My ibook is dying, help!

well my ibook froze the other day, so i was forced to do a hard shutdown. when i tried to bring it back up, it wouldn't get past the gray apple startup screen. since then, i have been using target disk mode to try to recover the data (i just bought a 250 gig drive for backup, no backups performed). anyway... i can get the drive to mount and show up in finder... however, after accessing the drive for anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes finder, or whatever is accessing the drive, locks up. this includes: disk utility, dd_rhelp, data rescue ii, super duper, and some more i probably forgot about already. when i plug in the drive, i can sometimes get to the directories and so i have been able to save a few photos. when everything hangs, i have to pull the firewire cord and then the host computer (my powerbook g4) comes back from the hang and i try to mount the drive again...
any help for me? any tricks to get this drive working long enough to get some more data off of it?
thanks,
keith

Were you able to use the Disk Utility in your PowerBook in 10.4.7, to see
and 'repair disk' in the iBook, when connected by FireWire cable? [Forget
about verifying anything when your best hope is to pry a few repairs out
of the iBook's messed up hard drive, and any chance at repairing it just
enough to get that much more out, is not what verify can do.]
You can hardware troubleshoot the iBook's other hardware by installing
a new OSX version into an external FireWire hard drive (bootable extern-
nally enclosed drive) and if you have third party disk utilities, install them
onto the external as well. If you partition the external Firewire drive, you'd
then be able to have more than one OSX system on it; one per partition.
That means, your external drive would be also ready for use with your
PowerBook; backing up the drive or making a complete clone of the
entire hard drive is great medicine; if done before a failure. As in the
iBook's situation, if you could've gotten all the good stuff off that Book's
drive, then get the machine to boot from the OSX installer disc#1, and
get it to boot into Disk Utility, those utilities (zero data option) and re-
formatting to HFS+ could at least be assured if any minor drive errors
were there, they'd be 'written over by zeros' this way. A fresh start.
With a one year old iBook (close to or past the anniversary?) the ticket
would be (or would've been) to get the extended AppleCare protection.
Could be just a hard drive... Best of luck in this adventure.

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I think my iBook contracted an STD after playing with his buddy, the iMac G5.
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But anyways, my iBook is a 1.33 14 inch. I got it in December 2004 (X-Mas) I use it every single day of my life! But now my battery is dying, it dies at a rate of 1% per minute ± Therefore MAX operating time is ±1.4 Hours. I do not turn off my iBook ever, I sleep it.
But anyways in XRG (X Resource Graph) my current is given as about 1400 mAh. Less then half from december last year (2900). My iBook is no longer under warranty and I have no money for a new battery. I'm wondering if anyone else has dead battery issues?
If so can anyone help me get over my iBook's Terminal illness?
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Why! My poor iBook's life has been shortened by so long. It's still a young computer. Better save up for a new battery for X-mas. By then I'll probably get a new one for the same price!
Why Are iBook batteries quoted to last so long? Are people expected to only use their batteries for a month then replace them? I just think that the rate of deterioration is far to great! Just say, If I had applecare, which I don't, would I get a new battery or replacement of some type?

Ibook 1.2Ghz suddenly died - help please.

The machine is 18 months old, has a new battery and i've never had any problems with it. While using it this morning the machine just died. It restarted again with no ill effects, bar the clock resetting. However, thirty minutes later the same thing happened. This time, grey vertical lines preceded the shutdown.
Now, approximately one in three times the machine will start up normally - only to shut down after one or two minutes. All files and folders appear present and correct during this time. The rest of the time, the fans spin up to full speed and nothing else happens.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi Padraig,
Welcome to Apple Discussions
Was the menu bar blinking? Have you deleted anything recently, maybe a font/language? You may want to try starting up in Safe Mode (Knowledge Base Document #107393 on How to Startup In Safe Mode). Do you have another user account? If so try logging into that one and see if you run into the same problem. Do you have the original install disc that came with your computer? Have you tried booting from it? You may want to look at..
Knowledge Base Document #106214 on Troubleshooting Startup Issues
Knowledge Base Document #301170 about The utilities available on the Mac OS X 10.4 Install DVD
Checking the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk (Disk Utility 10.5)
With Disk Utility you can also verify and repair the disk. Do you have an external monitor that you could hook you iBook up to? You may also want to look at Knowledge Base Document #300552 on My computer won't turn on (Display troubleshooting.
Jon
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For the past month or two my iBook G4 (about a year and a half old) has been randomly freezing on me. I was confused and panicked and called all my friends who knew about macs and did everything possible to fix it. I had been keeping it on most of every day in various stages of sleep for the past school year, and it hadn't gotten much use over the summer. When I got back in the fall it worked normally for a few weeks and then started just freezing. It would freeze whenever I tried to use it in class, or a second after I logged in, or after 30 mins to an hour of use. For a couple weeks I couldn't really use it for more than 15 minutes without it shutting down on me, probably twice in that period of time.
Here's what's confusing me: I ran a maintenance and a virus scan, I made sure that it was getting power because I always keep it plugged in as long as I'm not in class, and I made sure that it was off any time I wasn't using it. The problem seems to be getting better; It will still freeze maybe every other day but I can use it for at least a couple of hours before it does for the most part. Yet it still freezes when I take it to class or move it around.
The only thing I have not done (besides taking it to a tech) is erasing everything and starting from scratch.
My questions are the following:
Should I wipe it and start over, or is it likely to be a completely different problem? If I should, I know I need to back up the files, but my computer doesn't seem to want to install the Backup Program (keeps telling me it won't open in various files or that it can't be read or something), so can someone help me with that?
I know it was suggested that someone else whose computer was freezing check to see if they have Applecare- I have no clue whether not I have it and would love it someone could tell me how to find out.
And finally... should I need to take this to an Apple store or something, should I take it back to the COMPUSA we bought it at? or go to an actual Apple store (if this is the case, does anyone know a location relatively close to Athens, GA?)
Thank you so much for helping me!!!

hey there,
sorry to read that, one simple thing you could try that often bugs people on ibooks is taking any additional ram you have out, and put i back in place, that could explain why it freezes. If you don't feel confident enough to do it, take it to any apple store, they'll do it in a minute and shouldn't charge you. The best way to find out about your applecare is to call apple, they'll be able to tell you.
One last idea i have, your computer hates class, and would rather stay at home and sleep all day, just like any of us!
Hope you'll solve this problem, regards
C

Old ibook has died; Can I get my thesis off hard-drive and on to macbook?

Howdy,
My trusty old ibook has finally died (which is understandable; it is some six years old and has been around the world with me, and has served me well)... however, i didn't have the foresight to get some very important files (my thesis among them) backed up elsewhere...
When I attempt to turn on the ibook, the screen stays black, i hear one or two chirps, and then nothing... if i put my ear close, i can hear the extremely soft sound of something spinning (the harddrive, i assume).
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dewfall

Dewfall:
Ronda's suggestion to try Disk Warrior is a good idea. Actually there are three excellent directory maintenance and repair utilities (including Disk Warrior): Tech Tool Pro, Disk Warrior and DriveGenius
These all do a great job of repairing directories and have revived many a seemingly dead HDD. TechTool Pro and DriveGenius do a number of other things, and even they you purchase one of these and it does not work, it is a good tool to have in your toolkit. I own both TechTool Pro and Disk Warrior and use one or the other at least monthly.
However, your main concern at the moment is to rescue your data, and if the drive is viable at all, placing it in an enclosure and connecting to another mac will help. The directions linked in my earlier post are very explicit and helpful. The enclosure linked there is the best price I have seen anywhere, and it does have the more reliable Oxford 911+ chipset. If you decide to remove the HDD here are few tips you may find helpful:
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• Be sure you have the right tools. You don't want to damage the screw heads or you may never get them out. And the Torx 8 screw driver is critical.
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My iBook is dying?

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I have been having some issues lately connecting my ibook to a tv ... kinda of had to fidget with the video plug to get it to work right. It would be almost all the way plugged in but not quite and then it would show up on the tv.
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Hey! I'll try to cut a long story short and see if anyone can help me!
I had an Acer laptop for just over a year, and almost as soon as my warranty/insurance ran out, it broke! Just my luck! I'm already pretty broke, after two major holidays this year, and I'm just to about to move to London to start university, so I wanted to minimise cost. So I bought my friends apple iBook G3 from him for £50. He showed me that it was in working order, how to use it(its my first apple) and so on, so I was pretty pleased with the deal.
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What is the MHz rating of the iBook?
What type of optical drive does it have (CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD, or Combo)?
What is the hard drive capacity and how much space remains available on it?
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My iBook G4 1.2GHz died, presumably because of a small machine screw I discovered that had shaken loose from inside.
At first the computer would just lock randomly, and the display would freeze up with vertical lines. The freezing became more frequent over a couple of days, until finally the computer just refused to power up at all. I attempted to reset PRAM and PMU to no effect.
Now when I attempt to power on there is no chime. I hear the optical drive crank and hard drive spin up, but the screen does not light and there is no further drive activity. The machine is then totally unresponsive unless I reset the PMU again, which then only lets me try to power up again with the same results.
I pulled the hard drive and placed it into an enclosure, it works fine.
Power is getting to the hard drive, optical drive, and keyboard (caps lock light toggles).
Neither the LCD nor external display will show anything
The AC adapter and battery are known to be working, and the symptoms are the same from either power source.
I figured the logic board must have went bad, presumably thanks to that loose screw bouncing around and causing havoc. I can do my own repairs, so I ordered a replacement logic board off eBay. However, after a smooth replacement the iBook exhibited the EXACT same symptoms, except that occasionally the LCD backlight would power up with the replacement logic board.
It appears I have a lemon replacement board from my eBay seller, but my question is whether anything else could caused these symptoms. I can't imagine what that would be though. Any ideas?
Thanks,
-Dan

Dan,
Of course it is possible that you're right about the screw. Where did it come from?
It's a 12"... does this mean both logic boards have fried graphics chips then?
Not necessarily
I never got the chance to see the vertical lines problem with the replacement board since the machine won't boot... no matter which logic board I try now it won't boot.
OK let's look at one at a time
Is the inability to boot, no chime, etc also symptomatic of the failed chip?
Yes but the other problem is possibly U28 on the bottom of the board. Examine that chip carefully with a strong magnifier. Does the soldering look good?
Here Corey does a shim fix:
http://www.coreyarnold.org/ibook/
OK let's go back to the first one and try to boot it with a shim placed on the
ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 4x AGP graphics processor chip.
When you put the book back together it's the one under the heat sink with ATI written on it. It's the last of the three down. Put a piece of cardboard between the heat sink and the chip. Better a thermal pad but for this test the chip doesn't put out that much heat.
The ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 4x AGP has a known failure rate and is infamous in Dell, Sony, IBM and Compaq notebooks. Since you saw lines at one point we're trying to find out if it's the ball grid array that has failed.
Does anyone know if Apple covers this flaw out of warranty?
No they did on the G3s but so far nothing on the G4s except in Denmark.
Richard

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