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you have to be lucky to find a good powerbook 100 screen. Most panels have pink spots. I have several bad one’s with this issue. The cheaper option is probably looking for a faulty pb100 that still has a good screen. It’s like with the tunel vision issues on the active matrix screens of the...

Not only the powerbook 170 and 180 screens have this but also the Duo 250,280 and Powerbook 540. It’s a real disaster. From what I can tell, it‘s not related to usage as I had spare screens of both a pb170 and a duo 250 new in an unopened Apple spare parts box, bought many years ago and guess...

Thanks, I had that file but must have looked over it… Does anyone have a schematic for the blacklight model M5126 ? My board does look clean as I don’t see IC’s from the sound circuit with capacitor goo or corrosion on the pins but as Bolle said it’s probably under them. Maybe Bolle has a...

My Backlit portable starts with a normal chime and after a few seconds I get the chimes of death with a sad mac error code 00000003 0000000F The portable is fully recapped a few years ago, board was fully cleaned with pure IPA at the time. Power adapter is the original white one, also fully...

Hi Bolle, In have exactly the same problem. Can you tell me which ICs you desoldered ? It‘s pitty there are no schematics for the mac portable. What temperature do you set your hot air station for desoldering on these boards ? I set mine at 340 celcius and speed 50%.