The 2,w, s. and x keys on my ibook g3 laptop do not work
The 2, w, s and x keys on my ibook g3 a1005 laptop stopped working yesterday. I did not spill anything, and the rest of the keys on the laptop are working fine. Is there anything I should do, or should I get a replacement keyboard? Is replacing the keyboard going to solve the problem?
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Volume down button+power until screen flashes release when boot loader screen pops up ( black screen with cammand prompt) use volume up and down keys to navigate .....Scroll down till reset system is highlighted and use the power button to select and system should reset from there.
i dont know... my i book i got for christmas worked fine and 3 months later it wouldn't turn on... try holding the shift key in wile it starts...if that dosnt work contacta spechialest.
Many iBook G3s came with optical drives for CDs only, not DVDs; and the decoding software for many of today's popular video formats runs extremely slow on all G3 processors. It's not clear that there is anything wrong with your computer other than its age. The first iBook G3 models were ten years old last February.
If your iBook loads to the Apple logo with a spinning gear beneath it but does not progress past that point, follow the instructions in the following article to attempt to resolve the issue:
I ran into this with my home network and my old g3 ibook needed the older speed wifi to connect. I found my old wifi router, hooked an ethernet cable to the newer router (in a regular ethernet port) and connected the other end to the internet port on the old one... they linked and worked fine to provide wifi for the old G3's ..
It sounds like the system is corrupted. With an install disk try starting the mac up holding down the c key on the keyboard. If the screen is working properly on startup, see if the hard drive is showing up. If it is, try reinstalling the system software making sure that you do not reformat the hard drive but preserve users
A1005 is an inexact marketing identifier covering pretty much the entire line of G3 iBooks.
Complete failure to start -- unless it is caused by something trivial like a broken start button -- without any startup or error tones, points to basic logic board failure. A machine this stone dead for no apparent reason is unlikely to be revived, and almost certainly not by third-world techs who don't know Macs. It is debatably cost-effective to resuscitate a sub-GHz G3 iBook from such a failure, compared to replacing the unit with another new or used Mac. The drive in the old Mac can be extracted so as to preserve your data, and can be inserted into an external USB or FireWire case to be accessible to a new Mac.
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