Hi Mark,
I have a 520c with a dead battery pack. I plan to have it refurbished with new
cells. I've been trawling my emails looking for the guy who refurbed a
clamshell iBook battery pack some years ago. All I can remember is that his
surname is Polish.
On the battery front, I would definitely recommend getting it professionally
done. IIRC it's NiCad but NiMH will also work in it. The battery pack place
will balance everything and ensure that it charges for you. I have tried cheap
eBay packs but they don't always last as long, maybe a year. That iBook battery
rebuild lasted for years.
Good luck with the rest of it. I'm fortunate that mine has very little wrong
with it. I do need to plug it in and check it soon. When I first used it back
in 1995, I fell in love with it. I want to upgrade the HDD with an SD unit. The
original borked some years ago.
Cheers,
Keith
On Friday, 1 February 2019, 20:39:09 GMT, [email protected] <[email protected]>
wrote:
Not completed sorted out yet, but the below is known...
The ribbon cable going to the floppy drive is torn. I notice that there
is one on ebay.
The hinge between the main body of the laptop and the screen is damaged.
The screen (grayscale, not color) is not right...hard to describe. Very
low contrast, bubbly.
It does boot with a color monitor plugged into it, and that works.
The batteries are dead but it will run off of the AC adapter. Any
solution on the batteries?
It would be easiest to start with a new functional machine, but my son
wants to try to fix it, and I am ok with that.
What's the best OS to run on the 520? I've noted that it crashes when
booted with extensions, but will boot to stable with extensions
off...but then you can't do anything with the machine. It looks like it
has 8.1 on it...with tons of extensions. We haven't used it for a long
time; it was my wife's machine back in the day.
Thanks,
MarkN
I'm sure that there are more issues.
On 2/1/19 11:19 AM, Jeff Hubatka wrote:
> Do you know what parts you need?
> I have a bunch of stuff in boxes in my garage, including screens, keyboards,
> floppy drives, dead batteries etc.
> I also have an odd machine that is the 550 color with a Japanese/English
> keyboard along with a grayscale screen and 33mhz processor.
>
> JeffH
>
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