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Yes, it will report 12MB. I believe some were sold this way.

What I wonder when is: would it be possible to swap the lines back on the motherboard?

Only 32MB being recognized is consistent with what I’ve heard. I believe the pinout of the higher capacity 2400 modules is different.

Coming soon part 2 - a better organized place for all this repair documentation I've been gathering. I'm shuffling some things around - don't worry, all previous links will be redirected to their new locations.

The 150 shipped with either a Casio or Sharp screen. I have the Casio (which seems to be most common) and it's terrible - way more blue than the 100/145, worse artifacting, poor contrast, and very noticeably worse response times. It's possible the Sharp screen's a bit better, not sure as I've...

I’d recommend a 145 over a 150 any day unless you really know what you’re getting into. The 150’s screen is slightly higher resolution, but it looks terrible, far worse than the 145’s display, and the 160/165 display. The RAM is a nice extra but the high capacity modules are very expensive. The...

I typically use Mpegdec - plays back MP3s just fine on systems as slow as the PowerBook 540c.

Yes. I think you just pry up on it a bit. I've replaced the paste in my system.

Sometimes that happens if the cap damage is bad enough. It can get inside the ribbon cabling going into the LCD panel and ruins it - that's not able to be replaced.

The 165 isn't a bad machine, but the LCD on it (even recapped) is pretty crappy. I'd actually recommend the 140/145 over it most of the time - the 140 and 145 are monochrome machines, and the 165 is 16-color grayscale. That may sound better, but the 165 passive matrix screen ghosts/artifacts...

Depends... the 500 series logic board is very reliable, provided there isn't any corrosion. LCDs are starting to have cap failures though - depends on the one you end up with. They have hinge issues but the rest do too. There really isn't a reliable PowerBook that doesn't need work done. The 500...

Coming soon to macdat.net - all the available Macintosh schematics in one place! (photo is WIP, I'm aware some blanks right now are available)

If you want color, I'd recommend either a 540c or a 190cs modded with a PowerBook 5300c or 5300ce LCD panel. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. The 180c is a pretty nice system as well but it's fairly slow, expensive, and RAM is unobtainium. If you don't need color, there are a few...

LIND's utility must have released before the 500/PPC did in 1995. It probably won't launch without WishIWere on a PowerBook 550c either.

Lower capacity standard EDO RAM should actually be detected. I'm fairly certain 32MB is the limit, and anything over that needs the rare custom RAM.

VMAIN kicked it on my OEM supply again so it's no longer charging. Battery runs great though, just have to buy that 1A regulated supply and I'll be good. I can now confirm it absolutely 100% won't charge with JUST VBATT. If VMAIN is down then it doesn't detect that it's plugged in, so it doesn't...

I do the same but with a small flat-head screwdriver. Works great if you’re patient.

Ohhhhh yeahhhhh For the time being, my OEM supply is cooperating. It’s still a bit unclear whether these will charge with ONLY VBATT and not VMAIN, but right now VMAIN is deciding to work on my OEM supply regardless. We’re charging.

I LOVE how that looks. I’m planning on doing up a 500 series PowerBook in that color someday - would look amazing I think. Great results!