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If you take the display housing apart, let me know the part number of the screen. Would be great for this index I've been assembling: https://macdat.net/extras/powerbooklcdindex.html

I'm going to update this thread real quick: It "works" now. I haven't recapped the DC board yet, but I do believe I need to. It turns out that the RAM expansion module was improperly seated. I fixed this and it starts again, but after running for a few minutes, it won't boot again if I shut it...

Yeah well I even zoomed in and moved around the picture trying to figure it out 😅

Ah, how did I miss that

what's the mod in this image?

VCF forums somewhere?

I don’t know the next thing about how biodegradable plastics work, but that brings up thoughts of micro plastic issues… those probably don’t though. but yeah, plastic stinks. The one laptop I can sleep easy about is my Latitude CS. Its back display housing is made of magnesium, meaning it won’t...

Ooh, yeah, that’s an issue. Might want to give that another cleaning and touch up the solder joints.

I've had a similar thing happen with my iMac G5. It had finished burning a CD for me, then ejected it all the way to the floor.

No info on what to probe unfortunately, board-level diagnostics is where my skills reach their limits. I'd just recap the board and then troubleshoot further from there. Your issue a one known to be caused by bad caps.

The caps on both my working power boards did also look slightly bulged, probably a sign of age and impending failure. Luckily they don't seem to be leaking (yet), just drying out hopefully? Get them replaced and it may come back. You probably have one or more out of spec power rail due to it...

You could get a cable I’m sure that hooks up to the scsi to sd and the port. I’d say the easiest thing to do if to just pull the hard drive and put it in a newer IDE mac (if you have one) that has USB.

Not sure.

I think the OS shouldn’t need any drivers to use it?

That is the GLoD. Yes, check the power connector again, but the power board is also known to be at fault for this.

I’d invest in a USB card for it, it would make file transfer much easier. Make sure it’s Mac compatible though, I havent looked into the requirements for that before.

If it’s chiming then I doubt the barrel jack is at fault honestly, it either gets power or it doesn’t. I’d be looking toward the power board.

My first bet would be the DC power board (module with all the caps on it), they do go bad from what I've heard. I've had abnormally good luck with my 5300 units, both at least booted correctly (though had power-unrelated issues). I've got mine mostly recapped now (just gotta get one cap on the...

Old CD-ROM drives can indeed be incredibly picky about properly reading burned disks. In particular, my 12" iBook G3 Snow has immense difficulty booting from burned CDs, which made it an absolute nightmare to get Tiger installed on when I got it (was in 2020 and I didn't have nearly as many...

8.4.1 is as far as you can go on an iPad 3 unfortunately, no further untethered unless you've dumped the SHSH blobs of a previous version in the past. What are SHSH blobs? Basically, Apple is a giant evil corporation. To prevent users from downgrading their devices to whatever iOS version they...