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<blockquote data-quote="hardcastle" data-source="post: 878912" data-attributes="member: 111252"><p>So this morning I powered up my G3 Ibook and it worked fine but about 10 minutes later whilst I was away from it at the other side of the room I heard a fairly loud cracking/clicking noise and it just turned itself off and since then I've not been able to turn it on.</p><p></p><p>Now ever since I've started using it again, the battery has not worked, doesn't show any power lights and I've heard that this can affect the ibook running off the mains or something, somehow. Due to the battery always being a resident of Dodge city, I've no way of telling whether the battery blew up or something or if the logic board has gone kaput <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>Any advice?</p><p></p><p>Thanks in advance</p><p></p><p>Edit, the fact that I can't hear a fan noise or anything to me suggests there's no power to the unit at all, if the logic board went kaput would the fan start up, hard drive disk spin etc momentarily ?</p><p></p><p>Also, I've possibly made a faux pas but the reason it doesn't power up may well be down to the fact that I bought and use a power adapter from some far flung part of Asia as I lost the original, I suppose I could've blown that. .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hardcastle, post: 878912, member: 111252"] So this morning I powered up my G3 Ibook and it worked fine but about 10 minutes later whilst I was away from it at the other side of the room I heard a fairly loud cracking/clicking noise and it just turned itself off and since then I've not been able to turn it on. Now ever since I've started using it again, the battery has not worked, doesn't show any power lights and I've heard that this can affect the ibook running off the mains or something, somehow. Due to the battery always being a resident of Dodge city, I've no way of telling whether the battery blew up or something or if the logic board has gone kaput :( Any advice? Thanks in advance Edit, the fact that I can't hear a fan noise or anything to me suggests there's no power to the unit at all, if the logic board went kaput would the fan start up, hard drive disk spin etc momentarily ? Also, I've possibly made a faux pas but the reason it doesn't power up may well be down to the fact that I bought and use a power adapter from some far flung part of Asia as I lost the original, I suppose I could've blown that. . [/QUOTE]
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