Computer question...MAC!

[Pin Wizard]

I have an Apple iBook G4 laptop I've been using a couple months. A couple days ago I went to shut it down by pressing the button. NOTHING! All I can do is have it "sleep." I've been looking for another way to shut it down. Does anyone know of a way?

Thanks!

 

[battricia]

you can't shut it down by pushing the button. Depending on what OS you're on (I'm going to assume os X), there is an apple at the top left corner of your screen. Click once on the apple and a menu will appear. Down toward the bottom of the menu there are 3 options:

sleep..
restart..
shut down..

click on the shut down and it will shut down.

tricia.

 

[Carl]

For OS 9 and down, you click on "Special" and you will see those choices. You are not supposed to use a button on the keyboard to shut down - you are supposed to use a menu item.

 

[Broken8ball]

On a laptop, if you really get in a bind and need to shut it down try poping out the battery.

Sometimes it seems to get stuck in a shutdown lop. (like when I started to shut down and turned off the router before it was finished. It was still waiting for a handshake from the internet to acknowledge disconnect) At that point its best to kill the power and then restart. The machine will take longer to reboot while it checks the file structure

 

[Pin Wizard]

Originally posted by battricia
you can't shut it down by pushing the button. Depending on what OS you're on (I'm going to assume os X), there is an apple at the top left corner of your screen. Click once on the apple and a menu will appear. Down toward the bottom of the menu there are 3 options:

sleep..
restart..
shut down..

click on the shut down and it will shut down.

tricia.

Thanks, everyone!

Yes, it's an ox X. I see the apple, clicked on it and saw all those listed. Yipeeeee! I'll be shutting down from there now on.

Thanks!!

 

[battricia]

glad you got everything straightened out!

tricia.