Wonder if there's any way to isolate what is causing this? I'm wondering if perhaps it's that PRAM capacitor after all?
Thinking about it, we should know better than to trust Apple capacitors, even ones which are a few years old (iMac G5, anyone?) when they fail.
I'm still hoping to try another battery or to try the battery in another iBook to avoid taking mine apart...but if the logic board is the case, I'll probably get one and maybe wait until I can find flash to use in place of the hard drive to install it (longer term project since I know the hard drive in there is probably closer to the end than the beginning after nearly 15 years of use). No use opening that thing up twice!!
Thinking about it, we should know better than to trust Apple capacitors, even ones which are a few years old (iMac G5, anyone?) when they fail.
I'm still hoping to try another battery or to try the battery in another iBook to avoid taking mine apart...but if the logic board is the case, I'll probably get one and maybe wait until I can find flash to use in place of the hard drive to install it (longer term project since I know the hard drive in there is probably closer to the end than the beginning after nearly 15 years of use). No use opening that thing up twice!!