Trying to Repair a Macintosh PowerBook 190

Sadness, that is all I can say...
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0:00 - Intro
1:51 - Teardown
7:55 - Fixing the trackpad and battery
14:10 - Cracking open the battery (YUM!)
17:28 - Battery results
20:26 - Screen disassembly
26:26 - Fixing the screen
35:59 - The SCARIEST Part of this Video!!
42:28 - The PowerBook 190
43:18 - Sadness
45:23 - The PowerBook 3400c (for those who wanna see a working PowerBook)
48:03 - Outro

[@KirukatoMirekusu]

Im sensing Dankpod vibes from this video

[@coleisforrobot]

yeah

[@coleisforrobot]

_app-le_

[@Epiceditz735]

Same

[@Matyas_Ceo_Of_Matyas]

i dont

[@KirukatoMirekusu]

@@Matyas_Ceo_Of_Matyas ok

[@DuckInGameStop]

I think you're currently my favorite KZbin channel. interesting old tech stuff, dankpods style but with more chill vibes, that glorious australian accent, plus beautiful synthwave (edit: and Minecraft OST!) playing the whole time? perfection.

[@johansmolinski]

Thank you for this video! Very glad you posted it although we all had to witness the moment of death. I just got a powerbook 190cs in just about the same condition. A little less battery leakage, but pretty much the same situation with the hinges and trackpad. Without this video I doubt I had been able to open it at all. Now it's in a hundred parts all over my desk. Considering doing the same fix as you; supergluing the heck out of it. There's no way I can get these plastic pieces together. It's far too fragile.

[@frokfrdk]

These things really are a challenge especially the fact that they'll essentially just shatter on you

[@trisiegt]

@@frokfrdk yo hi frokfrdk! I have an idea for a video - make some abomination of a foldable Lumia (although you would need 3 of the same model) and make it run Windows 11

[@frokfrdk]

@@trisiegt if there is a way I could span the display to all of them then I'd do it

[@Buschaga]

The PowerBook 190 has the distinction of being the last grayscale Macintosh ever sold by Apple. And the last 68040 processor machine! Thanks for the video.

[@PaRaDoX-360]

Really good video! Cant wait to see you grow!

[@frokfrdk]

Thanks!!

[@A_Random_Gamer_.]

keep up on this content I'm glad that I have seen your channel

[@mfigueroa2816]

Nice job I love it! Keep it up love to see you a again

[@TheRandomMelon]

absolute banger of a video mr. frokfrdk

[@Cyber_Horse_Studios87]

I honestly had the same thing happen. I took a 190, 190CS screen, and what was left of a 5300 to create a working unit. It does work and it does have an SSD, but the display is having some issues where half the screen it’s glitched out.

[@mmkf]

Yeah i have 2 old perl laptops with a similar issue with the hinges. 1 has already been damaged so I'm kind of scared to open the second one and as I can't find any documentation on them

[@Ccoolty]

you sound like an australian homestar runner, and i mean that in a good way

[@i80386sx]

Ni-MH batteries generally don't explode. They leak like crazy as you can tell.

[@Homepage.]

I can't find the post, but someone on reddit loaded OS X on to one of these [obviously with a few modification] and after a few seconds it completely bricked itself

[@ast3663]

OSX cant run on 603e ppc lol

[@Homepage.]

@@ast3663 with a few modifications it can. Also did you read IT BRICKED ITSELF

[@BeginningTry3200]

The clicking coming from the machine is likely a dead hard drive. If you replace the HDD it might work again.

[@carloisdoingstupidtechstuff]

0:02 or 0:03 "Apple" - frokfrdk 2022 xD

[@RadsterrYT]

frock fo duck

[@Joker_Ryachi-Jewel]

Apple laptops are very interesting, especially the old ones!

[@mmkf]

It might be the lack of the battery causing it to not work

[@zUltraXO]

There's no way the original battery worked anyway, the pins were all corroded together

[@jellepetje]

These do not need a battery

[@megaduck146]

nice

[@georgwalt7978]

Inside part of battery mattered sensors and stuff

[@smileyface8124]

also you can dip the motherboard in isopropyl alcohol and scrub it with a (clean) toothbrush

[@billgates3699]

This was a complete demolition in slow motion 😂 but so close

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

Do the iPhone 5c please, it's underrated.

[@frokfrdk]

Well do I have news for you kzbin.info/www/bejne/ooa4eGumnZuJgdk

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

Oh wow. That thing is in "lovely" condition.

[@crystal-km9ob]

Usless paper whight by frofrdk

[@smileyface8124]

lithium fires 👍

[@Oh.Canada]

How to absolutely nuke the day of the person who fixes your computer after you

[@TamFishe]

repairing this powerbook needed hp tools --super glue

[@A_Random_Gamer_.]

2:06 is it just me or this laptop is looking kinda T.H.I.C.C

[@tjcummings5249]

Those were 18650 so you could rebuild the battery

[@ArmedBread]

12:05 which youtuber is he talking about?

[@LeoFlipnotes]

BRASSO! (dankpods)

[@ArmedBread]

@@LeoFlipnotes oh ok

[@ast3663]

you seem to enjoy destroying this mac..sad

[@frokfrdk]

I really didn't, no idea what gave you that impression

[@Foggy404]

He literally tried his best to fix it and avoid damage though?

[@ast3663]

@@Foggy404 one example, 14:29, with that cheesy fun music in the background, then with a hammer and a screwdriver, then vice and a hammer..does THAT look like a restore for you? RESEARCH, research and then with a lot of CARE.

[@frokfrdk]

@@ast3663 That's just the battery compartment that was already destroyed from the battery leaking, the only part of it that mattered was the front of it so I could complete the look of the machine...