I would suggest to disassemble the display as this procedure is not
difficult on the 190/5300/3400/3500 (they are more or less the same
thing).
The cable may be broken or simply the connector.
Welcome to the club! When you get a similar Mac for free you end up
with a bunch of stuff from e-bay.
At 7:13 AM +0100 2/24/05, Beniamino Cenci Goga wrote:
I would suggest to disassemble the display as this procedure is not
difficult on the 190/5300/3400/3500 (they are more or less the same
thing).
The cable may be broken or simply the connector.
Welcome to the club! When you get a similar Mac
I recently inherited an original G3 (Kanga) PowerBook which the previous
owner, a friend, said was non-functional. The price was right (free),
and she said it might boot, but the unit has been in long-term storage,
so the PRAM and battery are drained.
I got the system started with an external
On 23/02/05 13:38, David Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recently inherited an original G3 (Kanga) PowerBook which the previous
owner, a friend, said was non-functional. The price was right (free),
and she said it might boot, but the unit has been in long-term storage,
so the PRAM and
Laurent Daudelin wrote:
That would probably confirm the backlight is dead.
Thanks, Laurent, for the diagnosis info. It is the backlight after all.
It boots MacOS off the hard drive or CD just fine, and I see a desktop,
but the display is faint. I don't mind spending $100 or so for a new
On 23/02/05 14:23, David Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Laurent Daudelin wrote:
That would probably confirm the backlight is dead.
Thanks, Laurent, for the diagnosis info. It is the backlight after all.
It boots MacOS off the hard drive or CD just fine, and I see a desktop,
but the
If you have a monitor handy, you might try plugging it and see if it
lights up.
David Gardner wrote:
Does anyone have an idea what I might be looking at here (problem- and
expense-wise), and what I should/can check out for myself? I am pretty
handy with tear-downs and minor repairs, but I
Thanks, Laurent, for the diagnosis info. It is the backlight after all.
It boots MacOS off the hard drive or CD just fine, and I see a desktop,
but the display is faint. I don't mind spending $100 or so for a new
backlight/LCD or whatever I need to get this working, since the
PowerBook
Hector I Macedo wrote:
If you have a monitor handy, you might try plugging it and see if it
lights up.
Thanks for the tip, Hector. With the external monitor, the PowerBook
works great. I spent about an hour on it to make sure it's definitely
not the power or logic board, or hard drive. Back on
Laurent Daudelin wrote:
However, once you get it, it might be a little difficult to replace as
you will have to disassemble the screen and this is probably not for
the faint of the heart...
Thanks, Laurent. I did think about dissembling the LCD but after looking
at the instructions, figured it
Thanks, Laurent, for the diagnosis info. It is the backlight after all.
It boots MacOS off the hard drive or CD just fine, and I see a desktop,
but the display is faint. I don't mind spending $100 or so for a new
backlight/LCD or whatever I need to get this working, since the
PowerBook seems
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