IBook to LCD TV

This might be a really silly question, but I do a lot of graphic work on my iBook and the screen is just too small. Will connecting it to my 32" lcd tv work? I know I need to buy the appropriate adapters and such, I just want to check that it will work first.

You are limited to 1024 x 768 resolution, Sarah.
This would make for very fuzzy images on a 32-inch TV.
I don't think you would find this an acceptable solution to your problem.

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Connect iBook to LCD TV?

Hi,
Wonder if anyone can help...I am trying to connect my iBook G3 to my Phillips LCD TV. My problem is the cable. I am using the supplied DVI to VGA connector, however my TV has the same VGA connection on it. In other words two females and it therefore will not connect together.
I understand another option is to use the Apple S-Video + headphone jack for sound. Is this the only option or is one able to get hold of a DVI to "male" VGA connector.
Thanks
Philip

Reading Douglas McLaughlin's User Tip:
Because the Apple Video Adapter is video only, you will also need to buy an audio "Y" cable to get the audio out of your headphone port and into your TV. If you have already purchased an Apple A/V Cable and your computer requires the Apple Video Adapter for the video, you can still use the A/V Cable for the audio out of your iBook.
So, yes, it's normal not to get audio with just the video cable.
Apple Discussions underwent renovations the weekend of November 13. Things are still "under construction."
http://discussions.apple.com/ann.jspa?annID=12

Ibook and lcd tv

Hi, I just got a new lcd tv and was hoping there will be a way to hook my ibook up to it, and use that as a monitor.

Hi Jenny,
The link Ronda posted was actually only about connecting iBooks to standard definition TVs, not High Definition, but the information in there about sound is good too. You could hook it up by standard definition, but the price of the Apple iBook to Svideo adaptor is probably more than the VGA to DVI cable.
I suggest buying a VGA to DVI cable, from somewhere with a good return policy, just in case. The VGA end needs to have pins in it, and the DVI end does too. Plug it in appropriately, then go to the Displays preference panel and detect displays.
You will only be able to mirror the iBook's internal display and run it at 1024x768, 800x600 or 640x480, but those will be much better quality than standard definition video. Depending on your iBook, there are hacks ("Screen Spanning Doctor") which may let you run it independently at different resolutions, but they may decrease the life of your iBook.

IBook G4 LCD screen broken

The LCD screen of my iBook G4 was smashed in an accident. The laptop works fine but the screen is broken. What is the best option for replacing the screen? Is there any option in India?
Harisakhee
iBook G4 12.1''

Since accidental damages are not covered under basic AppleCare or the
optional extended service there; you will have to find a reseller who can
do the work and not adversely affect the remaining hardware. So, to say
they should be qualified in repair as any Apple repair would require.
There is an AppleAsia site and perhaps the link I found there can be of
help in narrowing a search for a qualified reseller / repair center not too
far from your location. India is covered under the AppleAsia region, so
that may be a matter of cost and time; depending on distances and the
cost of parts. Some authorized repair centers may have a second parts
computer, (perhaps with different damage?) and if so, you may get a
break -bad pun- on the cost of a display and lid, plus hinge, etc; when
compared to full retail. But I'd expect a first-rate repair if you go to an
authorized Apple reseller with an adjacent repair center; or one they use.
In some localities, the repair still may be routed to Apple; if they have
no one qualified to do them and if parts availability is limited there.
AppleAsia: http://www.asia.apple.com/buy/reseller/ (general finder page)
Apple/India Portable sales/support/service:
http://www.asia.apple.com/buy/reseller/FMPro
There may be other qualified technicians, but to restore an iBookG4
may be a judgement call; and the total costs not under warranty may
be prohibitive in some locations. I wish you well in your quest...
Good luck!
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2005 iBook G4 lcd display has turned streaky fuzzy pink and blue

Boot up laptop screen looks fine. Goes to sleep, wake it up, screen is now weird. Gone fuzzy, no true colors, looks streaky, pink and blue. I rebooted, no change. I'm plugged in, so it is not a power/battery issue. Since I've had this since 2005 I suspect I have to replace the screen, but heck I don't know. Can an expert help me here? I've got a screen shot to share, how do I upload it?

O&O,
I've got a screen shot to share, how do I upload it?
I think to upload here you have to have a membership. I just upload pics on PhotoBucket:
http://photobucket.com/
It would help to see a pic.
This is from the service manual for the 14" 1.42 GHz mid '05:
"xScrambled or distorted video
Check for video on external display.
• If video is fine on external display, replace LVDS cable.
• If video is scrambled or distorted on external display, replace LCD panel."
That last line is a bit extreme AFAIC. I suppose a bad display could cause the GPU to put out distorted video. So if it was me I'd unplug the LDVS cable and then if the external display cleared up then I'd replace the LCD panel.
The 1.42 also uses the ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 4x AGP I have one of these in a 1.33 12" and it went bad. My normal repair is to swap in a good chip from a PC laptop graphics card. Unfortunately I can't find a cross reference to that chip being used anywhere else but the iBook 1.33 and 1.42.
after it was sleeping for 3 hours and the screen is bad again
Have you tried resetting PMU? Does any of this involve moving the screen? That's one of my checks for a bad LVDS.
Richard
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IBook thinks LCD is a Television

We have an old iBook that we use for presentations with a projector, and it recently stopped being able to send signal to the projector. If we boot the iBook with the projector attached, the initial grey screen with the Apple logo appears. When it switches to the blue background, the projector says "no signal." In the Displays preferences, the main display is called "Television" and it gives choices of different resolutions and MHz. (It should be "Color LCD" and without the MHz values.) The projector does not show up as a display.
Thinking that it surely was a software problem, I booted the bad iBook off a good iBook G3/500's HD (in target disk mode) and the same symptoms appeared. It is not a connection problem since the adaptor works fine when plugged into the other iBook. Zapping PRAM and resetting the PMU did not remedy the problem.
Does anyone have any ideas? Could a short circuit (perhaps in the wires going through the hinge) be confusing the display detection?
Thanks,
Mike
iBook G3/500 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Although I was very skeptical, doing this fixed it...temporarily. After resetting the PRAM, the Displays preference pane came up as Color LCD. I put it to sleep, plugged in the projector, woke it, and that worked too. After telling everyone that it was fixed, I put it to sleep, disconnected the projector, woke it up, and then it had gone back to thinking it was a Television display. It still didn't detect the LCD correctly after restarting it. I was going to reset the PRAM again, but missed the start-up chime. (Another weirdness of this iBook is that the Start-up chime doesn't sound through the external speakers, only throught the head phone jack...at least some times.) After it booted the second time, miraculously, it again detected the LCD.
I know that for the second reboot the screen was opened around 90° but I don't remember how far it was opened the first time. Hopefully, the first reboot was a fluke and there is not a short in the LCD cords going through the hinge. (I suspect that my personal iBook G3/500 has come down with the dreaded cords-through-the-hinge problems where things go haywire if it is opened 90° of more (screen flickers, I lose WiFi connections, and my trackpad occasionally stops responding). The part arrived today.)

IBook internal LCD detected as VGA

The internal screen of my iBook is no longer recognized as a Color LCD screen, but rather as a VGA screen.
When I boot, I no longer see the grey screen with the apple and the swirl. When I boot with an external monitor attached, I see this boot logo on the external monitor only. The same is true when I boot into the Hardware Test (which gives no errors BTW), or any other software before the MAC OS X start (e.g. Open Firmware): nothing on the internal LCD.
In System Information, and System Preferences -> Displays, the internal screen is detected as "VGA", not as "Color LCD" as it should. When I connect an external monitor, the Information gives me 2 VGA screens.
I have tried pressing "Detect Displays", resetting NVRAM, PRAM and PMU. Nothing helps.
It is hard to believe that there is a hardware problem, because once MAC OS X has booted, I can use the internal LCD (although as a VGA screen, and I have the impression the quality is worse than it was before).
Any help is really appreciated.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

This weekend I finally got around to a complete re-install of my iBook to find out whether the problem is software related or not.
This is what I did:
1. Boot from install CD and remove all partitions from my disk. I now had a completely blank iBook with all software ran at boot contained in ROM.
2. Reset PMU
3. Reset NVRAM, PRAM using the keyboard
4. Boot the machine. For this I had an external screen attached as my built-in screen doesn't work from Open Firmware.
5. I got a folder with a concerned face on the external screen, nothing on the built-in screen. I now knew that the problem could not be resolved in SW.
6. I booted into open Firmware using the O+F key conbination
7. I reset NVRAM from the Open Firmware command line and rebooted (reset-all)
8. Problem remained
9. After that I started playing around in Open Firmware and saw that my screen was in its device list as built-in. Any command I gave to the screen however (eg blink-screen) was shown on the external screen.
10. I gave up and went through a rather painful data recovery process.
Conclusion: Something seems to be wrong in ROM? I am sure however that my ROM was never flashed. I have made no progress.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
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IBook with LCD displays

Hi,
For quite sometime now I am thinking of moving on to a bigger display with my iBook. One thing I am sure is, iBook won't work with Apple's cinema display.
I thought of looking on to other options like DELL 20" or Samsung. I am still not sure if my iBook will work with other external LCD monitors or not. I know it will be normal Analog VGA supported display connection.
Will it atleast look like a mac mini or powerbook hooked up to a cinema display (more work area on desktop and more windows can be opened)?
I tried connecting it to my CRT Monitor (19")...it was the same as on my iBook display. One big window open and no increase in work area. I hope i explained the problem fairly well. I want to see something like in those good pictures of apple cinema displays or dell connected to a PC
http://naan.uva.ne.jp/archives/P1050169.jpg
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 1 GB RAM, Super Drive
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 1 GB RAM, Super Drive

Thanks for the information. I heard about this "hac", but I wasn't sure that this would solve my problem. OK, thats nice. But somebody mentioned somewhere in some forum that this software voids the warranty on my iBook. Is this correct?? I asked literally to apple "Is there any way to solve my problem?" and they said NO.
Just wondering if this would do more harm to me than good - in long run.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 1 GB RAM, Super Drive

Ibook G4. LCD - Horizontal Lines After Boot

I am working on an iBook G4. It boots up to the Apple logo. Once the OS starts to load I get a blue screen sometimes and other times a mass of multi-colored horizontal lines. The display works fine when booted to the OSX DVD.
I ran Disk Utility to repair the disk and it's permissions. I backed up the data on the drive and performed an "Erase and Install". I have reset the PRAM. Still getting the same issue.

Hmm. What's the processor speed for this iBook? Is it a 12" or 14"?
There's the possibility that you've got an issue similar to what's known as the "corey arnold" issue:
http://www.coreyarnold.org/ibook/
If you have an external hard drive with a Firewire connection, you could install OS X on there, then boot the machine from this external hard drive to see how it behaves.
Any change with Safe Mode?
~Lyssa

External monitor for 12" iBook G4 800MHz

My iBook G4 800MHz has recently been promoted to being my main desktop computer. I am in the market for an external monitor that will work well with it. Does anyone who has direct experience with attaching external monitors to the iBook G4 have any advice?
So far, I have learned that it will not support any more than 1024x768. However, most of the monitors I've seen are listed at higher than that. Will these monitors work with it, albeit at the lower resolution? This ViewSonic, in particular, has caught my eye. I use a ViewSonic at work (with a Windows PC) and I'm very happy with it so I was leaning in that direction.
I also understand about the video mirroring issue, and have discovered that I could use ScreenSpanningDoctor to overcome it. But unless I get a monitor that works, I'm being premature to worry about that at this point.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Mac OS X (10.3.9)

LCD screens have a "native" resolution. This is the resolution they're designed to run at. While you can usually lower the resolution of an LCD screen from its native resolution, the results will not be very good. You can see this if you change the resolution of your iBook's LCD screen to 800 x 600 for a little while. The display in your link has a native resolution of 1280 x 1024. So, it may be capable of stepping down to 1024 x 768, but the result may be a fuzzy image. Without the Screen Spanning Doctor, this display might not be a very good choice.
CRT screens are much more capable of changing resolutions. A 17" CRT screen might be a better choice whether you decide to use the SSD or not.
Someone else may have to comment on that screen's performance, though.
-Doug

TAM inner film LCD cable is damaged HELP

Due to TAM's inner film LCD cable (yellow color) is damaged, screen is abnormal or no screen sometimes.
Please let me know how to get that cable via online.
Or, I heard old powerbook(or old ibook)'s LCD is identical to TAM, but don't know exactly.
Thanks.
Power Macintosh Mac OS 9.1.x NOne

The LCD might be the same as an iBook or early Powerbook, but there are several slightly different models within each line. There are several LCD modules used in the clamshell iBook, for example. Each one is made by a different manufacturer. Each one uses its own different flex cable.
I would guess that the flex cable used in the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh is unique to that model. Unfortunately, a typical service guide, with exploded diagram and some part numbers, was never released to the field in the US.

Is a headless iBook possible? (Urgent)

I do tech support for a non-profit, and the director asked me to replace his cracked 12" iBook G4 LCD... He jumped the gun and bought a replacement on eBay, which turned out to in fact be an LCD for a 12" iBook G3. The wiring is different, so I can't put the G3 lid on the G4 (right?), and it's going to take some time to resolve the purchase he made. Can I put this back together without an LCD so it can be used with a VGA monitor until then?
G5 Dual 2Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Matching proper and compatible parts is hard enough, but using an eBay
source and getting questionable goods on top of that, really puts a hammer
in the gears of progress.
Had the original display (cracked) been left on the iBook, using an external
in the "mirror" mode could have been OK. Could be still possible, but less
likely, without a working first display or one the system "sees" and then
lets you use the external, primarily. A software called SwitchResX can
help run external displays of differing resolutions on some Macs; and
another called Extended Desktop, a patch or hack, has been used by
some iBook users to add a capability not intended on them. [Said to allow
an external to be used as primary display with lid closed; or to add the
ability to use two displays as one larger display were not native to iBook.]
I'd read of user-hack installs of 12.1" iBookG3 white dualUSB displays
on later 12.1" iBooks, before now; and there are pitfalls. Yes, wiring is
a major problem and I don't know which color coding means what on
them. It is possible to do serious damages to the inverter and other parts.
Some portable computer repair specialists have both tested used and
new replacement parts for out-of-warranty models they commonly service.
I had good luck with wegenermedia and hear of others highly qualified.
Could be your boss would be ahead by letting the qualified do all this;
instead of second-guessing replacement parts and their quality on eBay.
There had been a few iFixit kinds of pages online to help home users of
old computers not under warranty do their own repairs; details of using
the incorrect display would be a bit more of a hack than a standard repair.
You could try calling wegenermedia and talking to Dave about how much
trouble it would be, and if it can be done, to wire the eBay display up to
the newer iBook with damaged display; he may (or not) be able to help.
Ideally, the service would be done totally in the proper setting and then a
guarenteed repair (up to 90 days or maybe even six months) could result.
I wish you well and the best of luck in further investigation on that task.
PS: I see a few ideas, starting with here:
http://repair4laptop.org/disassembly_apple.html
And further down the page, more precisely, "Vicki" here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giona/sets/72157594243899933/detail/
There has to be more; just hard to find.

Ibook vs powerbook questions...

Hello, I currently use an ibook 14"lcd 1.43ghz 512mb ram with a 60gig harddrive. I recently bought a 15"lcd 1.67ghz 1gb ram with a 80gig harddrive.
Was this a good upgrade? How much difference will i see performance wise between the to? Will game play be faster/better? any information you could provide would be great!
Thanks!

And you can always look at objective comparisons at:
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http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=139700
Joe

Iphoto and color profiles

I know this is a tricky topic, but I'm trying to nail it down.
The colors of the prints from iPhoto on my Canon Pixma iP4000 inkjet do not match what I see on my ibook G4 LCD monitor on my ibook. I do most of my editing within iPhoto (although some in Elements). What color profile do you suggest I use with the display--I've tried Color LCD and sRGB (both types) but the colors are still off from the printed output.
The photos generally have sRGBIEC61996-2.1 embedded in them. The output is better with Colorsync on than off, but I still get a yellowish cast on my printed output. I know I could adjust picture by picture, but I need a more comprehensive solution. I'm also not sure anymore how files sent to photo processors and Apple books will turn out compared to my display.
Many thanks for any advice you could give. BTW is there any way to find the kind of embedded profiles in a picture from within iPhoto 6, as well as its current (edited) resolution and size?
Jack Shalom

dhollister:
You probably know more about it that I but in iPhoto's Advanced preferences section there's a checkbox to Add ColorSync Profile (upon import). I've not gotten a good handle on it but you can experiment with some files with that option turned on and off to see if it will correct your problem.
Just ran a test with an image file right out of my Canon camera with the Camera RGB profile. I imported that file with and without that check box selected and didn't see any diffference. Checked the EXIF fields with another application, iView MediaPro, and both reported just "RGB". The user may have to add the particular profile to the file before importing to the the profile they want. I added with iView MediaPro the sRGB and the sRGB IEC6 1966-2.1 profiles and saw little difference when comparing them on screen. I then added the Adobe RGB 1968 profile and then saw a more saturated color in the image. All comparisons were made in iPhoto in the full screen mode.
I know Apple uses the sRGB profile for it's printing, books, etc. so have set up my Photoshop CS2 preferences to use that profile. I've also set my monitor to use the sRGB profile. The books I've ordered have been good color wise so I guess it's working for me.
Hope this information has been of some help.
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Brightness different on left- and right-hand sides

My iBook's display has suddenly gone darker/dimmer on my left-hand side. I can tell because it's noticeably dimmer, and when I drag a photo from left to right, the photo's brightness noticeably changes. Any ideas as to possible cause? (I guess I'll be visiting the store tomorrow; sigh.)

My iBook is the same, and its only 3 weeks old! But
its such a slight difference i dont really care. Im
gonna wait 11 months before my warrenty expires then
replace it.. lol
I have a theory for what causes this though. When
your iBook heats up, its mostly on the left side.
Then when you close your iBook the lcd basically
cooks over that side. Cause its ALWAYS the left side
that is darker, so there must be something happening
to that side that isnt happening on the right. The
heat from the warm hard drive is all i can think
of.
iBook g4 1.33ghz
Mac OS X (10.4.4) My iBook reminds me
of a big fat iPod! =D
At 30-40 percent, it wasn't slight enough a difference. It really did give me a headache.
Interesting theory. I usually put the thing to sleep with the LCD up, so I don't think it applies in my case.

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