Thanks to AEChadwick for this great thread! :cool:
Some years ago I've written a manual about PowerBook Pram batteries starting with
PowerBook 145B, ending with PowerBook G3 Firewire (Pismo).
Sorry, it's written in german, but you can translate it with Google. Many pictures included...
I opened the Duo power supply by force because the capacitor burned a hole in the case. PowerBook 1xx power supplies have already been (carefully) squeezed with a vice and successfully opened.
You can remove the battery after you opened the 4 screws on the bottom and the smaller screw on the backside near the modem port or cover of the modem port slot.
When you move the upper and lower part of the PB a bit there is enough place to remove the battery.
I did it again, with my second PowerBook 150:
I formatted (again) a Maxflash 2GB CF card in the PCMCIA Slot of my PowerBook 2400c in Mac OS 8.1 (again) with it's Drive Setup (seems to be low level format as it lasts more than 30 mins).
Made 3 partions, copied the contents of the PB 150 Disk...
Same here with a PB 180c.
Apple Diagnostics app found a Logic Board problem so I replaced the complete lower part of the PowerBook, but with same results. Everything else is working fine.
My second PB 180c doesn't show this problem.
I solved this problem some years ago by replacing the...
I posted this picture 5 years ago here too:
I found the original picture 12 years ago here:
Your "missing female connector metal in position 4" is found 12 years ago also here:
I don't measure it now. I have more important things to do now. I did it in the past to find out if there are more than one PB 5x0 power supplies with no power on vbatt+
BTW: I did not invent the expression "vbatt+".
I found it on a picture of this power supply in Internet some years ago.