G4 ibook motherboard fault.
There is a design problem with some G4 ibooks. It can appear after a year or so in some machines. After being on for a few minutes, they get a blank black screen, the fan turns on, and the computer freezes. This article describes the problem and how to fix it.
This is the results of a survey I conducted over a year to see what different models of the G4 ibook are affected by the logicboard fault.
In this article I described the fix for the G4 motherboard fault, but it seems from the comments that more models are affected than what I described there.
SYMPTOMS:
Still unsure? Read more about the symptoms here and here.
Here are the results of a survey regarding the affected models:
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