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Well I attempted to format a disk with the drive and it fails the format during the verification process. Verdict, dead?

Well, when I get fed up with my portable, you might have your chance at it again, techknight! :p Glad you got it going! It must be nice to have a fully working portable, I'm still trying to get my backlit completely working again. Getting closer with every repair!

Nice lot you attained there! That's what usually happens to me, but I walk out with extra stuff anywhere I go. I went to the thrift store to get a tie for work, walked out with a dozen LP records!

Guess I have bad luck with supplies :( atx supplies I work on always seem to have at least one mosfet burned up.

I am no expert, but from what I understand, heat is the issue with the logic boards, or was with mine. The chipset is a BGA chip with solder balls/pads on the bottom of it instead of pins. With the am out of heat the g5 generates, the solder joints on the chip start to soften and flex, some even...

Caps arrived today, screen working like new again! Will post pix tomorrow. New problem, the floppy drive won't read anything. I disassembled and cleaned and lived it, also cleaned off the heads and no change. Anyone have a replacement set of heads or a drive they would like to get rid of on the...

Well dark, I should have thought of that! I ended up putting this 160 keyboard I got, on the 140. It has less wear and less yellowing. Caps are due in on Saturday, sounds like Sunday I will have some time at the repair bench to get this all finished. I will be using the 140 to format the 120mb...

Awesome! Great job getting it working and congrats on a successful resurrection of a dead device! Now it has some significant personal value, and its something you can take pride in! This thread helped me get my brother in-law's ps3 working on his sdtv. I remembered someone posting that the...

If anyone needs keys for a PowerBook 1xx keyboard, let me know. The only one I need is the number 9 key!

No kidding! On my first laptop, PowerBook 160, I remember the screen being green with a lot of ghosting. I was expecting the same with this. Why was the lighting green on the 160 i had?

And last but not least, some photos of the repair(s) These are the temporary replacement caps until the new ones arrive: I replaced the cap on the far right of the image below with a new tantalum that I had lying around. I didn't have any other caps to do the rest of the screen, so this...

This is how the screen was from the get go. In the right lighting, you could navigate the OS. After replacing the two capacitors on the inverter board with some good used caps, I was able to get an image, but nothing that could be readable with a dark background or a lot of black displayed on...

Using 91% IPA, I got the case all cleaned up without maring or scratching any of the plastics. Came out quite well! The front edge where it looks like it was melted does bug me, I'll have to keep my eyes out for display plastics now! I also have a parts keyboard on the way, which I will use...

Alright, here are some pictures! Here is the laptop in the condition it was in when I got it. Must have been a students laptop...

Alright. I went and replaced the 100uf cap on the LCD display and it's better now, but still having shadows/lines of any open windows, spread across the screen. I ordered new caps for everything in the PowerBook off Mouser, as wells as some new caps for my Portable (all tants this time). I will...

Smells like freshly baked electronics.....and progress! :)

I'm not having much luck finding caps that will fit, even in aluminum canister package type....anyone have any experiance here? Techknight or uniserver maybe?

Well, I replaced the two caps on the inverter and I got some brightness back, but it is only decent with bright desktop backgrounds. Anything like the standard grey makes the image dim. The brightness of the image is judged by how much black is being displayed. Is it time to move onto the caps...

One more question. Are the Duo key caps the same as the 1xx? I have a spare duo 230 keyboard but the 140 is missing a key.

How many caps am I looking at, for replacement? A dozen or so on the LCD and a dozen on the logic? I would like to make this an all tantalum repair, honestly. no more worrying about them all together.