[rescue] FS: G3 iBook 700Mhz, with Airport, problems
Patrick Giagnocavo
patrick at zill.net
Wed Jan 17 08:35:19 CST 2007
On Jan 17, 2007, at 4:53 AM, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
> Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:31:35AM -0500, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>>> I have a G3 "dual USB" iBook, 700Mhz, with the Airport card. (384MB,
>>> 10GB
>>> drive, CDROM)
>>>
>>> It has a funky problem where it works for a while, but if you shift
>>> the
>>> laptop it will flake out and show weird lines on the screen. At that
>>> point you have to turn the machine off.
>>
>> At some point Apple recalled these units for this problem. If you are
>> the orginal owner and can prove it, you may be able to convinve them
>> that
>> they should fix it for free.
>>
>> If you're not the original owner, you may still be able to get them
>> to fix it. After all it was a manufacturing defect.
>>
That ended on a specific date. My belief is, they fixed it, then the
replacement board still had problems.
> or you could do the repair yourself
> http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/726/diy-obsolete-ibook-logic-
> board-repair
>
I've have already waved a dead chicken over it. I suppose I could do
that again, and combine fixing the problem with a chicken BBQ :-)
But I would prefer to sell it.
--Patrick
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