mrw
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I recapped my PowerBook 160 with Mac84's parts list. The screen works much better than before the, but the top half is much darker and has much more ghosting than the bottom:
This thread seems to describe a worse but similar situation:
The text in my screen is more readable, though the problem in the thread could be a result of how the picture was taken or stored.
As was suggested in that thread, I tried reseating the display cable both at the LCD and on the display interface board also cleaned a lot of electrolytic capacitor contents off the reverse side of the LCD. The picture above was taken after doing both, so no improvement.
Did I mess up the recapping? I tried checking capacitance but couldn't figure out how to do it with my multimeter.
Is there a specific set of capacitors I should check?
Thanks!
This thread seems to describe a worse but similar situation:
PB160 screen recap failure. Any suggestions?
So quite a while back I recapped a powerbook 160's screen and the results weren't so great. I've done many successful recap jobs (including powerbook screen recaps) in the past so I felt pretty good about the work. Just recently I decided to get it off the self and check my work under the...
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The text in my screen is more readable, though the problem in the thread could be a result of how the picture was taken or stored.
As was suggested in that thread, I tried reseating the display cable both at the LCD and on the display interface board also cleaned a lot of electrolytic capacitor contents off the reverse side of the LCD. The picture above was taken after doing both, so no improvement.
Did I mess up the recapping? I tried checking capacitance but couldn't figure out how to do it with my multimeter.
Is there a specific set of capacitors I should check?
Thanks!