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12" Powerbook 867 keeps burning up power supplies.
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Crusoe
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Nov 6, 2006, 03:48 PM
 
There's a cheap 12" Powerbook on Craiglist i'm considering that is burning up power supplies.
It just burned it's 3rd in 3 years. Any ideas of what could be causing it and if it's fixable?

I'm buying an iMac, giving my wife my 17" powerbook, retiring her TiBook 400 which I can salvage the power supply from (it's a new one, I had to replace the yoyo). I would like to have a second mac on the side that isn't as beat up as my old TiBook.
If a group of mimes are miming a forest and one falls down, does he make a sound?
     
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Nov 6, 2006, 05:19 PM
 
Originally Posted by Crusoe View Post
There's a cheap 12" Powerbook on Craiglist i'm considering that is burning up power supplies.
It just burned it's 3rd in 3 years. Any ideas of what could be causing it and if it's fixable?

I'm buying an iMac, giving my wife my 17" powerbook, retiring her TiBook 400 which I can salvage the power supply from (it's a new one, I had to replace the yoyo). I would like to have a second mac on the side that isn't as beat up as my old TiBook.
The regulator on the board is bad, other than replacing it, I don't know
     
   
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