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Current version by pollytintop, machead3, and oldturkey03 (vote details),

Title:

screen flickers, then system crashes

Text:

For the past day my laptop has been crashing. It will run for about 5-30 mins just fine. All of a sudden, the screen will fail (it will sort of "swipe cut" with a rainbow trailing edge). With a few attempts, i can get it to come back on, but only after turning my laptop off, then back on (sometimes it does nothing but run the fan for awhile without turning back on)

Device:

iBook G4 12" 800 MHz-1.2 GHz

Status:

open

Accepted Answer:

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Edit by Sterling Hirsh,

Title:

skreenscreen flickers, then system crashes
skreenscreen flickers, then system crashes

Text:

For the past day my laptop has been crashing. It will run for about 5-30mins5-30 mins just fine. allAll of a suddensudden, the screen will fail (it will sort of "swipe cut" with a rainbow trailing edge). With a few attemptsattempts, i can get it to come back onon, but only after turning my laptop off, then back on (sometimes it does nothing but run the fan for awhile without turning back on)
For the past day my laptop has been crashing. It will run for about 5-30mins5-30 mins just fine. allAll of a suddensudden, the screen will fail (it will sort of "swipe cut" with a rainbow trailing edge). With a few attemptsattempts, i can get it to come back onon, but only after turning my laptop off, then back on (sometimes it does nothing but run the fan for awhile without turning back on)

Device:

iBook G4 12" 800 MHz-1.2 GHz

Status:

open

Original post by cla1,

Title:

skreen flickers, then system crashes

Text:

For the past day my laptop has been crashing. It will run for about 5-30mins just fine. all of a sudden the screen will fail (it will sort of "swipe cut" with a rainbow trailing edge). With a few attempts i can get it to come back on but only after turning my laptop off, then back on (sometimes it does nothing but run the fan for awhile without turning back on)

Device:

iBook G4 12" 800 MHz-1.2 GHz

Status:

open