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Update today: I could remove the glass assembly from the metal frame (pushed gently on glass with toothpick through corner holes) , and slowly removed the zebra strip all the way around. Now I have the LCD glass just by itself. I cleaned all the way around. But using a magnifying glass, I...

OK so I finally got to it this week-end. I detached the PCB from the LCD glass, and cleaned the zebra stripes all the way around (see photo 1). Upon reassembly, I noticed that I had to add small pieces of spacer material (I used clear blister packaging pieces) in order to keep the contacts...

Thanks everyone. For what it's worth, I inadvertently dropped the computer last week-end (fortunately on the carpeted floor so nothing broke), and the line pattern changed a bit. This would tend to incriminate the contacts. I'll report next week after I have a chance to look into it some more.

So I just revived a Mac portable (non backlit), and now have it boot up from an external HDD. I bought it off CL for $50, and following great advice from this forum, I recapped the board, recelled the battery. I also had to change one of the power FET that had died.  So everything worked as...