my friend came to me with his g4 ibook and his problem is it works fine, but anytime you nudge it a little bit, it freezes. He told me this happened after his mom dropped it, so i'm guessing the hard drive needs to be replaced. If this is not the case, please tell me. If it IS the case, any ideas how I would go about replacing the hard drive? any tutorials for disassembling it?
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old ibook g4 problems
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hmph..that makes it seem very weird then....maybe you were right? bad HDD...Honzo said:nice theory, 1 problem. This lap top is before the days of the shock sensor.
lithium726
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Thats not the HD. sounds like a soldier joint was snapped when she dropped it and when it is nudged, that soldier joint disconnects and the machine locks up. I'm going to guess that when its resting still it barely sits where it should and allows the machine to boot and run.
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Kinda... but Im not not talking about wires, Im talking about the places were the little IC's are solidered to the mainboard, youlre gonna need some very good surface solidering skills to get the part back on if that is the problem.Honzo said:do you mean solder points? As it where the wires are connected to the board with melted tin? If so, thats quite a possibility, and I could check that out too... Thanks!