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Mac newbie w/iBook Trobleshooting questions
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1169168" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>You've done an excellent job of trouble shooting for someone who has had no experience with a Mac. </p><p></p><p>Several things to check: One is the memory. If there is only the original soldered in 256 MB, it should be easy enough to check with a memory test program. (Max memory for that machine is 1.25 MB) Memory test for OS X free download. <a href="http://www.memtestosx.org/joomla/index.php" target="_blank">LINK</a> </p><p></p><p>Secondly, the iBook does not use a PRAM battery as the main battery keeps things going. Removing the main battery for any length of time will cause the machine not to boot. So make sure that's good and has a charge on it.</p><p></p><p>What I would do is pull the hard drive from the machine and trouble shoot it bare. You will, however, need the proper boot disk to do it.</p><p></p><p>And keep tuned here. I'm not nearly as familiar with the iBook series as some of our more seasoned users. Hopefully you'll receive some more ideas to go on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1169168, member: 46727"] You've done an excellent job of trouble shooting for someone who has had no experience with a Mac. Several things to check: One is the memory. If there is only the original soldered in 256 MB, it should be easy enough to check with a memory test program. (Max memory for that machine is 1.25 MB) Memory test for OS X free download. [URL="http://www.memtestosx.org/joomla/index.php"]LINK[/URL] Secondly, the iBook does not use a PRAM battery as the main battery keeps things going. Removing the main battery for any length of time will cause the machine not to boot. So make sure that's good and has a charge on it. What I would do is pull the hard drive from the machine and trouble shoot it bare. You will, however, need the proper boot disk to do it. And keep tuned here. I'm not nearly as familiar with the iBook series as some of our more seasoned users. Hopefully you'll receive some more ideas to go on. [/QUOTE]
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