I replaced the inverter; still no luck. Then I bought a little tester on Amazon and verified that the CCFL backlight was good. So I took everything apart and separated the display and the cable to where I could wiggle the cable and watch the backlight cut in and out. Definitely the cable...
I just fixed a similar problem on my new-to-me blueberry iBook. Someone had pushed too hard on the connector, which broke off one of the solder wings on the side of the USB connector. The subsequent insertion/removal cycles loosened up one of the solder joints on the 4 USB lines, and USB...
So I did a little bit of measuring. I couldn't find a pinout for the inverter, but I wound a short piece of bodge wire around the end of each of my multimeter probes and measured the voltage across each pair of pins on the inverter cable where it plugs into the inverter. It looks like pin 2 is...
I used to be on this forum way back in the day (early '00s) under a different username, when I was in high school. Crazy to see that it's still around, and so active!
Anyways, I recently got my first classic Mac in a long time, a clamshell iBook that someone gave me for free as not working. A...