IBook G3 Won't Do Anything

Hi,
I have an iBook G3 14in 32 VRAM 2 USB that wont do ANYTHING when I press the Power button! I've tried everything! Reset the PMU, Let it run only on battery, let it run without the batter (power cable only) and It wont make a single sound! It doesnt do anything and it doesnt even make a sound! I have tried picking it up by the left palmrest and squeezing it but it just wont do anything!
Thanks in Advance

Hi, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
If you're trying to get it to start up by squeezing to the left of the trackpad, you need to squeeze it and push the power button at the same time.
There are a couple of things that can cause the iBook to be dead. One is a bad logic board (specifically, a dead PMU). The other is a non-functioning power input (DC-in) board. Sometimes when the DC-in board dies, it will only run from a charged battery. It won't charge the battery and it won't run from the power adapter. This happened to my husband's. We swapped batteries frequently, allowing my iBook to charge both batteries, until he could get his fixed.

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