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PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #82

I did some more cleaning above U4 (after taking the pic), but these corrosions are really small and I should be an ant to find them all.
68kMLA Troubleshooting by MikeatOSX Sun, 21 Jun 2015 - 00:45

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #81

Then it's a board problem for sure.  You need to clean the remaining corrosion (pretty much broadly the area between the power connector and the PCMCIA enclosure.  I again recommen…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by raoulduke Sun, 21 Jun 2015 - 00:45

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #78

The short story is that I don't know... I will have to look over all of this but even then that's super weird.  I assume you've tried reseating the cable a bunch of times. One thi…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by raoulduke Sun, 21 Jun 2015 - 00:29

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #77

Continuation: So I took apart the Kanga and found a small PRAM battery leaking (see pic). But where is the big damage? You can see both sides of the logic board in high resolution…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by MikeatOSX Sun, 21 Jun 2015 - 00:13

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #76

Yes I've already cleaned boards with leaking batteries (PowerBook and Amiga), but their damage was visible when I opened the case. This Kanga is really new to me, shipped from NY.…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by MikeatOSX Sat, 20 Jun 2015 - 08:08

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #75

You should not have a PRAM battery in the machine if it is not working properly (I forgot what this thread was about).  Yes your batteries are in surprisingly bad shape lol.  Well …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by raoulduke Sat, 20 Jun 2015 - 02:46

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #74

BTW: I tested the Kanga again with an original Kanga boot CDR and it seems, the Kanga is booting to desktop, because it's reading very long from the CD-Rom and then sits there wait…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by MikeatOSX Sat, 20 Jun 2015 - 02:09

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #72

I created a topic about that battery and mentioned the polarity issue...  I put the batteries back in their original place beneath the speaker panel but putting it in the HD case i…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by raoulduke Sat, 20 Jun 2015 - 01:50

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #71

Continuation of the story... As I have to do more testing with the "sleeping beauty" (the Kanga), I created two NEW working backup battery packs mixing the old PowerBook 3400 &amp…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by MikeatOSX Sat, 20 Jun 2015 - 01:46

Wiki is down! — #9

The wiki is available again. Yay! All thanks go to wthww, who recovered as much as possible from before/during the infrastructure interruptions.
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Cory5412 Sat, 20 Jun 2015 - 00:19

Wiki is down! — #8

Just as an update. This is still on the docket, I'm talking to wthww about it right now, but I think this is our highest priority. Some errors with the infrastructure at our host c…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Cory5412 Fri, 19 Jun 2015 - 00:52

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #70

I did much soldering (TV, amplifier, radio etc.) BEFORE I bought my first computer (Amiga 500) 26 years ago. And then I swapped one hobby with the new one. Years later the par…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by MikeatOSX Mon, 15 Jun 2015 - 17:14

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #69

Well Macdrone I just meant that until either of us has successfully repaired a catastrophically damaged 3400c, I don't see any reason to stockpile boards that we can't clearly repa…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by raoulduke Mon, 15 Jun 2015 - 04:11

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #68

the 3400c I have, is 180Mhz. I pulled the battery out of it looong ago before it became a problem.  It did have weird issues with the ATA bus freezing up, and etc. Changing out th…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by techknight Mon, 15 Jun 2015 - 00:12

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #64

Here are two pics from a PB 3400 (128MB) RAM and a PB G3 Kanga RAM. Can anybody please tell me what size the Kanga RAM is? Seems to be equal. Hmm...
68kMLA Troubleshooting by MikeatOSX Sun, 14 Jun 2015 - 22:26
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