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iBook G3 serial number help

Nukemkb

Nukemkb

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If your iBook is on Mac OS X, then click on the Apple in the top left corner>About this Mac>click on 10.x (x being like 10.4.8) until you get Serial Number (serial number here)
 
It should also be under the keyboard. The keyboard is removable to expand the RAM and Airport card.
 
All,
thanks! I worry when software shows no serial number, and I wish to register this iBook with Apple.
 
Note that the reason the software doesn't show the serial number is probably because the machine had its logic board replaced. Possibly several times.
 
Nukemkb said:
thanks! I'll give it a "pull" when I shut down. Kinda the manual way 'eh?;)
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Believe it or not, there's nothing particularly dangerous with doing either of these things while you're plugged in to wall power. :D Unless you are even clumsier than I am! :eek:

The keyboard is probably easier, since you don't have to turn the computer upside down. It actually talks to the computer via a ribbon at the bottom, so the two clasps at the top are purely mechanical in nature.

On mine, the serial number sticker is a small sticker with just the alphanumeric number and a barcode, and it's located approximately underneath the F8-F10 keys. You just pull towards you gently (or "down" the keyboard) on the two clasps between the Esc and F1 and between F11 and F12/Eject, and then raise it gently on that side, pivoting where the spacebar is. You'll see it right away. :)
 
Also note that if your keyboard is locked down, you'll have to give the plastic screw between the F5 and F6 keys a little turn to unlock it. And yes, I've opened up my keyboard numerous times while my machine was on.

***opens keyboard***
***closes keyboard***
***opens keyboard***
***closes keyboard***

Just don't go poking around under there while it's on...but a glance to see the serial number won't harm anything.
 
Plastic screw? Oops, sorry, I didn't know about that! Is this just a feature of later iBooks? I just have a Num Lock light between F5 and F6.

EDIT: I can just see myself having started the "Post yourself computing while your keyboard is up" thread. ;)
 
mkrishnan said:
Plastic screw? Oops, sorry, I didn't know about that! Is this just a feature of later iBooks? I just have a Num Lock light between F5 and F6.
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Look carefully at the Num Lock light, though. Does it have a line going through the middle of it?
 
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