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Post #1 by superpantoufle
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Hi all!

I have a PowerBook 145 that's been running 24/7 for the last year or so, serving pommel-s.ch, a website about my collection (down at the moment, obviously). Yesterday I noticed the site was down. I checked the PowerBook, only to found she had crashed, and the lower half of its screen was bright orange.

I rebooted and cold booted her a couple of times. She's running fine, but the lower half of her screen is dead. The upper half acts normally, while the picture is blurry with a lot of artefacts.

It's nothing but bright orange. It also stay orange when the backlighting is turned off. Here are two pictures. The first one just after a cold boot, the second one with backlighting off. Any clue to what happened? Any chance to fix this easily, or is the LCD panel just dead?

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