Re: iBook G4 doused with ginger ale

I see and hear about this all the time.

The easiest solution is the following rule, "No food and no drinks to be
near the computer system at any time".

Completely dismantle the unit.

Clean thoroughly by swishing extensively in a big laundry sink, make sure
the modules are completely under water and that the water is warm. DO this
two or three times, using fresh water each time.

Allow to dry for 3 days with a fan, blowing on the logic boards, hang them
from something. Heat is not required.

If it still fails to work after reassembly, something got fried.




"Otto Pylot" <otto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:300120061933549562%otto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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