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Perhaps get a new ribbon cable (from a donor laptop)?

This is what a 180 looks like for about a second after it's been turned on. If it stays, I would guess that something's wrong with the mother- or daughter board, or as previous authors have written a cable is not seated right - I'd first look at the interconnect cable and reseat that (watch for...

Sweet! It sure looks great. It shouldn't be too hard to rebuild the battery - buy a 5-pack of NiMH (i.e. 5 x 1.2 V = 6 V) or 2 5-packs of NiCds, cut open the battery with a carpet cutter (be careful around the area where the contacts are), and remove the dead cells inside. If you have a single 5...

Congratulations! While you have it open, you may want to check the "Spindler plastic" posts. They're often broken. I use hot glue to fix. Check the capacitors on the inverter board, they might have leaked and spread their juices. Remove with a bit of alcohol and a Q-Tip or similar. If you're...

I tried that same screen on several different 160es that I have and it showed the same symptoms in every computer in which I installed it. I guess the issue is with my screen (specifically, its electronics), and not the connector. Good luck!

This is what I measured (old tubes): 140/180: about 154 mm / 4.8 mm 160/165: about 158 mm / 3 mm. This is what I used (new tubes): 150 mm / 5 mm and 150 mm / 3 mm. You need to carefully pry the rubber caps off the old CCFL's ends and move them down the cables, since you want to keep them...

I've now replaced several CCFLs in powerbooks 160/165 (about 3 mm thin) and a Powerbook 140 (about 5 mm). You need to save the cables of the old CCFLs and make sure that you don't cut them - they're just the right length. I've also opened the 140's hard drive and given the platter a few...

Well, say you want to change the hard drive. Apart from dealing with the finicky interconnect board, you have to - unmount any memory on the daughter card so as to get at the screw underneath - unmount the daughter card - unmount the metal holder that holds the floppy and hard drives in place...

I like the 160/165 series Powerbooks. The passive matrix screens are, once recapped, rock solid. There are no dead pixels (as they are passive matrix and have no individual transistors) nor tunnel vision. The display isn't very pretty at anything beyond 1 bit color depth, but the machines have...

Hello, when I open Word 5.1 on my Powerbook 160 running System 7.1.1, its document window covers the entire screen width (a little less than 640 px). I then manually shrink it a bit so that I see the icons (hard drive etc) on the desktop, to perhaps 580 px wide. When I save the document, and...

I‘m told that the inverter board outputs a high frequency alternating current, which I can‘t measure with a regular volt meter. I‘d need an oscilloscope that I don‘t have. Is that really so?

Does anyone know what voltage and frequency (and power consumption) the original CCFL of a 180 display requires? I'm trying to find a replacement CCFL, but for that I'd need to know the volts (and possibly a/c frequency) als well as the amperes that would be required. Thanks!

the 520s were passive matrix (520: greyscale, 520c: color); the 540s active matrix (540: greyscale, 540c: color). I'm looking to replace the CCFL of an 180 (active matrix), but I'd need to find out the voltage (I think this is a couple hundred V) and power consumption. Haven't done that yet...

I had understood that the active matrix color screens actually don't have a capacitor issue (only the passive matrix screens do).

I had a very similar issue on a Powerbook 165 (passive matrix screen). I tried resetting the cable and several interconnect boards. In the end the only thing that helped was a new motherboard. Good luck hunting!

you might want o reset the screen cable (from the interconnect board to the screen). If this doesn't help, it might be the interconnect board... or even the motherboard.

Correction and update: In TCP, I'm NOT using the "Manual" setting but the "Server" one (middle radio button). While I do need to enter the Gateway, I do NOT need to enter the IP. The panel will show the assigned IP once you've connected to Theoldnet Modem's PPP server using the MacPPP control panel.

Great idea, thanks!

I've just connected to the Macintosh Garden with an ancient browser from my Powerbook 180 using Theoldnet Modem. I'm using Zterm 1.0.1 (from the Garden) to talk to the modem. I'm using MacTCP 2.0.6 and MacPPP 2.1.1 (from the Garden). I'm using Netscape Navigator 2.01. TCP and PPP are set...

I just measured one of the grey bottom screws from a Powerbook 145 I have here. It looks like 6 mm to me. See image. I think you're good with T8 6 mm. Good luck!