Would using just the wax in a tealight candle work? When they are almost burnt all the way down, all the remaining wax liquefies. Or would that not be hot enough?

Sounds like bad ram. Run a checking utility and see if it will find bad ram. Do you have the original system checker disc that came with it? Isn't there a utility called "Gauge P…

Sounds like bad ram. Run a checking utility and see if it will find bad ram. Do you have the original system checker disc that came with it? Isn't there a utility called "Gauge …

okay, i'm through with two burning sessions, and it works, but only partly. if i press gently on the gpu chip, it stil goes blank. i've noticed that the alcohol i'm using is only 7…

then burning it shall be. the machine is broken down to bits, i have nice, clean access to the gpu. it's hard to miss, since it has a nice 'ati' logo on top. i'm assuming that i…

If you do want to bake the GPU and see if it helps, I may be able to assist there... i've done some GPU reflow work on these iBooks as well. Ultimately you will need to remove the …

when opening the machine do you see any puffy / leaking / exploded mini cans on the board ? Click to expand... Nothing I could see or smell ) also the vans are working, and t…

when opening the machine do you see any puffy / leaking / exploded mini cans on the board ?

One of my OS 9 machines is a G4 (AGP) with an Giga Designs G4 1,4 GHz upgrade. It worked quite well for about 2 years now, until 10 days ago when it began to hang permanently. The…

I'm going to have to let one of our other forum members take over from here, unless I can dig up more information. Although the symptoms do appear to match that of a Vreg chip faul…

update 2: pressing down on the heatsink did the job. as soon as i let go, the screen went blank. this leaves me with two questions: 1: did i actually press the gpu against the mai…

update: i tried to manually apply pressure (like shimming) to the chip while turning on the machine, but it had no effect: nothing on the screen, but the computer was booting nicel…

i took it apart and did a test. if i press down on the mainboard, where the main display connector is (left of the area between the keyboard and the trackpad) it works well. if i l…

thanks for the detailed reply. i'm not entirely sure what you meant by 'scraping the laminate off', though. i've never had a problem with a gray screen. it always consistently g…

thanks for the detailed reply. i'm not entirely sure what you meant by 'scraping the laminate off', though. i've never had a problem with a gray screen. it always consistently g…

considering tolerances you should be ok

Pin 28 on your Vreg chip has come loose from the logic board. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/tips/iBookG4_vreg_repair/ibookG4_vreg_repair.html You don't have to scrape the laminate f…

hahaha, thank you. i knew about this, even read the article, but - for some reason - thought only g3 ibooks are affected. well, i guess it's time to open her up again - this tim…

Some people say the iBook G4 has the "video chip coming loose from the PC board" issue. There is also a pin that comes unsoldered on a voltage regulator chip. The latter is fixable…

My poor Plus just had its second Analog Board die, most likely C1, as I have the vertical line down the middle of the screen. As I inspect the previous Analog Board I had in it, C…

Some people say the iBook G4 has the "video chip coming loose from the PC board" issue. There is also a pin that comes unsoldered on a voltage regulator chip. The latter is fixable…

hi everybody, it's been a while since i showed up here. glad to see the forum's alive and well. sadly, i have to post about a problem again. i have this ibook g4 (1,02 ghz model),…

The Macintosh IIfx relies on both batteries to start up unfortunately. Mike Richardson (forum member here) sells them for cheap though and ships internationally. Check out his …

Dunno if this requires a new thread. But I've bought a Dayna E/II-T DaynaPort Nubus card. It says no errors. EtherTalk looks to work. I have Mac OS 6.0.8 with MacTCP. But I can't s…

or both, altho CA glue tends to be abit brittle, but i cant think of anything else that would wick its way into the crack as easy