)@0x82fd3000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2.1)@0x8301b000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Mac OS version:
10K549
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro6,2 (Mac-F22586C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 27346403042381
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The fact that you only have 980 MB available is a problem. You need to leave some space on the device for fragmentation and that's just not enough space at all. So that means that your device is overloaded at this point. When you transferred the purchases and then tried to sync them back, the storage was at its limit. Maybe something got fragmented and put you over the top but now you need to delete some content before those "waiting" apps will finish syncing.
You always want to transfer purchases into iTunes in the event that the app, song, video, book, etc., is no longer available for download, you will still be able to sync it back to your device if you remove it from the device for any reason. Also, If you don't transfer it into iTunes and you sync without doing so, that will erase it from the device because when you sync with iTunes, you transfer the contents in iTunes to the iPad. If the content isn't in iTunes, it will be erased from the device when you sync. Does that make sense? I hope I explained that clearly enough.

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if it's doing that on two different boxes using both coax and s-video then I think that leaves a possibility of the coax. that would be a unusual symptom of a bad coax/splitter but try this.
Wait for it to start acting up - when it starts acting up, stay tuned to that station, and hit your menu > customer support > in home agent > network diagnostics and click ok to start.
check the video signal using that menu selection. after it's done running it will give you a general message like "you're video signals are not in the optimal range" after you see that, hit info and then look at the SNR DB it should give you a number.
32-36 is optimal, below that is questionable.
If it is below that then it's probably going to be a problem with the splitter at your house, and you would either replace it yourself, or call verizon to replace it. be sure to tell them the DB

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