I did exactly that, minus the USB mouse / keyboard.
Got a Samsung, but the sticker says Lenovo. Maybe it was manufactured by Samsung and intended for Lenovo?
Either way, it's smooth sailing now.
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My PowerBook G4 12" Journal - Full tear down, SSD upgrade and CPU Fan.
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I did exactly that, minus the USB mouse / keyboard.
Got a Samsung, but the sticker says Lenovo. Maybe it was manufactured by Samsung and intended for Lenovo?
Either way, it's smooth sailing now.
Got a Samsung, but the sticker says Lenovo. Maybe it was manufactured by Samsung and intended for Lenovo?
Either way, it's smooth sailing now.
Excellent! Great accomplishment mate! They sure aren’t the easiest machines to work on.
It makes me really appreciate the simple access to the HDD that Apple put into the Black/White MacBooks, the MacBook unibody ‘08 and the early 13” MBPs. It’s literally just a case of removing the battery and a screw or two then the drive comes right out.
I miss this computer so much. It's, by far, my favorite Apple notebook ever. I was so disappointed when they didn't update it with Intel Processors.
Thank you very much!
Ah, but 'tis a luxury most people take for granted...
My guess would be yes. It's certainly the case with one of my 12" G4 PBooks with a depleted battery.
Figured I'd post several photos from my recent expedition into my PowerBook.
Here's the empty hard drive slot, finally dust-free. You can see the new thermal padding positioned under the heatsink.
The hypnotic curved grooves of the heatsink. I thought this could potentially make a good background.
And as you can see, I tried Aphotic's method of placing thermal pads on top of the heatsink. (Which worked quite well. Idle CPU/GPU temperatures are reliably at or below 40 degrees Celsius and quickly return to manageable levels after intensive work.) Quite prominently, you can see part of the problematic wire I was going on about. I cut the loose wire piece off a little more, then wrapped adhesive + scotch tape around it to keep from interfering with anything. The actual microphone wires are located just above it, under the power wires. (My mic actually does work.) In the cable routing in the middle of the heatsink grooves back to the motherboard, on the right most side, there is a tangle of red/black wires looped around each other. The one broken off from the connector is the black one, which you can see just a little bit of before the makeshift guard covers it up. If anyone knows what that black wire, once looped around a red one both sourcing back to the black cable is, I'd be much appreciative.
Here's the empty hard drive slot, finally dust-free. You can see the new thermal padding positioned under the heatsink.
The hypnotic curved grooves of the heatsink. I thought this could potentially make a good background.
And as you can see, I tried Aphotic's method of placing thermal pads on top of the heatsink. (Which worked quite well. Idle CPU/GPU temperatures are reliably at or below 40 degrees Celsius and quickly return to manageable levels after intensive work.) Quite prominently, you can see part of the problematic wire I was going on about. I cut the loose wire piece off a little more, then wrapped adhesive + scotch tape around it to keep from interfering with anything. The actual microphone wires are located just above it, under the power wires. (My mic actually does work.) In the cable routing in the middle of the heatsink grooves back to the motherboard, on the right most side, there is a tangle of red/black wires looped around each other. The one broken off from the connector is the black one, which you can see just a little bit of before the makeshift guard covers it up. If anyone knows what that black wire, once looped around a red one both sourcing back to the black cable is, I'd be much appreciative.
Looks like the GPU on my unit failed causing the stalled boot screen, not an issue with the Msata. I swapped the original spinner back in with the same problem. I also tried to boot from my minis hdd via tdm with the same exact issue. Its certainly the weirdest GPU failure I’ve experienced - no artifacts, weird colors, stripes etc. just a hanging blue, gray, white or black boot screen. I booted into safe mode ok but ANY type of regular use ended with the hung bootscreen ie:
Regular boot
TDM boot
TDM clone
Disc install to 1st boot
Hdd swap
PRAM reset
Permission/hdd repair
Anyhow, certainly bummed that it died but also a cool opportunity to find a replacement. Now I have a pb12 full of good parts aside from a wonky GPU.
Regular boot
TDM boot
TDM clone
Disc install to 1st boot
Hdd swap
PRAM reset
Permission/hdd repair
Anyhow, certainly bummed that it died but also a cool opportunity to find a replacement. Now I have a pb12 full of good parts aside from a wonky GPU.
I recently acquired a 1.33Ghz model with initially the same symptoms; blue screen on boot which doesn’t get anywhere. It then started showing artifacts during the multi-boot and open firmware screens, so it’s definitely the GPU. I ordered a replacement logic board from PowerBook Medic. They only had the 1Ghz board available but it was really cheap. It was the first failed GPU on a 12” PB I have witnessed. Now yours... I hope it’s not a trend!
My A1104 had that. I could still boot to full desktop with extensions off but it stuck on bluescreen once the drivers kicked in. Only real cure was a Logic Board swap.
Hi everyone, I'm about to reapply thermal pads and paste to my G4 12" PB. Disassembly went just fine but now I'm clueless about what to do with the area shown on the picture.
The white stuff in the middle is thermal paste, but what's the flat brownish stuff around it? Should I scrape it off? Is that thermal paste as well?
The white stuff in the middle is thermal paste, but what's the flat brownish stuff around it? Should I scrape it off? Is that thermal paste as well?
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Yes, that is the old thermal pad. You'll want to scrape it all off first. Best of luck!
Thanks!
Everything seemed to work well but it didn't detect the SSD I also swapped in (it did detect it as an external drive though before I opened the PB). It still detected my old HDD though. After some swapping around it now also doesn't detect the HDD anymore. It gets warm but doesn't turn on,
It also doesn't detect USB drives when I boot into OF. I have no CD or FW drives at hand. Well, I'll figure something out
Everything seemed to work well but it didn't detect the SSD I also swapped in (it did detect it as an external drive though before I opened the PB). It still detected my old HDD though. After some swapping around it now also doesn't detect the HDD anymore. It gets warm but doesn't turn on,
It also doesn't detect USB drives when I boot into OF. I have no CD or FW drives at hand. Well, I'll figure something out