[Stone Of Love]

I'm sure we are all aware of the iBook logic board repair program.

Back in April my iBook crashed hard, lost both the logic board and the HD.
I have a 14" iBook G3 600 with 640 ram and a third party 60 gig HD.

The HD was still under warrenty, and the guy replaced the logic board. (so he said) But he told me that the "new" logic board would not allow me to boot into OS9 because that OS was no longer being supported.

Some time in August I was looking around, and went into the start up disc System prefs and found an OS9 folder, clicked on it and restarted. Up into OS9 went the iBook!!??!! While wondering why the repair guy would tell me that it wouldn't when clearly it would, I noticed that much of the software that was part of a basic OS9 install wasn't there. I put in what I needed, installed "ProTools Free" (the reason I still want to boot into OS9) and went on with my life.

About a week ago on a flight from Detroit to Amsterdam the iBook crashed again. It was in my case asleep, I took it out, plugged into the Air planes provided power source, and opened the iBook. Nothing. Powered it up, all I got was a grey screen?? My first thought was that the power on the airplane was funky and it had "zapped" my iBook. But when I got to Amsterdam I tried it again, and it worked just fine!!

Put the thing to sleep and got on my next flight. Got to Madrid and the iBook is still working. I then had to check on my next flight, put the iBook to sleep again and it has not worked since. Nothing but the grey screen no matter what I do.

I have taken it to a different repair guy, his diagnosis is that the logic board is dead, but that the HD is ok. When he opened up the iBook, we saw that the logic board said "Apple 2001"???

Here are my questions:

1: Does Apple sell re-furbished logic boards?
2: Anybody ever had problems powering their laptop on an airplane?
3: Is it possible or likely that the constant rebooting between OS9 and OSX
is what's causing the logic boards to fail?

I wonder about that last question because the first repair guy obviously didnt put in a "new" logic board, and he told me that I wouldn't be able to boot into OS9. Also because of a coversation I had with another Mac guy while in Spain. He said he had heard that the constant rebooting between the OS's could cause "issues".

Sorry for the long post, but I really want to figure out what is going on. A new laptop isn't in the budget, but I would really hate to keep pouring money down the drain on this iBook!!

thanks in advance,

rob