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Hello, I have an iBook Clamshell with a screen that seems abnormally dim. I read that over time the CCFL backlights inside LCDs gradually dim as they wear out. I did a bit of poking about online and found some kits that seem to be able to replace the existing CCFL modules inside old displays...

There is a book that Apple published called "Guide to the Macintosh Family Hardware". It has quite a bit of documentation for the ADB protocol (among other things), so it might be useful for your project. I think there is probably a copy on the Internet Archive somewhere.

If I understand correctly, I think the sounds the computer is making mean that it is crashing shortly after starting up. My best guess is that there is still a broken trace somewhere on your board. It sounds like there was some considerable capacitor leakage, so it is very possible that...

You should make sure your multimeter can do continuity measurements. This means that it beeps when the two probes are touching.  I think that this board could probably be repaired. As to whether or not the amount of time, money, and effort required to fix the board are worth it, well, that's...

I cannot see anything connected to the pad highlighted in red. It probably was just an extra pin included in the chip package. If this is correct (others please correct me if I'm wrong) you should be fine without it.

These computers come with a special bracket to attach the drives together. I sold my dual floppy SE, so I can't provide a picture, but I am sure someone else here can take a picture.

I think you can do this with an mSATA to 2.5" IDE converter and a cheap mSATA SSD. This should also be cheaper than the product sold by OWC...

I'm waiting for another battery pack to arrive in the mail at the moment, but as soon as I make a working battery, I promise to make a thread detailing the (more difficult than expected) process. ...OK -I'll describe the melted battery here too. :) What happened is that after I spot-welded the...

The method exists, but unfortunately, there is a lot of conflicting information that goes around when dealing with the 18650 batteries. There are several videos showing people soldering directly to the cells to rebuild iBook batteries, but according to the manufacturers of the batteries, this is...

Thank you! I'll buzz out all of the connections from the VRAM ICs and the ROM, and report back. This might take a while, I think there must be over one hundred places to test!

I am in the midst of this exact project right now! :) In theory, this is true. In practice, I have found that it would have been far easier, safer, and cheaper to just have purchased a commercial battery pack from Newegg. The 18650 cells can be very dangerous and frustrating to work with. If...

I'm not sure if anyone saw this post the first time around, so I'm bumping it in case anyone has some ideas about how to repair this motherboard. There are a few more things I could try (see above), but otherwise, this board has me stumped. If anyone has suggestions about how to fix this logic...

<semi-relevant tangent> I have the 5.1 with a full-size SD card slot. Maybe the problem is that I used a Micro SD to full-size SD card adapter inline with the extension? I'll have to see if I get better results with a full-size SD to a full-size SD extension. If a product like this fixes...

This is a really large flash drive to use with such an old iBook! The clamshells only have USB 1 which is really slow, but I still don't think this is normal behavior. Maybe it would help to reformat the drive using disk utility on the iBook? I think with a drive of this capacity, things get a...

Hmm... I actually tried that same product too, but it did not work for me. I wonder if it has something to do with the SCSI2SD models behaving differently. I did my experimenting with a SCSI2SD V5.1. Did you use another model or the same one?

I have purchased a few of these extenders, but they have all proven to be incredibly unreliable. They sometimes work okay with my modern computers, but I have never successfully gotten one to work with my Macintoshes, unfortunately. Over the years I have purchased and returned several with no...

There is no need to take the laptop apart for ethernet, nor a need for a USB dongle. There is already an ethernet port you can use on the side of the computer. If you plug an ethernet cable between this port and your router, you will be online.  I mentioned a wireless ethernet repeater, as you...

I'd love to be a tester! How can I access the beta image?

Impressive work! I have yet to get one of my battery damaged boards to work, despite having the tools and soldering skills. One day...

This is more a matter of whether you should do it, not if you can do it. If you configure your router to not use any encryption (or an outdated standard of encryption), it will definitely work, but this is usually an all around bad idea as it exposes all of your network to neighbors, hackers...