Not bad. I hope for your sake the RAM has been upgraded - even though they use Duo RAM (which if you can find a Duo, is easy enough to find), they require a special right angle …
68kMLATroubleshootingby LCGuySat, 5 Dec 2009 - 04:56
I picked up a PowerBook 150 in excellent condition for $10. It works perfectly and seems to even have a working battery. The drive is empty but I'll be booting it up later tonight …
68kMLATroubleshootingby Scott BaretFri, 4 Dec 2009 - 23:06
I just wanted to stop in and introduce myself. I've been lurking in the background just reading the forums. I had registered before, but somehow got sidetracked and never got aroun…
Well, I finally got that new display cable today. So I got right to it, I took apart my laptop and tried to fix it.
Pics of repair.
Sadly. It turns out to be the controller bo…
68kMLATroubleshootingby PowerPupFri, 4 Dec 2009 - 02:54
what have you attempted, thing with most commercial soldering jobs is that it is soldered on both sides of the board, as the holes are lined with copper or tin and it is risky biz …
68kMLATroubleshootingby OsgeldThu, 3 Dec 2009 - 23:39
I have been wanting to modify an Asante SE/30 ethernet adapter card to remove the stock pass-through connector and replace it with a right-angled connector. My attempts so far hav…
Digikey's 3.9uF cap worked great. Last time C1 blew, I just swapped analog boards. This time I repaired the original analog board by replacing C1 with the Digikey cap, swapped th…
68kMLATroubleshootingby BugsiThu, 3 Dec 2009 - 07:40
On the same subject. I have a AGP 400mhz Gigabite that refuses to boot from the retail OS 9 CD. Tried 8.6 but no go. It tried from the CD 10.4 but it kernal panics.
ideas?
Cl…
68kMLATroubleshootingby StrimkindThu, 3 Dec 2009 - 07:32
On the same subject. I have a AGP 400mhz Gigabite that refuses to boot from the retail OS 9 CD. Tried 8.6 but no go. It tried from the CD 10.4 but it kernal panics.
ideas?
68kMLATroubleshootingby StrimkindThu, 3 Dec 2009 - 07:30
It does sound like a dried out solder joint, somewhere in the red line. If it was a dying gun I wouldn't expect it to be intermittent at first.
http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/monfa…
68kMLATroubleshootingby BunsenThu, 3 Dec 2009 - 03:12
I picked this one up on eBay about a week ago. I was looking for a cheap G4, mainly so that I could install 10.4 onto my PowerBook G3 Lombard's hard disk, since I could not get the…
The screen of my Color Classic would intermittently go off color - as in the red would become greenish and so on. It was intermittent a few weeks ago, now it seems to be off color…
68kMLATroubleshootingby ClassicHasClassThu, 3 Dec 2009 - 01:12
I just want to point out in answer to the question in my original post, one should not attempt to use a normal 4uF electrolytic (polarized) cap in place of C1. C1 is a bipolar cap…
68kMLATroubleshootingby BugsiWed, 2 Dec 2009 - 23:56