I don't think the TAM is impossible to fix. But I bet the back of the board is a mess.

ah jasus nooooooooooooooo - looking at those pictures I can see green on all the via's under where the battery was - noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

hi 360 alaska took a few pics of the mainboard is the reset button the one outlined with the white line Got a bad scare when I first looked inside this....the harddrive was half…

Sounds like a good candidate for recycling heavily damaged/busted up case plastics using olde school techniques: Cut texture matched flat panel section of case to fit SE's floppy …

Congrats on your TAM find Of course it will probably need caps...Did you try the reset button on the logic board?

what a score................I got me a TAM baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...............Oh happy day - The tam is not working..........I know nothing about them. - took off back cover…

oh.........here is the other yoke I picked up ------------- .....................

Man, I never really knew I needed this until now. Would be cool to have one to cover the floppy slot actually.

bibilit said: The floppy drive is pretty easy to service, remove the two small springs by the side of the drive, the black plastic guide for the heads and remove the top meta…

You have a 3D printer? Nice. I don't know of a 3D model of the drive cover, but if someone has an SE drive cover and a 3D scanner, they could scan it in.

Too bad you "HAD" that 5300, Bibilit. Not only is there problems with the power connection on the 190/5300 but sometimes when the battery leaks, the PSU Area (under the trackpad) i…

The floppy drive is pretty easy to service, remove the two small springs by the side of the drive, the black plastic guide for the heads and remove the top metal mechanism. Clean …

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yup the HDD is bad. Sometimes if you flip it around, itll get going temporarily.  I just picked up an SE and its doing the same thing. Had to rotate the drive around so i can get …

I have nowt (a Yorkshire term meaning nothing) in the way of Mac laptops except some Intel ones (MagSafe, various versions) and an iBook G3 (Snow, Dual USB, 700MHz, 16MB VRAM, 256M…

It is not advisable to use ceramic capacitors in DC-DC switching circuits to replace electrolytics. Tantalum is ok.  Ceramics will vary their capacitance based on the applied volt…

I'm just shaking my head on this because looking at the 190 power area on the last pict Sherry H. posted and having seeing it on my 190, that is a tiny area to recap. No way one is…

the flub-flub-flub is not a broken trace. its either a bad capacitor, shorted capacitor, or shorted load somewhere on one of the rails. You will need to measure resistances to grou…

Yep, DC-DC board is specific to the PowerBook 5300... Unfortunately the 190 has got the power circuitry directly on the logic board. I'm not sure what could be wrong there except m…

Tonights job...

techknight said: And this is where your memory fails you.  the 5300 has a DC-DC board.  The 190, That I am unsure of.  Click to expand... I have both my 5300 and 190 ap…

And this is where your memory fails you.  the 5300 has a DC-DC board.  The 190, That I am unsure of. 

techknight said: Once you know the power input is good, then most likely the DC-DC board is toast. youll need to fix/replace it.  Click to expand... Unfortunately on the …

Test the adapter on another machine, like the clamshell iBook if you got it. At least you will know that will work or not.

Thanks to everyone for support. I will have a closer look, and hope to find something. I have checked with hard drive disconnected, without VRam and Ram.