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Yes, I know about the OF hack, as I have done it before on the iMac Lamp :-) Maybe I will try it, but as you said, it is a bit too CPU/GPU intensive for this machine.

My cousin, who works in the graphics design business, gave me a nice Sawtooth a few days ago. It has 768 MB RAM, a 30 GB HDD, 2 graphics cards (1 AGP and 1 PCI) as well as a ZIP drive. I've just installed 10.4 on it, and it runs great! I may Xpostfacto leopard into a 2nd partition just for...

I just found this mac while I was throwing away some old boxes. Long live the e-Waste bins in large office buildings! It still has its original 250MB HDD and the SCSI CD-ROM. Usually HDD's are removed from old stuff when thrown away, so I guess I got lucky with this one. It powers on to the...

No fix. Applying pressure worked at first, then more tries between the successes, now nothing at all. Resoldered many components near the power connector and power section, only got the chime once and it stopped playing it midway. I start to suspect broken traces inside the multi-layer PCB, or...

Sorry for the triple post, but now I have a little breakthhrough regarding the 12" PB. The thing died on me just now, so I decided to take off the palm rest and poke a little more around the motherboard, and I found this: If I apply pressure to the left side of the DC board connector, the...

About my above post: No offense to the people figuring out the shim fix or to the people doing it. I was just pointing out that it is by no means a permanent fix. The heatgun fix may also be a little risky, but if you are careful and monitor the temperature with an IR thermometer, it should not...

Thanks, I'll read through it :-) The G4's, as I said, is now written off because of the below reasons: #1: Charred components in the IDE power section. (Black PCB and missing traces etc) #2: While powered on, it started to make a chirp/hiss noise, two legs on the VREG went black, and smell...

Hmmm, The 3 G4's is now officially given up on. Resoldered the mentioned chips, No go. Left them on a little while to observe what happened. Burned smell came after a while. I will rather keep them as parts (That's basically what they are now. All in parts in a box which I call my "Mac...

Thanks, I will give this a shot this afternoon and see if I can get the G4 boards running. As for the 12", I will try the flex method and see if it works. Too bad it is a _real_ hassle getting the mainboard out of this thing.

This issue also causes the machine to power on with no video? I'll give it a try anyway, thanks. I remember reading about this somewhere before, but I forgot where to look for the right info. If I manage to fix one motherboard with this, I should be able to assemble at least one working 'book...

I recently got 3 G4 14" iBooks, but all of them have issues. - One is a 1.33 Mhz, Wasted screen, missing parts and the motherboard powers on but displays no video. - One is a 933Mhz one. It had the ATI graphics chip issue. I heatgunned it, and now it no longer displays any video at all. - The...

I took the MBA motherboard to the lab at work, and soldered the connector back (or, thin wires from the pads on the motherboard, and it still did not charge or detect the battery. Either the battery is wasted or the MBA motherboard has a problem somewhere else. But you are correct, the...

yes, it's still nice :-) I have been working a bit on the SE/30 last night, and found out the following: - The HDD is noisy and 80 MB, so I might replace it with another SCSI drive. I'll dig around and see what I find. - Sound level is barely audible. Capacitor replacement needed, no? - I...

Nah, not free, it was eBay. It was listed as broken, so I figured I wanted a cool project. I was pretty confident that I could fix it, and I am posting from that very Air right now.

Hi, I was just given a nice SE/30, and it has a network adapter too. It boots up nicely, although a little noisy on the HDD side. I have not browser the system contents yet (Because my ADB keyboards and mice are at work), but I was told it has been used to convert between different storage...

Yes, I think so too.. Will dig it out again soon and see if that makes it wake up again :-)

So, I finally got around to get myself a replacement DC-DC board, and guess what? No change. The problem has to lie elsewhere, but I do not know where to look for it. Maybe microcracks somewhere on the motherboard, I don't know. I feel that I now have the below alternatives: 1. Throw it in the...

Thanks for the info. In the rare event of a chime, it stalls somewhere after the chime. No screen power on, no HDD activity. As I said earlier, the machine always powers on, but does nothing else than spinning the HDD and making a click in the DVD drive. I could not even get a chime the last 10...

Hmmm, yeah.. A parts machine is indeed a good suggestion. I will investigate a little if the screen transplant is doable (should be?) or I will get a 867 mhz parts one, just to be sure. I have been through the TI Book G4 hell many times, with incompatible screens, cases and other parts between...

The disassembly and reassembly does not scare me, as I have been through worse many times before. Removing the ram and using the onboard only does no difference. It is possible to power the motherboard outside the case on this machine (connect only vital parts and the LCD) so there is no need to...