What can you do with a dead IBook?

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Just curious. An IBook was abandoned at the office, I claimed it, and after a number of months managed to locate a PSU. Now the motherboard has gone into meltdown. Seems as if this is a common problem according to the number of complaints I read online.

Since I hate to throw anything away, I was wondering if it could be salvaged for something else.

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No idea what's inside Karlos. I just know it ran before when there was still a slight charge in the battery. It's just a plain white IBook.

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Umm.... checks wiki.....

Looks like I have a G3.

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Well.

I guess it's not quite dead. You hear the 'bong' sound, and the apple logo appears and you can hear the hard drive spinning. However, the screen goes blank until you apply pressure to the area to the left of the touchpad.

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I went by a MAC store out by North Hollywood and was greeted by a slightly rude tranny who gave me a very expensive quote on fixing the IBook. So much for that route.

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Operate on it yourself and see if pushing the GFX card bit 'repairs' it? There's a fair few guides how to crack open Apple stuff, for ex.:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Device/iBook_G3_12%22

Nice tutorial! Thanks. I enjoy taking stuff apart.