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Post #1 by snuci
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Just got this today.

A Macintosh Portable 5120 with backlight upgrade. It didn't power up (as expected). Unfortunately, battery is dead and the motherboard needs recapping. I heard one faint beep once after hundred of tried resetting it and it looked like it tried to start but then died. I did have to wipe off some capacitor goo from the underside of the board (must have went through a via) but I was able to swap parts with another one and get everything including the hard drive going.

Question: Is this the same as the 5126 backlight screen? Just curious as it looks to be he same shade of grey as the non-backlit.

Here's a couple of terrible looking pics.

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