PowerBook 150 Failure.

[JRL]

I am going to check the IDE connector on every laptop I upgrade from now on!

No, you are going to check any work you do, BEFORE you apply power. Come on, this isn't hard to get right.

Yeah, it's just more than checking the IDE connector. It's applying careful work and keen eyes on ANY thing you do.

 

[Mars478]

Sure thing. Thanks for the help!

 

[JRL]

Sure thing. Thanks for the help!

No thanks needed, it's for your own good.

 

[Quadraman]

I'll take it if you can't fix it. I have two of them with bad LCD screens here.

 

[Mars478]

How much are you willing to pay for it? I can ship it out...

 

[J English Smith]

FYI, I also have two working 150s, one with the display bezel in bad condition, but otherwise fine; the other in good to very good condition. I still have one power supply too. Be happy to make a deal for either of them...something like $20 solo plus actual shipping or $30 for both plus shipping comes to mind...

J.

 

[Mars478]

Well, I plugged it in today for giggles, and whaddya know, I got a chime and the mouse screen. I get varying results though, like sometimes i get chimes of death, and once or twice I get a black screen. But most of the times i get a screen with a cursor.

Ideas?

 

[Paralel]

RAM went to hell?

In my Classic, when one of the RAM modules went to hell I saw the same behavior. Each boot was a crap shoot.

 

[techknight]

your going to have to take a magnifying glass and light to the logic board. the smoke may had very well come from a circuit trace opening up like a fuse. seen it a few times. if it was an IC of any sorts, if it didnt boot the first time, it would never boot again.

I think you opened a circuit trace somewhere... need to locate and repair it.