Hi there!
The title says it all - I've recently acquired a Macintosh Portable "demo unit" (much alike the one who was being sold on ebay a couple of weeks ago) that was selling for a pretty low price and I'd be interested in getting it back to work.
The unit has multiple problems, including a dead hard drive, but probably the biggest one is that the video cable is broken - totally cut in two pieces.
I know that earlier, M5120 portables had a ribbon cable that was easier to repair, but the backlit model unfortunately has a flex cable, so I guess I should pretty much rebuild the whole thing from scratch.
I looked around for information about how to do it without any luck - the only reference I've found is this old post from Uniserver, but the pictures are long gone.
I know it's going to be painful and take a lot of time, but I'd really really like to have it alive
The title says it all - I've recently acquired a Macintosh Portable "demo unit" (much alike the one who was being sold on ebay a couple of weeks ago) that was selling for a pretty low price and I'd be interested in getting it back to work.
The unit has multiple problems, including a dead hard drive, but probably the biggest one is that the video cable is broken - totally cut in two pieces.
I know that earlier, M5120 portables had a ribbon cable that was easier to repair, but the backlit model unfortunately has a flex cable, so I guess I should pretty much rebuild the whole thing from scratch.
I looked around for information about how to do it without any luck - the only reference I've found is this old post from Uniserver, but the pictures are long gone.
I know it's going to be painful and take a lot of time, but I'd really really like to have it alive