On Feb 7, 2005, at 7:39 PM, Adrian Carter wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone out there could give me a bit of advice.
My old Powerbook WallStreet 266Mhz has endured something of a hard
life but has always toiled away on my behalf relentlessly.
However recently and without warning the hinges sheared and took out
the video ribbon cable (the left hand side cable as you are facing the
machine from the front).
I sourced a pair of hinges and a replacement video cable at reasonable
cost and set about replacing them. I was very careful in replacing the
ribbon and the hinges (the ribbon is a fiddly job but I got it in
place so it rested in the intended way). However when it came to
booting up the machine the screen is still dead.
Could it be possible that in tearing the ribbon it's possible that the
screen could have been knocked out as a result. Prior to the cable
getting torn, the display was perfect and never gave me a moments
trouble. It seems as though there is no power to the screen
whatsoever. Has anyone on the list got any ideas to something I could
have disturbed during the process of stripping and rebuilding the
machine.
The machine still boots on an external monitor just fine, but if at
all possible I would like to get the old thing back in working order.
It's still my favourite Powerbook.
Adi
Whenever I have added anything to any of my computers I had to take out
the battery or reset the PRAM in some way.
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