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The junk ibook is a G3 and this one a G4 also the G3 has a crack screen so it wa likely the inverter was damaged also but all a i had to loose was an hour of my life so i went and put it in and my G4 is back again. Don't how long for but im writing this thread reply on it :-0 I know i should...

Hi, Is there a way of testing an inverter board before installing it? The one on my old ibook has given up and i have dead ibook i use for parts. But i dont know what the inverter is like and installing it is a big job especially if i find out its duff also. Is there anyway? Cheers

Hi again djackmac, Yep, that was me. Just seems a coincidence that i have 2 ibooks that do the exact same thing. Have googled this with the expectation of at least finding someone else having the same problem without much luck. I paid about £30 for the ibook as it had the "fans of death"...

Hi, Thanks for the suggestion, tried on both but no difference.

I just picked up another ibook that was going cheap, wanted it for spares for my other ibook g4 in case anything packs up. The problem i have with both ibooks is that they start up and shut down fine, operate brilliantly but they will not restart. When i try this i get the question mark symbol...

Thanks for letting me know i wasnt alone with this problem. Shame really, other than this problem the machine works great, amazingly fast for its age. Would say it performs better than my Powerbook of the same age. Thanks again djackmac!

Ok, after using the external enclosure, i installed a fresh copy of tiger onto the hard drive and had no problems. Everything works fine, so i stuck the install discs in, formatted the hard drive in the machine, installed the drivers and when it asked me to reboot after installation, the machine...

I got hold of an external HD enclosure last night. Prior to that i fired the ibook up and it ran normal, i then restarted 3 times in a row and it was fine. Thought id try one more time for luck and it started playing up again, it could not fine the HD. I then restarted with the install discs and...

Cheers, one of my mates has one of them. Popping over after work to borrow it. If i take the hard drive out of the machine and stick it in the enclosure, will the machine boot up without an internal hard drive connected?

Ok, I got hold of another HD (only 30gb) installed it into the machine, run disk utility and then installed OSX. Went on perfect, set up my account as if the machine was new out the box and left it on for five minutes, restarted it once no problem (perhaps a little slow on the grey screen with...

I have a dead G3, will that have the same ribbon connector? Could give that a go first as i dont have an external disc cage.

Hi, thanks for taking the time to post a response. I have looked at that and everything looks pretty good and soundly pushed home. Any other ideas?

Hi, I recently was given an Ibook G4 from a family member who had bought a newer machine. When they had it they told me that occasionally when it boots up it displays a folder and goes no further, they told me that restarting it solves this and that it was probably a tired hard drive. I...