Recent content by mooxitani

Just reflowed all of my solder connections, and I’ve given the board a deep clean with IPA, but unfortunately the screen is acting pretty much the same way. I’ve figured out that if a window is placed right under where the affected section is, the screen looks mostly normal. Is there a chance...

Thanks for the response. I’ve included a better picture of the screen once it has booted. To me, it looks like that portion of the screen’s contrast is higher than the rest. Going to work on cleaning the display board now.

Hi all, I recently picked up a free PowerBook 145B that booted, but there was no image on the screen. After giving it a recap, it now displays a clean image expect for the large section at the bottom of the screen that appears to have too much contrast. Is this an issue with the LCD itself, or...

I’ve taken the board out of the machine and given it an IPA bath. When doing so, two of the capacitors fell off the board with little to no force, thankfully leaving the pads on the board. I attempted to power the machine on again by performing a reset on the power manager, and it powered up and...

I’ve received the machine and attempted to power it up with the 7.5v 3A power adapter. When I first connected power, the machine turned on with zero key press and displayed a sad Mac screen witch I unfortunately did not get a picture of. After that first boot, the machine no longer starts up...

Hi all, I have a backlit portable coming in tomorrow, but it unfortunately does not include the stock power adapter. I know the non-backlit portables can have their hybrid’s fried when an incorrect power adapter is used. Would it be safe to use something like a 3A 7.5V power adapter on a...

Here are some pictures of the board. I have a feeling I’m going to have to remove and clean under the sound chip to get this working again.

After an overnight bath in alcohol, the sound is pretty much the same. I also measured the resistance of the internal speaker, and it is reading about 60 ohms. What should be my next course of action?

Tried putting my ear directly up to it, and I’m not getting anything. Might try fully submerging it in IPA

I've just finished up recapping both the analogue and logic board of my classic ii, but i'm only able to get very faint sound out of headphones. I've already given the board a deep cleaning in IPA with no change. I did notice a trace that looked slightly suspect under C13, could that be...

It ended up being my USB drive that was the problem. Once I switched to a different one, it booted up fine. I’m not sure if there’s something different about this Mac in particular, but it seems to boot just fine off USB from the boot-picker

Hi everyone, I’m attempting to install a Noctua fan in my Q700’s PSU, but it seems near impossible to remove it. This is sadly not the PSU with the two plastic tabs to remove the fan I’ve seen on most Quadra’s. I have removed every screw visible on the PSU and confirmed there are none hiding...

Hi all, I‘ve spent the last couple hours trying to boot my AGP G4 into a 10.4 install disk from USB. I’ve created the boot disk from the 10.4 image on macintosh garden, and it shows up fine in the boot picker, but on selection it displays the error attached. I also receive a “LOAD-SIZE is too...

He already is going to!

I just gave the board an alcohol bath and it is back to working again. Looks like the problem was caps after all.