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I'll post pictures asap (machine is in the basement right now). Thank you! I believe that the video output to an external monitor is not affected, as it's just the upper half of the LCD that's showing the stripes. But I'll test as soon as I can (probably mid week). I have just bought a...

I killed the machine. After I soldered a new PRAM battery to the interconnect board, half the screen is missing pixels: The upper screen half is showing vertical white stripes every 7 or so pixels. I have another interconnect board which shows the same phenomenon (actually worse: The whole...

I've just ordered one (made for "Powerbook 145") from Amazon. Thanks!

OK, thanks. Yes, the second PSU is also original. I'll look for a "modern" one, then, at least for testing purposes; if that works out ok, I might get into recapping... Never done it before.

Hi, thank you so much. Screech: The screech is also output by headphones connected to the speaker jack, i.e. I'd also assume something wrong on the Motherboard. I've since discovered the chip ("U16" on the motherboard, it's a smallish square chip called "59152AH, (c) 90 Apple, VI02L245" (at...

Hello, I am renovating a powerbook 160. Its screen has been recapped and works well. The battery is dead; I‘m rebuilding it to house 5 x 1.2 V 700 mAh NiCd cells (which means it won‘t last long but I hope it‘ll last a few minutes). The PRAM battery is also probably dead (date and time, AppleTalk...