[muglo] The Powerbook story

From: doug rogers <dougsamu@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Online MUGLO <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:31:07 -0500

Hello! This powerbook, hobbling along on one good leg, is finally 
working reliably. It need a few things yet to be 100% but it works 
finally. It was indeed a chain of things gone wrong.

The Adaptor was indeed screwed up. With the help of an 800 number call 
to APPLE (Thanks, Larry Hill!). A replacement adaptor was Purred out 
the next day.

Also the battery is dead, so it was frustrating to get power to the 
thing to trouble shoot.

Also the 2 gig drive is damaged too. Will start the boot up sequence 
but won't continue.

And the 14" TFT LCD monitor has damaged connector pins so was 
delivering a scrambled image. The other Passive Matrix monitor seems 
overexposed and kind of burned in at the same time. And with some 
inaccessible software settings (we couldn't see what was going on!) 
there was a seemingly impossible but tantalizingly solvable puzzle.

So it was indeed a whole slew of different things.

The bezel and ribbons are good on the 14" TFT, but I would like to 
replace the display portion of the screen, and find a new battery and 
CD drive, though these things aren't urgent

The Powerbook will draw to an exterior monitor, so when I can hack 
together some kind of desk arrangement, I can replace the Performa for 
the kids.

  And I have a spare motherboard and power adaptor card to sell to 
disperse some costs. I am optimistic at this point.

  There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
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