Tech - thanks again, as always.
You are right, fluid leak around the ribbon cable inside the screen.
I took off the shielding and played around, i used isopropyl to clean off the board as much as i could and there seemed to be a slight improvement. i then noticed part of the ribbon cable...
Can you determine why this screen is doing this? All caps have been replaced on back of the screen and on inverter board. There has been no improvement or change since cap replacement.
I've reseated the video cable several times on both ends without much effect. The top portion is always good...
Thank you for the reply.
The PRAM has been reset. The video cable has been reseated. The dark video persists. The brightness will work going down, and back up with the controls but it just doesn't get very bright.
Are there any electrolytic capacitors to replace on the 500 PB series? Does the...
I have a PB 540c with an active-matrix color display. Everything works but the screen is dark. The brightness buttons slightly make the brightness flicker when pressed but does not make the screen bright.
I've read that I should replace the caps on the screen, which I've done on my PB 180 -...
The "Startup Disk" app is not compatible with the Mac Plus. I have confirmed this to be true, and read it online, but I don't know exactly why it's true.
Thank you.
I want to force my Mac Plus to boot from a certain SCSI ID, where I have a chain that has multiple drives that contain system folders.
I can't change the SCSI IDs of the drives due to other circumstances, so I want to force the Mac Plus to boot from a certain ID. As it is now, the Mac keeps...
I cannot get my powerbook 540c (OS 7.5.5) to boot from a specific SCSI ID even when trying to manually select at boot (Command-Option-Shift-Delete-#).
I have two different system drives on the same scsi chain, but it will always boot from the drive with the higher SCSI ID.
If I manually...
I recently purchased a V5.0b SCSI2SD from Inertial Computing to be used in my Mac Plus. I cannot get the board to be recognized by a Win8 desktop.
I've tried different USB ports on my computer, and different USB cables... The utility is always "Searching for device".
Windows does not...
Strange corrosion on the case frame - thick white powdery surface you can see in the first picture around the CPU. White corrosion uniform to the whole frame.....thinking i'll need to completely strip it down and clean it... maybe there's a metal cleaner i can use?
No spill damage I can...
I won an Apple II "Plus" on a goodwill auction recently for around ~85 total. I don't typically collect these machines, and the last time i used one i think i was in middle school.
It came with a stack of cards that i'm looking to identify. In the 3rd picture i can see one of them is a 16kb...
I read somewhere in this forum that it's possible to transplant the screen from a Duo 230 into PB 100.
Duo 230 Screen
Built-in Display: 9.1" Grayscale Native Resolution: 640x400
Details: 9.1" grayscale passive-matrix (4-bit, 16 grays) Supertwist LCD with a 640x400 native...
you guys got it, thanks. it was listed with a bunch of PB stuff so i assumed it was related.
with the tip you gave me, i found a description of a similar card on ebay which matched my photo (note this is not the auction i'm bidding on):