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My ibook G4 got hot -the fan was really whirring- but instead of letting the fan run, I shut it off and went to bed. Went to power it up next day-nothing.
Is there anything I can try to get it going again? Is there an easy DIY way to get the data off if I did fry it?
Thanks!
Stephanie
I have done all of these tricks and mine still will not come back on. what should I do?
You can disassemble the computer and pull out the hard drive and put it in a Parallel ATA/IDE 2.5" case. There are several sold by http://www.macsales.com/ that have Firewire. That will allow you to connect it to another iBook of similar age*:
http://www.macmaps.com/usedrefurbished.html
Mind you, if you connect it to another PowerPC Mac and it is not an iBook of similar age, it may not succeed in booting that Mac, but at least you should be able to use the data if the other Mac is able to use the same operating system.
* Links to my pages may give me compensation.
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