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Plastics and hinges are shot from the looks but it could make a good parts unit if nothing on the boards got damaged.

If it's something obscure without much info online, I may also need specifications. Below is an example of my format for specs, with the example of the Dell Latitude C600: Release Date: 2000 CPU: Intel Pentium III M @750, 850, or 1.0GHz Chipset: Intel Mobile 440BX PCI RAM: Officially up to...

Here’s some of mine. 1. The main desk. On the right, my main laptop, currently closed. On top and open is my modded ThinkPad T430 with my website code up. To the left of that I’ll usually have a couple of my vintage laptops out. Right now it’s my Compaq LTE Elite 4/75CX and my WinBook FX...

Hello to anyone who's reading this! I run MacDat, a website dedicated to preserving online info on vintage Macintosh hardware, and on vintage PC Laptop hardware. My eventual very long-term goal is to document just about every laptop released in the 1990s. Who knows if I'll ever get there, but...

Post photos of your LCD and the ribbons that go from the boards around the LCD to the glass panel itself.

So then… is there no way to get it to playback then?

The MacFilm one was weird - I had grabbed a copy of the Bad Apple converted video straight from the website, never left a mac in the transfer process, but it is an unrecognized "file" and MacFilm wouldn't play it back. https://www.macflim.com/ I downloaded the zip file option though, maybe I...

Worked fine on some stuffit files. Did not work on system extensions and MacFilm files (the second of which is probably expected, it’s a small piece of software)

Posting here now from my PowerBook G4 DLSD. Pretty slow but it's still doable to use the forums on it. The reason I'm here is that I'm bridging the beta over to a classic Mac OS system using it which I'll then test it out on. Let's see if it will recover the "forked" (haha) copies of FrameMaker...

That's great and all until you touch one of the LC III socketed DIP chips you reseated incorrectly and give yourself a nasty peeling burn! Don't ask me how I know.

Sounds like an alignment issue there with your repair. Yes, send photos when you can.

It should sit correctly under normal circumstances. Sounds like the alignment is off on your plastic fixes.

You have a later revision power supply without ELNA caps, the ones that fail most frequently. Still, seems they were bad based on the bad voltages. Start the system with the hard drive disconnected now that you have power and then see if you get a question mark. Bad SCSI drives can hold up the...

There will be leakage under the caps most likely, it's probably just fresh enough not to have corroded anything yet. If it's in that good of shape, then yes, it will likely be good again after a recap. Post photos of both sides of the PSU board too, that will be helpful.

Try whatever you’ve got. With what you’ve said now though, you’re not gonna get a chime. Your PSU is bad. It shouldn’t ever drop from 7.5V or thereabouts.

You can recap it, yes. Thing is that they're a royal pain to crack open, the ELNA caps' leakage inside is a huge pain to clean up, and when you're done there's a well under 100% chance it will work right. I've had a stone-dead OEM supply for almost 2 years now that I still haven't gotten around...

Yeah, that PSU is bad, and likely your problem. Go get yourself a modern supply off Amazon and I'll bet that the 170 fires right up.

Also try plugging in headphones and seeing if you’re getting chime out of them. If you are, it’s likely a bad interconnect board. I’ll ask again though - you said you’re “pretty sure” the PSU is good - do you have another system to test with? If not, absolutely test it with a multimeter. The...

PowerBook 140 and 170 motherboard are the same. Interconnect board is the one with the gray ribbon cable, speaker, and battery attached. Again though, have you verified that your PSU works? That is the number one issue that keeps these from starting, those PSUs always have bad capacitors.

If PSU is known-good, next suspect for me would be the interconnect board cable. They’re notorious for going bad and producing this sort of inconsistent behavior and issues.