More Power(book) problems (II)

The thing with the AC Power Adapter keeps going South, I'm afraid.
Last night, the cable started to smoke, and smell like hell, so I have to unplugged it, and use the AC Power Adapter from my late and dead iBook, for what I read, it is perfectly safe to use an iBook AC Power Adapter with, or on, a PowerBook, but if the PB's batt gets totally drained, this AC won't charge, since it delivers less wattage.

Anyways, at least I still can use the PB.

Lazarus iBook

Oh well, time for another link of one of those strange iBook repairs.
This time it is not as flamboyant as burning it down, in this case, they simply re-soldered one of the loose pins.

iBook G4 Motherboard Vreg Chip Solder Joint Repair

Comatose iBook extravaganza

And old thread from a friend's blog, with lots of iBook DIY repair tips, all most of them tried and failed on my little iBook friend.
Haven't tested the "fire" one, I'm afraid it could end on a far more bigger disaster than a dead iBook :D

Technical Problems (Or the 26 Cent Solution)

Life Extension for the iBook (?)

I have been looking for any way of recycling the hardware of my late iBook (G3 @ 700 MHz).

It died the Logic Board Death on September 30ht. 2005, I did pull out the HDD, to use it on another crappy laptop, but the thing is, I have invested a lot of money on the little bugger (an extra battery, a new keyboard, RAM, Airport Card); I guess I can easily sell the parts & pieces on the local version of Ebay, Mercado Libre, but I prefer, if possible to find a way to re use the components... Use the LCD, perhaps even the whole case to "hold" a new box... It does not matter if it can't have Os X again.

If anybody knows, and stumbles across this, plese post any useful link.

More than enough Windows

These days I have more Windows than I would like to have it seems...
Had to change the HDD drive on the Sales Manager's laptop, it died the sudden death, without prior notice.

It's a Dell Latitude D610, and I haven't seeing an easier way of pulling out a laptop's HDD on my whole life, I'm completely baffled, there is not a single point of comparison with the ordeal that it was to take out the HDD from my late iBook.
On the Dell, 2 screws, and slide out the HDD "cartridge"...



Update:

One thing that I found really strange -didn't remembered from the last time I did a restore from the factory CD to my Toshiba laptop, years ago- was that this Dell laptop has not one, but 3 restore CDs.

The first one only has the OS, Windows XP Home SP2, which is perfectly fine, except for the fact that after installing the whole thing from that CD, you have to use the CD 2 to get such an essential thing as the integrated NIC to work. since the drivers are on that CD.

From the other side

A little picture from my now dead iBook.
Back on those days, I was runninq Panther, and the (OMG) the MSN version for Apple, what piece of crap that was.
I really loved that small & fragile little white box...

Denial, anger, acceptance

My iBook died the Logic Board Death, on September 30th, 2005. I have tried everything I could to make it breath again (the Reed switch, the "shim" fix, etc) but nothing worked. It is time to move on :)

So, I decided to let it part, disassembly it, and split the pieces for future boxes; the AirPort card went to Thor, my QuickSilver, and the HDD, a 20 GB one, got reassigned to the Compaq Presario. 20 GB is nothing, but the Compaq had a 5 GB one, this one looks amazingly huge.


By following the guide from Ifixit the whole process was easy enough, the only important thing is keeping the order of the removed screws. The toughest screw to remove was one of the two that hold the CD drive in place.
Compared to the iBook, the Compaq Presario took only 5 screws, and less than 20 minutes to disassembly. ITOH, the HDD on the iBook was really, really protected, given the situation; the drive was connected to the iBook but protected with rubber shock absorbers. Not such thing for the Compaq.

The Compaq, once asembled once again, with a whooping 20 GB HDD already up & spinning, and giving it a test drive with Ubuntu (booted from the CD). On the Compaq's screen it is the old iBook partitions, etc.

And the Queen, assembled again as well, as usual, putting it back together again was far more easier than splitting it open. It amazed me how "weak" is, in the end, the whole iBook.

Some (more) old screenshots

Some more screenshots from my late iBook.

Some old screenshots

From my (now) dead iBook, on the last screenshot, already running Tiger.