I have been very lucky to find a PowerBook 180 with a screen that doesn't (yet) suffer the tunnel vision issue. However, after manipulating it (mainly to work on the BlueSCSI) it now refuses to boot. It makes the normal chime and straight after, it makes the chime of death while the screen remains dark.
The original drive was dead so I installed a BlueSCSI inside. I had to open it several times to setup the SD card correctly and ended up having issues with the cable between the up and bottom part of the laptop. That affected the display and the keyboard. I ended up finding an angle where the cable would have a correct connection. At that point the PowerBook was almost usable but kept crashing randomly. Crashes were a lot more frequent when using the network through the BlueSCSI WiFi feature. The browser would always crash after 1 or 2 minutes.
Today, I transferred some files from another Mac to the PowerBook through Appletalk with the WiFi connection. After the transfer completed, I tried to open an app and it said that there was no more memory. Closing the dialog box made the laptop to crash. I tried to reboot but I keep having the chime of death after the normal chime.
I tried removing the RAM expansion card and even the BlueSCSI, but I keep getting the same result.
I noticed some time ago that the power socket was a bit lose in the inside and moving the cable could power off the device, so I made sure I had the laptop always sitting flat on the desk with nothing touching the cable. However, could a bad connection from the power socket damage something on the board?
Thanks for your help anyway, that is a great machine that I would like to repair.
The original drive was dead so I installed a BlueSCSI inside. I had to open it several times to setup the SD card correctly and ended up having issues with the cable between the up and bottom part of the laptop. That affected the display and the keyboard. I ended up finding an angle where the cable would have a correct connection. At that point the PowerBook was almost usable but kept crashing randomly. Crashes were a lot more frequent when using the network through the BlueSCSI WiFi feature. The browser would always crash after 1 or 2 minutes.
Today, I transferred some files from another Mac to the PowerBook through Appletalk with the WiFi connection. After the transfer completed, I tried to open an app and it said that there was no more memory. Closing the dialog box made the laptop to crash. I tried to reboot but I keep having the chime of death after the normal chime.
I tried removing the RAM expansion card and even the BlueSCSI, but I keep getting the same result.
I noticed some time ago that the power socket was a bit lose in the inside and moving the cable could power off the device, so I made sure I had the laptop always sitting flat on the desk with nothing touching the cable. However, could a bad connection from the power socket damage something on the board?
Thanks for your help anyway, that is a great machine that I would like to repair.
