I was the guy who posted on the caps, and to be
honest, I gleaned that from Applefritter (plus another
site; don't remember which). To be honest, just not
too sure.
We may need to look at the logicboard carefully and
see if anything may have become unseated or looks odd
(easy task... yeah, right).
I did go through and reheat all the solder points that looked safe do
do so :) on one of my pb100's, to no avail.
Shipping one across the country did resurrect it for a few months, so
it could be a simple hot point/ loose connection thing.
Pack it in a box, UPS ground from Seattle to
I did go through and reheat all the solder points that looked safe
do do so :) on one of my pb100's, to no avail.
The point is that we should find a scheme of the logic board to
understand the situation better.
I will keep investigating.
Ben
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Ben wrote -
Do they age with use, or simply age as humans, even
if they do nothing?
This specific PB 100 has been used intensively for
4-5 years
(1992-1996) then it was replaced by newer models and
I just switch it
on once every other month.
In the last 8 months it has been
Ben wrote...
Suddenly the screen of this PB 100 stopped working.
The PB 100 completes the boot either from the HD or
the floppy, but
on the LCD there is nothing, just the backlight ring
works, while the
contrast does not change anything.
Ideas?
This is not just one but possibly eight
On Jul 18, 2005, at 7:52 AM, Robert Little wrote:
This is not just one but possibly eight components
that have failed; there are eight electrolytic
capacitors on the back of the screen that age and
leak, and once they do, you get the dark screen. I
have a 100 in the same predicament, and based
This is not just one but possibly eight components
that have failed; there are eight electrolytic
capacitors on the back of the screen that age and
leak, and once they do, you get the dark screen. I
have a 100 in the same predicament, and based upon my
digging, this seems to be the fate of most
