Getting a Macintosh Portable back to live.....

[uniserver]

 beautiful!

 

[techknight]

So either the cable is bad, or the screen itself is bad then. 

Glad it works though. 

 

[mactjaap]

Opened the old screen. It is the cable! It is broken. Just a little, but that is enough.

I switches the good cable to the "dead" screen and it works perfect!

I wonder.....are these cables somewhere for sale? In that case I could maybe restore the second one too.

 

[techknight]

If it is a non-backlit cable... You can make a new one pretty easily using an old ultra-ATA cable, cut it down, and re-crimp back onto the connectors. 

I did this once already. 

 

[mactjaap]

OK! But I have seen that the second one has a non working motherboard. Probably needs to be recapped. It is doing something, but not complete.

 

[techknight]

yup

 

[CC_333]

I mentioned this earlier in this thread, but it'd be wonderful if someone would make new cables for the backlit Portables (M5126). Mine has a good picture, but no backlight, due to a rip in the cable :-/

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