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Just because it looks clean doesn't mean the capacitors are good. They can leak, or they can dry up. Many systems I see have caps that "look" perfect, but are in desperate need of replacement. Backlight, it's likely the inverter caps. I'd go ahead and do the rest of the caps on the screen as...

Inquiring minds... I remember reading a build article for a small hands-only clean chamber awhile back, but that was long ago. How'd you build yours?

I've done the 160 caps already, fortunately there wasn't any real damage to the board that couldn't be fixed. That smell though, uuuugh. Went ceramic the whole way, no leaks now!

Oh eff, I really need to take my 190cs display apart and get the caps ordered. Gonna get new caps for the mainboard too, the heat of the SSD is making them go haywire and causing it to crash.

Hm, wondering as well. My 160 has issues with the up/down roller occasionally. It used to be worse, but has actualy gotten a little better with use after being cleaned (it was filthy). Right after cleaning it had trouble going up, but that's subsided a little.

A lot of the caps may not "look" bad, but with the SMD cans like these especially, they tend not to bulge or show obvious visual signs. I replaced the caps in my 160's screen which looked fine at a a glance, but when replacing them there was the unmistakeable smell of leaked electrolytic fluid...

Those bloody resource forks make transfers a pain. A lot of stuff I've found on macintoshgarden is missing them, or otherwise corrupt.

I do need to crack mine open and check, but metered out it was stable. Should throw a scope on the output of my brick and see what the noise is like.

But hey, if dd works then totally just use that and save yourself the trouble. "Properly" preparing a card is a PITA.

If that works, I'd be surprised and also pissed at myself for not trying it earlier. There are a couple of ways to do this. This is the method I recommend if dd doesn't work. It involves booting a Disk Tools floppy on the Powerbook and using that to partition and format the CF card, and then...

Which msata->IDE adapter did you use? I went with the QNINE $15 on Amazon and it only sometimes works. Ordered the $28 fancy-looking one today, hopefully it's better. Using the CF card in my 190cs for now, it definitely gets the job done. Dualbooting 7.6.1 and 8.1 like a champ.

This is kind of the idea I had, using ABS/acetone paste. 

The 180 should have them, similar to the 160.

For anyone interested, if you're considering the SSD solution that FacnyFreddy is recommending, 16GB Sandisk mSATA SSDs are about $8 shipped on eBay right now. http://www.ebay.com/itm/371809716245

Watching this space! I have a 190 that probably needs a PRAM battery replacement.

I've got a Sandisk Extreme 4GB CF card in an IDE adapter in my 190cs right now and it's quite snappy. Miles better than the original drive. Might look into the SSD option later though, I have a 32GB msata sitting around doing nothing. At least I think it's an msata? Might be M.2, will have to...

That screen looks glorious.

Huh, Jeida compliant ATA adapter.. might work? I didn't know you could boot off PC card, that's nifty. Might use that to test out CF image builds.

Oh yeah, the caps in the inverter board are typically electrolytic and can most definitely fail. Just because it's radial doesn't mean anything. I had the "sealed" surface-mount cans that people think are super stable leak out all over the LCD board in my 160. Horrible to clean up.

Huh, vacseal. Never heard of this stuff until now. Cool, was going to ask what people were using to re-seal the screens.