Yes, I agree. I can now get the thing apart in about 15 minutes and I found a
way to replace the AC card without a full disassembly. The Pismo is certianly
the last of its kind as far as easy repair and with not so expensive parts.
Often it is AC sound card that dies and then the Pismo is sold for a pittance
and the new owner pops the new card in and has more years of use. Right now,
Pismos are selling slowly and for alot less money since we have this financial
spiral. I have to place several ads before one sells now!Jeff> Date: Fri, 13
Feb 2009 14:52:50 +0900> To: [email protected]> From:
[email protected]> Subject: Re: PowerBook Pismo> > > At 5:24 PM -0800
2/12/09, The Wizard65 wrote:>>I just recently purchased a G3 PowerBook Pismo,
and I'm severely>>impressed on It's performance.Of course I also read that it
has a down>>side, the AC/Sound board. Since it out performs my 1.8ghz
Compaq>>Laptop, I can live with the fact that I will need to buy a
replacement>>before it goes on me. Would anyone care to comment on this> > I'm
not entirely clear on something here--are you just preemptively > worrying
about the AC/Sound board going bad and expecting that it > WILL happen, or did
you obtain knowing that the board in question was > ALREADY flakey? If it's
the former, then relax, you've probably got > better things to worry about! :-)
If it goes bad, it goes bad.> > Life counseling aside, the AC/Sound board
_did_ go bad on my Pismo > after about 5 or 6 years of use. It's a bit of a
pain in the > you-know-what to replace since you have to remove every single >
component to get at it, including the LCD (though at least you don't > have to
disassemble the LCD itself). Took me about 4-5 hours of work > to do the job
with a good 7 or 8 bowls and cups to hold all the > screws. But at least I
didn't wind up with a "spare" screw at the > end of the job like I did with my
iBook G4. That was about 3 years > ago and it's still going strong.> > FWIW.>
> Carl> -- > > **********> > Carl Freire> cfreire /[...@]* ix.netcom.com>
Tokyo, Japan> > >
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