Recent content by jdoctinker

Just a quick follow-up: the auto-restart issue turned out to be an easier fix than anticipated- there were a couple of ‘dirty’ areas on the board. Some gentle scrubbing with a toothbrush and 99% isopropyl alcohol cured the ghost restarts!

I’m glad I found this thread! I recently acquired 3 Mac Portables, all non-backlit screen versions. Two were in excellent condition (one was given to me by a friend, and had only been used for about 3 months, then stored- it‘s in excellent shape!). I recapped all 3 boards with cap kits from...

Finally got a chance to put these together. Ordered the PCB’s from JLCPCB.com, with a stencil. Took the chips from some RAM modules using hot air gun (Very easy to do). Built a reflow oven with the Whizoo Contreleo3 (https://whizoo.com/products/controleo3-reflow-oven-controller)- works great...

Hello all, I acquired a PowerBook 100, in very good condition. I cold-started it, and the screen lit up, hard drive came on, then off- like the old Conner drives would do. The brightness knob worked as expected, but the contrast knob did nothing. I opened it, took out the hard drive, and...