Recent content by ElementalChaos

Are you sure? Fishy smell usually means capacitor failure.. I will still try and replace everything in that area just to be safe. (Other than the transformer, hopefully that's not damaged because there seems to be no replacement other than from another A.B.) That MOSFET did in fact fail in the...

I finally got around to taking everything apart, and found this: Those black pins are at the transformer... so that would indicate a failure there right? But the fishy smell as opposed to burning smell seems to go against that. Are you talking about the long reddish cap and blue cap here...

I don't have a multimeter, but I think my buddy has one so I'll ask him for it. Where should I check and what voltages should I be looking for? Yes. I forgot to mention it, but once I opened up the machine I was immediately hit with the smell of rotten fish. Which further leads me to believe...

Earlier today I had an urge to play the original SimCity and remembered that I had it installed on this Mac. So I turned it on, it binged, and the monitor started warming up, then I heard a loud *POP* and the monitor fizzed out for a little bit, then heard the bing again, indicating that the...

Makes me miss my old Pismo. It was my first laptop and vintage Mac I ever got, in 2008 when I was 9 years old. I was a stupid kid and I took off the heat sink, and then it started smoking. We had to toss it but I was smart for once and kept the keyboard, battery, HDD, and DVD drive. Hopefully...