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Portable no backlit, video fades away

Aektann

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Could you please help me to determine a problem with my original no backlit Macintosh Portable? It starts ok and displays a mouse, beginning to boot normally, but then the picture fades away. My machine was fully recaped and working well before this day. What should I check first?
 

imactheknife

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Could you please help me to determine a problem with my original no backlit Macintosh Portable? It starts ok and displays a mouse, beginning to boot normally, but then the picture fades away. My machine was fully recaped and working well before this day. What should I check first?
Good battery? Also have to recap power adapter. I just recapped my adapter yesterday.
 

GRudolf94

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I've never seen a panel fail like that. I'd check that you have 5V and contrast voltages at the display after the failure occurs. Smells like latent cap damage.
 

Aektann

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I've figured out the reason. The ribbon cable connection the display panel and motherboard seemed to be broken a bit. Hopefully, I'll try to restore it.
 
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