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The Powerbook, which is running off of my new power plug/socket, will consistently come on for about two or three minutes after I reset the PMU. So, all is not lost! During that time, it works perfectly. I'm thinking it might need a new PMU battery. It is, after all, seven years old. I can probably check that pretty easily, as that part sits directly under the keyboard. Also, the only battery I can find is deader than dead, so the system doesn't have that to fall back on at the moment.

So my last major laptop was a 15" Powerbook G4. This series of computers had a really shitty power connector design on an otherwise great machine, and they invariably end up getting to the point where looking at them sidewise makes them disconnect. I'd like to sell this system while it's still worth something, but I didn't feel good about doing so when the connector was in that kind of shape. So I decided to try a little project.

It was fairly involved.

So after soldering on the new, much more standard power connector, and getting all the major components assembled, but with about half (maybe 20) of the screws still lying around on the table, I plugged in the new power connector...

...flipped down the keyboard....

...and hit The Button.

And it CAME ON.

It got all the way through a normal boot!

Then, after I turned my back for a second, the screen went crazy. I pulled the power connector out (there was no battery.)

And now it won't come on anymore.

Fuck.

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