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I don't know whether or not the voltage load on those caps is enough that same-value tantalum replacement is "not advisable", but as far as I know, that should at worst cause a shortened lifespan for the caps., rather than causing an immediate failure. FWIW, I used tantalums on my PB100 to no...

I can confirm this works. I moved a 1GB hard disk from my PowerBook 1400 into my 150 (reinstalling the OS of course, but keeping the existing format) and it worked fine. The internal HD format tool is terrible and barely works with any disks other than what the 150 shipped with. You can probably...

I see. That makes sense, and yeah, careful work with a heat gun would probably be required to prevent that from breaking when you try to bend it back. Would be curious to see if you can pull it off.

My 540c has this problem and I don't know what the issue is. I did a full palmrest swap recently (to one in better condition) and the problem didn't go away, so I assume it's to do with the latch itself.

Well well well, where did that come from? Will get it added. Edit: Now up.

Looks good to me. I've done a handful of CCFL swaps but I haven't ordered any new ones yet. Don't see why that wouldn't work though.

Thank you! Will try to remember to get this added soon :)

Definitely polymer. That purple color is a dead giveaway. The only time I have seen purple colored electrolytics has been on obvious large radial caps in power supplies and the like.

Fantastic! Glad you got it worked out.

Funny thing is I just realized that I have a 40GB drive in my PDQ with a single partition. Has been that way for a few years. Guess I've been lucky?

I think the way it works is that if certain system files manage to make it outside of the first 8GB of the partition, things get messed up. So it will work for a while, but eventually can/will break.

Motherboard to interconnect cable should be the same. interconnect cable to the LCD will be different. If you want to do a full swap to passive matrix, just change the LCD and the Interconnect -> LCD cable and it should be right up and running. The Hosiden panel is a little uncommon, yes. Still...

Oh my goodness. Sneaky sneaky sneaky Toshiba! I will look more in to this when I'm home from college in about a week and will update the cap reference on MacDat ASAP! Thank you for letting me know about this!