I have a PowerBook G4 17" 1.0GHz with what I suspect to be a bad inverter. I have worked on 12." and 15" displays but not 17". Are there any published direction on how to proceed? I have the Service Source manual, which doesn't detail the display's disassembly, and have the iFixit guide which also evades the topic. For the record, the display's backlight doesn't illuminate but when strong light is pointed at the screen, you can see the desktop, dialog boxes etc The display flickers occasionally giving me cause to suspect the LCD is not the problem either.
Power Macintosh G3 Rev1,400MHz/1GB/3 x 73GB 15K SCSI/DVD-ROM/Radeon 9200 128MB,
Mac OS X (10.5.5),
MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz/3GB/250GB
Answer: never try to take apart the display of a PowerBook G4 17". It makes the titanium PowerBook seems easy. Don't buy "portable" systems with oversized displays that twice as likely to be damaged than the smaller models..
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Guide or Instructions for Disassembly of Display?
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