Problem booting an iBook

It comes up with the ? and the folder icon so its not finding the hard disk.
David Pennington wrote on :

My daughter has one of the Indigo iBooks and it is failing to boot. It comes up with the ? and the folder icon so its not finding the hard disk. However, when trying to start from the CD (holding C down as we start) it fails there as well so my guess is that it can't find and disks at all. Is this likely to be an on-board battery (not the main power battery) issue or is it something more serious.

Any dieas?

regards

David

Christoph Gartmann replied on :

In article ib74p0disas8uoc4t7c7o4jj7r4c2brver@redacted.invalid, David Pennington david@redacted.invalid writes:

My daughter has one of the Indigo iBooks and it is failing to boot. It comes up with the ? and the folder icon so its not finding the hard disk. However, when trying to start from the CD (holding C down as we start) it fails there as well so my guess is that it can't find and disks at all. Is this likely to be an on-board battery (not the main power battery) issue or is it something more serious.

Difficult to decide. The on-board battery is for sure the thing I would try first.

Regards, Christoph Gartmann

David Pennington replied on :

On 10 Nov 2004 17:23:12 GMT, gartmann@redacted.invalid (Christoph Gartmann) wrote:

In article ib74p0disas8uoc4t7c7o4jj7r4c2brver@redacted.invalid, David Pennington david@redacted.invalid writes:

My daughter has one of the Indigo iBooks and it is failing to boot. It comes up with the ? and the folder icon so its not finding the hard disk. However, when trying to start from the CD (holding C down as we start) it fails there as well so my guess is that it can't find and disks at all. Is this likely to be an on-board battery (not the main power battery) issue or is it something more serious.

Difficult to decide. The on-board battery is for sure the thing I would try first.

Regards, Christoph Gartmann

Thanks

Any idea how I get to it?

David