So, welcome to the new and improved iBookGuy channel.
In this episode I have 4 great tricks I want to show you that apply to the iBook G4.
Some of these will work for the G3 as well, and I hope you enjoy!
Ok, so the first trick I want to tell you about is a way to solve a crashing problem
with the iBook G4, the 2005 model.
This would be the 1.33 and 1.42 Ghz models only.
You'll know these particular models because they don't have a removable airport card.
The airport card is attached to the motherboard.
And it is the airport card that is often causing the problem.
Believe it or not, the quickest and easiest way to solve the problem is just to remove
the airport card.
The problem is actually with the logic board, but it is part of the logic board that connects
to the airport card.
If you take the airport card out, then the computer will stop crashing and will run very
stable as long as you're okay resigning yourself to the fact that this computer is never going
to work on WiFi again, and you can use it on ethernet then it should work fine for you.
I also suggest that you wrap the antenna cables in tape to keep them from causing a short.
Ok, so if you break the screen on your MacBook or iBook or PowerBook, there is another possibility
besisdes repairing it that you might want to consider.
You can literally remove the screen and believe it or not the computer will actually work
just fine without the screen, just using an external monitor.
Ok,so what if you want to be able to operate the iBook G4 with the screen closed?
Now, normally you would not be able to do this because the computer would go to sleep.
But, there is a way to disable that feature by unplugging the reed switch.
Here's what the switch looks like.
You can follow the cord to see where it plugs into the logic board.
Just unplug it.
So, just so you know, on this iBook G4 the reed swtich is here and the magnet is here.
On some of the older iBook G4s and especially the iBook G3, its backwards, the magnet is
here and you have to take the screen apart to find the reed switch.
However, there should be a wire running from the reed switch down to the motherboard so
you can unplug it more or less the same way I'm showing you here.
You just have to make sure you know where the wire is.
I'm going to show you a better way to use a dual monitor setup on your iBook G4.
Normally speaking, if you connect an external monitor to a G4 system, you only get a duplicate
or a mirror image of the screen of the external monitor, which that doesn't really do you
a lot of good unless you are wanting to run a projector or something like that.
So how can you fix this problem?
You can download a free program called Screen Spanning Doctor.
This program will allow you to unlock hidden features!
Now you'll be able to use the external monitor like a second display, dragging applications
over to it.
Or perhaps you want to watch a movie on the second display while you work on the first
one?
Another problem is that by default, Apple will only allow you a maximum of 1024x768
on the external monitor.
This program will also unlock all of the resolutions available all the way up to full 1080p high
definition.
It will also enable the arraingement tab so that you can orient where you want your monitors
to be located.
Alright well I hope you found at least some of that information usefull.
And I hope you like the setup I've got for the new channel.
And I've got a great, funny video I'm working on.
You're really going to get a laugh out of.
And it addresses an interesting question you never hear asked in the computer industry.
You always hear people talk about how much better and fast and the graphics are so much
better on these modern computers.
But we never really stop to think about what we've lost.
And what I mean by that is there are actually things that computers from the 1980's are
actually better at modern computers.
And a lot of people don't realize what they are.
I'm going to show you in the next video!