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Nothing visually off on either.

I tried to rebuild two PowerBook 500 Series batteries. What could go wrong? Well, I didn't light anything on fire which is a good start, but I don't have working batteries either. I used pre-built 8-cell AA NiMH packs that @jmacz on 68kmla already used successfully on his own rebuilds. Both...

Nice system, those iBook G4s are rock-solid machines that can run forever. An SSD upgrade would get you more space and faster performance, but taking apart one of these is not for the faint of heart unfortunately. They're a royal pain. Go ahead and check out InterWebPPC for a relatively up to...

Looks great :)

That's the first time I've heard of morphos. Looks nice, linux-based I'd assume? Compatibility list shows that it should work on my G4 DLSD. Sounds like something to try once I've gotten it upgraded to an SSD! Maybe I should go buy that SSD.

Perhaps I'll finally work up the courage to replace the thermal paste on one or even all three of my PowerBook G4s. At least my 17" DLSD. Could be fun to see how much I could get done on said DLSD. Or I could set up the G5 tower for some serious heavy lifting. We'll see.

Cheap Amazon batteries are no better than cheap eBay batteries.

Probably some JB weld interfering with the hinge fitment. Can you post a photo of the rightmost standoff, same style as your photo right above this message?

Report to eBay? These cheap laptop battery sellers aren't known to provide great products or services. Probably a lost cause.

I saw your T1000 video that you had up on your twitter and saw what a pain that was to fix - man. Just another thing that's gonna make laptops harder to collect in the future. We're all gonna eventually need to get good at doing these repairs or we're screwed. Given enough time, storage...

no solder joints look cracked.

I finally got the PSU board out of the case now, and yeah, it's had work done... Nothing looks too bad though. Vertical board looks REALLY iffy, but I don't think an issue there would cause my symptoms. Anything obvious stand out? I don't think the two HV caps have been changed. Could those be...

Same boat... Got mine already recapped and was working fine, then it shut off one day. Will start with the hard drive unplugged still, but even then makes a whining noise, and won't stay on with the hard drive. If I'm lucky I'll get as far as a chime before it shuts off again. I hope it's just...

Post a photo of the hinge mount from a front-on perspective where we can see down the hole. Sounds like you messed the alignment up when repairing it.

General troubleshooting mainly. 1. Open the base, being extremely careful not to bend the interconnect cable when disconnecting it. 2. Check for anything obviously wrong. 3. Check for battery corrosion 4. Remove the motherboard and check both sides thoroughly for any signs of corrosion, burn...

That means you have a screen issue or a logic issue bottom-side. If you had a bad hard drive that was holding up the SCSI bus, you would at least be getting a cursor.

Are you getting a cursor?

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...