IBook G4, Dead or Alive?

[Eightbitgamer757]

A while back i had an ibook g4 running tiger and you guys on the forums were helping me get it back in business. Well i ran into some problems and a few months later i have been wondering... is it still dead or revivable? it wont do anything when i press power button i think board fried because i lost back light and tried to fix to no avail it looked like a capacitor or something blew. dead or alive??

 

[CooperBox]

Have you tried resetting PRAM? Holding down the Command, Option, P and R keys after switching on, wait for three chimes before letting go.
Remove battery (and power cable if attached) then hold the power key down for ten seconds.
Then after battery and/or power cable reattached, see if it starts.

 

[Eightbitgamer757]

Where is the battery located?
[doublepost=1533940121][/doublepost]or just the regular battery?
[doublepost=1533940696][/doublepost]i tried removing just battery and bleeding electricity from it like you said and nothing happened. but however i did notice that there was a little heat coming from processor area so maybe dead screen? i have a display adapter i can try

 

[1042686]

Where is the battery located?
[doublepost=1533940121][/doublepost]or just the regular battery?

I assume he's referring to the regular battery located bottom upper right of your ibook and performing a hard reset of the system open firmware and hardware. Might fix your woes.

 

[Eightbitgamer757]

before the computer became unresponsive, the screen had an issue where the backlight was not working at all, so maybe a faulty screen?

 

[1042686]

Well, the first steps I'd take are:

1.) a hard reset
2.) If I got a happy bong, Id reset PRAM.
3.) Charge battery fully
4.) test GPU via a external monitor.

 

[Eightbitgamer757]

i tried all of the above to no avail. i reset pram i connected to external monitor which did not detect any display input. it probably has a bad logic board its ok i have a new daily (sigh) windows machine which barely runs windows as it is

 

[AL1630]

If it won't chime or respond at all, but the battery charges, then it probably is the logic board that went bad. If you want a Mac, I would look into an early or mid 2009 white MacBook. They still perform pretty well and can be found for less than $100 on eBay.