Freecycle is good! iBook G4 1.2Ghz up and running!

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Recently got a G4 iBook from freecycle ... it had the solder cracking issue. Guess the person who had it didn't know how to fix it, although they did figure out how to take the hard drive out (and leave it mostly disassembled as well).

Anyway, after a couple minutes with the soldering iron and a freecycle 40GB drive and extra 256mb RAM module, I now have a perfectly functioning G4 iBook. And it came with the airport extreme card and internal bluetooth too!

[rgG]

Recycleader!!!

[ztirffritz]

Geez. Freecycle here just has Tandy 386SX computers running TandyOS.

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ztirffritz wrote:
Geez. Freecycle here just has Tandy 386SX computers running TandyOS.

Not to make you feel any worse, but the guy I got the 40GB (5400RPM) laptop drive from had a dual opteron server with 12 250GB hot swappable hard drives that he got for free.

[Acer]

timg wrote:
[quote=ztirffritz]
Geez. Freecycle here just has Tandy 386SX computers running TandyOS.

Not to make you feel any worse, but the guy I got the 40GB (5400RPM) laptop drive from had a dual opteron server with 12 250GB hot swappable hard drives that he got for free.
That's a lot of porn!

Oops, channeled Jimmypoo for a sec, sorry.

[Jimmypoo]

There was porn??


What is FreeCycle?!?

Is it a place/thing? Or just another term for dumpster diving?

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Jimmypoo wrote:

What is FreeCycle?!?

Is it a place/thing? Or just another term for dumpster diving?

http://www.freecycle.org/

[RAMd®d]

Where was the faulty solder spot?

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http://www.coreyarnold.org/ibook/

[David S]

What did you actually solder? Did you remove the board and solder the pins of the problematic chip on the underside of the board?