Recent content by mac27

After spending nearly $200 on this repair and waiting nearly 2 months cumulatively for various parts, in addition to all the frustration and energy spent, I am not exactly in the mood for adventure at the moment. Lol. Maybe someday.

After a break from this project over the holidays I went ahead and snipped the (very tiny) plastic tabs/ridges off of the connector on the cable harness and got the new panel reinstalled back into the iBook once again. Ta-da ... Worked like a charm. No fried motherboard or lack of video...

Well, finally a step back in the right direction. Got the replacement motherboard installed and I have an iBook with operational display again (granted it is the original panel with the vinegar syndrome, but still a huge improvement). So I am now more or less back to where I started. It is...

No worries. One popped up on the 'bay for like 30 bucks yesterday so I nabbed it ... should be here next week.

This is excellent, many thanks @François ! While these are the French versions, the part numbers (apart from the F prefixes) all matched up with what I have in CompleteSet, and your later G4 Cube disc packet helped fill in a remaining hole. I will also add the Lockable Cable Fastener to the G4...

I see. I'm in a similar group with the same name but with "... or Buy" on the end. I can't even find this one by search so that's a bummer.

Unfortunately I am just getting an error when I try to visit this link - possible to share a different way?

Well unfortunately I've had no luck sourcing a replacement motherboard, so this machine and project are dead in the water until that happens. If anybody has a spare 366 MHz (or 466 MHz) FireWire iBook clamshell mobo they'd be willing to sell, or even a parts machine with one installed, let me know.

I see, that is good info. Presumably it had a SuperDrive? I was aware Apple was packing-in blank DVD-R discs with the towers equipped with them, but that's the first I've heard of it for a notebook. If you can provide the part number that'd be much appreciated.

The third and final portion of CompleteSet is now live, the "Documentation" category: This portion has been the trickiest of the three to pull together, and still needs a lot of work to fill in missing information. If you own a complete G3-G5 system and are willing to contribute information...

Well this was today's pickup ... an Xserve RAID in the box, along with the PCI card that's required to operate it with the G4/G5/Xserve. Definitely not something I ever thought I'd ever own, but a fellow collector in the local area was offering it at a price I couldn't say no to. I've never...

i assume you mean that just the display stopped working? On mine everything else still works (drives, caps lock light, speaker/chime) but just the display is impacted.

I've been going back and forth with the seller, and they suggested this. It makes me a bit nervous, as that also assumes there are also no OTHER differences between the panels (🤷🏼‍♂️) but unless anyone sees an issue with doing that, it's what I'll try next once I get a replacement motherboard.

I noticed a few weeks back that the display panel on one of my clamshells was beginning to succumb to vinegar syndrome. So after consulting with others more familiar with these than myself, I ordered a new replacement panel from the 'bay, making extra certain to match the original panel...

Today I am launching "Phase II" of CompleteSet, the "Accessories & Peripherals" category: I got good feedback from folks over email and elsewhere online from "Phase I" (software discs), and I've incorporated this feedback into the construction of this second phase. I thank everyone for your...