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Yeah sure, i'd love a similar solution for the SE - probably a little easier given the fact it's 1-bit video. I'm not a CRT Purist - as long as its functional and it looks the same - this can serve to save more machines that have duff analogue boards/failing flybacks, but good logic boards...

Yeah you can fix it, literally just need to remove the failed polariser layer, clean the panel and reapply a new polarising film. That being said, it's probably pretty easy to source a replacement panel, as there are only a handful of manufacturers - will probably be either LG, AUO, Samsung...

Because.... Why not? 😂

Just wanted to weigh in here, with regards to anyone thinking of posting here as an alternative, please see our infrastructure overview to get an idea of how TD is setup as a site and what we have in place on the back end. https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/infrastructure-overview-2021.670/

Looks to be an MFM drive. I'd bet that you're right @JDW in that the drive needs to be low level formatted first.

I'd love to see the end results!

The pdf is in the resource section.

DosFox on the TD discord reverse engineered the SND chip, check there, the schematics and gerbers may be open source.

Would help to know where you're based - due to tarriffs putting the kibosh on international shipping right now, makes sense to recommend services as local as possible.

IIRC @This Does Not Compute tried this with a 540c and....no luck.

Go for it!

Hi - I merely posted the link, i've not used the tools - check the link itself in the initial post, which will send you to GitHub and explain more than this thread.

Checkerboard like that indicates that the CPU is running, it's not being held in RESET and the ROM is working - you're experiencing a RAM issue. Check all the RAM SIMM's are installed correctly, and the jumper is left OPEN unless you're using 256k SIMM's

At this point I'd order replacement chips and transistors, they're pennies each.

These guys are pretty good, they have the panels you need, too: https://www.applemacparts.co.uk/powerbook/powerbook-pre-g3/powerbook-pre-g3-100-series/powerbook-pre-g3-100-series-145/powerbook-145-145b-160-165-lcd-display?special_filter_category=75 I believe @Androda makes compatible cables for...

This gives me hope for my own 180!

Oh I do like that as a design, looks like IKEA should sell that, even now.

Correct. The same SWIM is used in the: SE/30 IIx IIcx IIci IIsi Macintosh Classic Quadra 700 There are a few other models too, but can't be certain off the top of my head.

I never installed it because I checked the winding first.