Re: HELP: iBook G4 doused with ginger ale


Otto Pylot wrote:
> Howdy all,
> My nephew spilled ginger ale all over his 12" iBook. Not surprising, it
> doesn't boot reliably now. By that I mean when it does, the Apple logo
> appears (OS 10.3.9 btw) but that's all. The screen then goes thru the
> changing of the colors routine. So he gives it to his uncle (me), and
> says "fix it please".
>
> I took it completely apart (my god that thing has a million tiny
> screws!), cleaned all the gunk I could find gently with isopropyl
> alcohol and KimWipes (laboratorians know what those are) and blew
> everything dry with compressed air. Put it all back together ( with 8
> screws leftover) and tried it. The symptoms didn't change.
>
> I've only been able to boot into Safe Mode once so I tried to repair it
> with the Disk Utility. DU got about half-way and then a dialog box came
> up saying "Disk Utility has lost connection with the Disk Management
> Tool and cannot continue". So I quit and shutdown and now I can't even
> get Safe Mode to work. I tried doing Target Mode with my MDD DP 1.25
> and that worked fine. Except that I had to hookup my keyboard to the
> iBook because it's keyboard doesn't seem to want to work. Once it
> appeard on my desktop, I used my DU to attempt repair. DU did it's
> thing and finished only Permissions were not, or could not, be enabled.
> However, the problems still exist. Target Mode works all the time so we
> can at least recover the data and then wipe the drive but I'd like to
> try as much as I can before I declare it dead and they put it on eBay
> for parts. I don't have the original disks that came with it. They'll
> bring them over tomorrow so I'd like to know what else I can do once I
> get the disks (it they are of any help at all). They called the local
> Apple store and asked about repairs and Apple said it wouldn't be worth
> it. So I'm open to any and all suggestions from those of you who've
> been down this road before. Thanks.
>
> --
> Deja Moo: I've seen this bull*** before.
>
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Have a look at
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20041012075239848

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