Magnetic problem? iBook G4 Superdrive 12" has stuck DVD, screen quits dim
Please help me as I have had a lot of distress the past year about my aging iBook G4. After three years the Superdrive collapsed as it would not take media into the slot. I replaced the original Combo Drive immediately after purchasing the iBook in late 2004 with the said SuperDrive. Last fall I replaced the Superdrive after waiting a year with a new DL Superdrive. It has been working fine especially since I had a screen issue due to a strange voltage issue (my father bumped into the AC adapter, and the screen died and the iBook became unbootable) where I thought my iBook became fried though Apple Store found no trouble after some rest at the store my iBook miraculously worked again after they inspected it and removed the RAM I had added.
Now I am traveling, and after going through the x-ray security at LAX the computer had trouble booting and gave me a colorful lines screen before turning faint though not black. As if it were a kind of sleep- like a coma. This could be because I left media in the optical drive while leaving the iBook off?
Well, the problem has continued, and now I have a jammed DVD that stickes out about 3/4 of an inch. I am lucky to have a new MacBook, but I am getting antsy because I do not have easy wifi in my 3rd world locale, and I don't want the iBook to die - Apples are like children. Please help out with all the solutions possible because of my limited research time. I vagely remember having the colorful lavendar screen problem before, and I have heard of DVD jam problems (media stuck problems) before, but it's been a while, so I really forget what to do though I should in the future be more careful about using the slot-loading optical drive.
After doing the fix on this website: http://www.coreyarnold.org/ibook/ , and I have found out only two places in the USA do reball work on the logic board instead of replacing the whole board for about $50, the computer works again. I even had the flashing question mark discussed on the web page, so I had to take-apart and reassemble again. The computer worked on its own using the pressure method left of the trackpad occasionally from Sunday until Wednesday (today) though the computer collapsed again. Since the shim fix it boots and runs without the pressure method, and I used the exact size and kind of protector disc. I am going to keep an eye on it to see it through otherwise, it's going to a shop.
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http://www.vimeo.com/150591
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