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That would be awesome dude!

Hi guys, Today I picked up a Powerbook 520c in great shape. The only thing wrong with it is a broken charger cable (which I'll fix sometime in the next few weeks) and a missing hinge cover. It seems like somebody used it on a different one on which the hinge cover had broken thanks to a broken...

This is great guys! Does anyone have the full model of the display clutch cover though? I just bought a Powerbook 520c and it's clutch cover is completely missing.

If it doesn't work it's yours. Mind making me one if the bodge doesn't work?;)

I'll do that, thanks. I don't think the bodge wire would work, as it broke right at the point where it flexes the most, but I'll give it a shot.

Well, I found the issue. The display cable has ripped a bit thanks to a broken clutch cover. The left five traces are broken (the ones seperated by a bit more plastic than the rest). So I guess the next question I'm asking is, does anyone have a display cable for me?

Thanks for the link! I think I might leave this one for a professional though, because I don't think my soldering skills are up to par to actually be able to recap it.

I don't know. It has been stored in a sunny place I think, judging from how greenish it looks and how all rubber parts feel like snot. I picked it up from a house clearer, but he didn't really seem like a guy who was very careful with sensitive electronics. The PSU it came with is absolutely...

Awww that's a shame. What display would I need and where could I get one?

Hi, My powerbook 100 has an issue where it only shows a dark screen, with a snowflake like glitch in the middle (picture included). The PSU is a known good one, as it powers my Powerbook 150 just fine, so it's probably dead caps. Which part of the machine should I have a look at first?

Hi, I have recently aquired this nearly mint Powerbook 180, but the display is having errors(See the included picture in the thread). It's not the display cable or the actual lcd itself, as the amount of lines varies every time I try to power it on, so some caps on the display controller board...

Thanks for all the help man! I found out that someone in my neighbourhood was selling an old Mac Mini, so I grabbed that and tried to do it from El Capitan, which didn't work, so I guess I'll need to look for a copy of Mac OS Server somewhere.

Thanks for the offer, but no. Postage will probably be ridiculously expensive as I live in the Netherlands and I think burning a disc just to use once is kind of a waste. Besides, I just really want to figure the whole Netboot thing out, as it seems no one has really tried this before.

Technically it should, but mine doesn't. I did some more digging and found out that the Powermac G5 7,3 (my model), is apparently really finnicky when it comes to booting from USB. It almost never works on this model.

Jup, by the way I kinda made progress with my USB, it now gives me a prohibited sign when I access it through open firmware. Still, I had this on my Powerbook G4 titanium as well, and I ended up just using a Ubuntu disk I had laying around (which I haven't found yet, so that is not an option)...

I know that much, since I have used the same method on my MDD with great success. In any case, I still want to use netboot, but have yet to figure out how, so any help would be much appreciated.

That's the issue, I tried that already and it wouldn't work. When I checked I saw OpenFirmware wouldn't recognise it. If OF won't recognise it, the boot selector won't either, because it's basically a gui on top of OF.

Hi guys, I have this Powermac G5 sitting around that I want to make a bit more useful. Currently it is running 10.3.9, but I want to either install 10.5.8 or linux. Now here's the issue: I don't have easy access to dvds and none of the USB thumbdrives I own seem to work with OpenFirmware (they...

Thanks! What about the outer diameter though, is that the same on both jacks? 5.5mm?

Hi guys, I just bought a powerbook 180 but it came without a charger. Since an original is either super expensive or expensive to ship where I live, and a Sony Psone brick which has the right specs(7,5 Volts, 2 amps, right polarity) isn't, I was wondering if anyone has any experience using it...