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Can you charge a laptop battery with it out of the computer?

I recently revived a 2002 iBook. I want to get it up and running but the DC in port is fried, thus making it impossible to charge the laptop battery. Is there a way to charge it externally? Keep in mind I'm not an electrical engineer, so a simple…
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iBook G4 stuck in blue screen

Won't boot into safe mode. I tried booting it holding Shift but it doesn't work! it gets to blue screen and its stuck. I managed to get it passed there by sheer luck once but thats it.
Sevki
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iBook G4 hard disk issue - how to repair broken HFS filesystem?

The OS does not boot, it stays in blue blank screen with scrolling bar. I restarted to single user mode and tried fsck - it said it cannot repair fs. Restarting with OSX install diskette: it did not show the hard disk in the list of target…
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Flash alternative for iBook Mac?

I have a old Apple iBook G4 that I decided to hook up to my main TV. I like the setup because I can surf the internet on my TV now. The only thing that I can't seem to do is watch Flash videos. Apparently Flash Player 10 doesn't play nice with the…
Hunter Dolan
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Before I sell my iBook with OS 10.3, what should I do?

I'm planning to sell my ancient G3 iBook running OS 10.3. Before I do, it seems prudent to create a new admin, purge the old users, and wipe the disk's free space. I'd do a clean reinstall but the media hasn't survived many moves over the years…
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Reimaging iBook G3 with Panther from Windows machine?

I have a working iBook G3 that I want to wipe the hard drive and install OS X Panther on. If I remember correctly it is currently running OS 8.6. Except the only other machine I have to create discs to image it is a Windows machine. I have copies of…
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Identify this (supposedly Ultra ATA) hard drive?

This ia a hard drive I pulled off my cousin's bricked iBook G4 (specs). The specs say the interface is Ultra ATA, which my research suggests is simply IDE, but it doesn't look like any IDE connector I've seen. Here's the connector: Notice how…
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iBook G3 freezes, no touchpad or button response

I have an iBook G3 (900 MHz). When on battery and the display goes to sleep I cannot wake it up. OS X is not sleeping as I can hear the hard drive running and Ctrl + Command + Power does get the restart sound and it does restart. Connecting power…
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Gnome and Debian are too large for my original iBook. What distro/gui should I use?

The machine I'm using has a PowerPC architecture so I'm somewhat limited to what flavors of Linux I can use and I don't want to go back to Mac OS 8.9. The HD is only 3.3 GB so I can't get both Debian and GNOME on it. Any suggestions for a different…
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iBook G3 Ethernet AND Airport dead?

I am looking at an iBook G3 for a friend and both the Ethernet AND Airport seem to be dead. He said they were working recently though, and nothing occurred that would seem to be a direct cause of the problem. When he gave it to me it had 10.2.6…
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How to turn on the screen on a Mac iBook G3

I have an iBook G3 that was bought for cheap. When I press a button on the bottom of the laptop, a light turns on in the front. After several minutes, the light flashes like the laptop is in sleep mode. Even after the light comes on in the front,…
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power supply for a Mac iBook G3 and G4

Does the power supply for an iBook G4 work on an iBook G3?
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iBook PPC fails to load HDD and most CDs and DVDs. What can I do to revive this iBook?

I have an old iBook that is having problems to load things. I want to revive the iBook and make it usable for some tasks and years. Most times the OS from HDD boots ends on a blue screen without text/graph. Few times the OS from HDD is loaded, it…
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Can't find an old IDE connector for Apple iBook G4 HDD

I am asking it here because I did not know where to ask this question, looked it up and this is what I found: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/57998/hardware-questions-and-stack-exchange I am looking for an IDE connector for Fujitsu…
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