broken powerbook pics
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- mitsu
so i figured i'd grab a couple of broken powerbooks off of ebay and blow some time taking them apart to try to fix them. here are the fruits of my labor:
this powerbook would boot up but you couldn't see the screen.
i had another that booted up and had a working screen, but the hinges had been broken off completely. you can see the screen from that one hooked up to the powerbook with the non-working screen (or so i thought it was non-working)
http://www33.brinkster.com/trans…
when i hooked the screen up, i got the exact same behavior: none! so my deduction was that both lcd's worked fine, but there was an internal problem (probably with the mobo or inverter board or something). at any rate, i took the screen off of the problem powerbook and assembled it to the powerbook which had broken hinges on its screen. putting these together gave me a cosmetically perfect powerbook.... now let's hit the power and see what happens:
http://www33.brinkster.com/trans…
porkchop sandwiches!!! it worked!!!
- Peter0
congrats
- unknown0
so how much did you spend on it?
- ********0
how much coin these 2 macs cost you?
- mitsu0
together i paid about a grand.
- mitsu0
(which is just a bit more than i can get for just one working one)
- unknown0
except you have an extra LCD that you could probably sell on ebay.
- mitsu0
no, i'll find out what's wrong with the other powerbook (i'm really thinking it's the logic board) and just get that fixed and have another working powerbook to sell.
as much fun as this is, i don't know if i'll make a hobby out of it as these things are HARD to take apart and put back together... HARD!
- mitsu0
and a quick word of advice to anyone who would like to try this:
make sure you get powerbook parts that were made for powerbooks of the same processor speed. i was quite amazed at how many revisions were made from a 400 to a 550.although, many parts, such as cd/dvd rom, hard drives, memory and lcd's should always be the same.
keyboard, logic boards, heat sink assembly, etc could potentially be different.
- tfs__mag0
cheers mitsu, now i feel like i paid waaaaay to much for my 15' powerbook!
- mitsu0
did you get the Ti or newer Al model?