POWERBOOK SCREEN NO GO!
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- usrper
hey guys,
I'm freaking out here... the screen of my powebook G4 (bought 3 years ago) is giving me sporatic flashes of blackout... started 10 mins ago and now flashing more and more.....
WTF is wrong??? I can't afford this...
- usrper0
great! 5 mins after writing this the screen just dies on me.
- MrD0
you need new screen
talk to a genius?
- jox0
Sorry to hear that man, thatsucks.
I've had my fair share of PB problems myself. What I can tell you is that a new screen is one of those things that are managable to install on your own and they're not *that* expensive really.
I got a 15" a few years back in some backdoor chop shop for about 800 bucks. (Swedish, but our currency rate to HK is exactly the same, so.... :)
- MrD0
jason, i think u need a new machine, you want my 12 inch?
you can borrow it. see if that helps
shoot me an email
but dont delete my porn in there
- minimalista0
I've seen screens for sale on ebay.
- Drno0
3 years old,
man just buy a new one, the screen will probabl cost you one third of the price of a new machine
- tank020
screen is about 1/3 of the price yes..my powerbook screen was yellow at the end..
i have the feeling 3 years is somewhat the age those suckas get...
- madirish0
personally, i would take it apart and check the cold solder joints on the video card to see if those have cracked (due to heat cycles sometimes). it is easy machine to open (#8 hex and a fine-tip phillips head i think does it) and you can see if that is the issue. if so, that can be re-done very inexpensively. if not it, prolly the wiring that has cracked.
the screens in those are excellent. it is the connections to them that fail 99% of the time.
HTH
- Gucci0
sorry to hear that, man.
my screen did the same thing a year and a half ago.
- usrper0
thanks for the input guys. sucks that the screen is 1/3 of the price. i dont feel like getting a new computer at all, i mean other than this the thing works ok, and for some reason i still feel like i just bought it yesterday..
anyway ill get it figured out. thanks!
- Nairn0
Nice advice, madirish.
If your tech is beyond warranty, an you're not too incompetent, I'd always recommend opening the fucker up to have a quick peek-see, just in case it's a manageable fault. If not, no harm done - send it off and get it fixed.
- k0na_an0k0
might not be your screen. it may be your cooling fans for the cpu, which is overheating and shutting itself down.
try the lesser of the two evils first. have the fans looked at. hopefully that's the problem.
- ribit0
I've also had the cables screw up... can be as little as $20 to fix.. but then that was a black Powerbook G3 a long time ago in a land far far away (Michigan).