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Lavendar or Gray Screen with sudden coma with dim screen or black

I have a no boot up and sometimes boot up perhaps optical drive related issue:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1995822&tstart=0

This issue is correlated or seperate from my DVD-stuck in Superdrive issue though it is happening regardless of PRAM reset and removing extra RAM. The iBook has been to the store recently, and I remember this issue vaguely from when it was new, so I doubt it is hard drive or connecter related with parts inside.

It is odd to have the computer go whirling (I hear the spinning noise) with a black screen with no boot up or just go into a coma with a dim screen after occasional boot-ups. That is basically the issue, and it seems to have to do with the stuck DVD.

Please help and address the lavendar gray screen with the colorful vertical lines if you have seen this before. An Apple shouldn't be so unreliable even in older age.

iBook G4 (Late 2004), Mac OS X (10.5.6), MacBook Aluminum (Late 2008)

Posted on May 3, 2009 7:28 PM

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May 13, 2009 6:23 AM in response to iBookSuper

After doing the fix on this website: http://www.coreyarnold.org/ibook/ , and I have found out only two places in the USA do reball work on the logic board instead of replacing the whole board for about $50, the computer works again. I even had the flashing question mark discussed on the web page, so I had to take-apart and reassemble again. The computer worked on its own using the pressure method left of the trackpad occasionally from Sunday until Wednesday (today) though the computer collapsed again. Since the shim fix it boots and runs without the pressure method, and I used the exact size and kind of protector disc. I am going to keep an eye on it to see it through otherwise, it's going to a shop.

Lavendar or Gray Screen with sudden coma with dim screen or black

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