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Well the sleep light does not turn on ,when I close the lid the screen will shut off when I lift it back up it turns on but then shuts off till I press a key on the keyboard. I can manually put it to sleep at the apple menu too. What I was asking about the ram was when I was running 2gb I was...

Well I have'nt checked the transcend memory sticks but I am running this macbook with 1 hynix 512 stick and it checked out okay. So far I've used this all day and night putting it to sleep and waking up moving it around it has'nt black screened on me yet, BUT it is very slow too leopard on a duo...

The whole board checks out good I took it out and cleaned it. I'm thinking it may be the logic but I'm also thinking about the Transcend memory that was put as an upgrade there is 2x1gb sticks in it. I run Techtool pro 6 and everything checks out, but I've seen memory can cause the black screen...

I have a macbook with no liquid damage. Sometimes it will start up and run properly. Other times while i'm using it the screen will go black and the fan is still running but the keyboard is unresponsive like the caps lock and num lock won't light up. I have to reboot . The sleep light is broke...

I know on alot of old emacs and imacs the capacitors look like pop cans stick up with 2 sticks solder in the board. But on a early macbook logic core duo, I'm not really shure what they look like. Are they the round cylinders on the top side which are a little fatter I see about 3.

Do you have gray restore disc that came with it ? Run the test disc with it. Sounds like your video chip or video cable is bad or even the screen itself.

Ok. I guess by removing the heatsink I would need to apply thermal past to the copper shims when I put it back? I wanting to take the whole board off and clean it if I can. If the battery is causing strange problems in a good mac too what are the chances it can screw something up on the good...

Well the one battery when I stick in a good macbook will cause weird problems for instance at one time the charger went to green red the knocked off completly. I had disconnect the battery and wait 5 min for the charger to work again. Is the short in the bad macbook a capacitor or the power...

Don't really know how much time I will spend on it once I find it. The strangest thing I've found that's happend to it is that the battery that was in it will knock the power off the power adapter instantly if the light comes back on it is blinky, and it was tested in a good working macbook did...

Well I have an update on it I decided to take loose battery connector and run straight power plug I couldn't even get it to boot last night until I did this morning it boots everytime now, but I don't think that's my problem Now if I move the macbook just a little too much it will automatically...

Well I talked to my friend he is absolutley shure there was no liquid spill I've since took off the keyboard and inspected the top logic board the fan is real dusty for one I see small amounts of dusty like material around different places but the battery connector looks alright I don't have the...

Well I have a whole bit of problems with the macbook I got for free. Last night playing with it a bit I was moving it around and it shut off. The hard drive I put in is brand new with fresh install of 10.6.7. I was using it directly plugged , power chord never come undone. Sometimes it would...

Is it possible for a battery thats blinking to make a complete short in the entire board like the first time it killed the charger?

One more thing in the system specs it shows cdrw dvdrw drive normal macbook superdrive when I stick a dvd in it spits it out when I stick a cd in it reads it and burns it.

I going to take the keyboard off and do an inspect of the internals let you know how turns out. I've managed to fix everything the apple store has told me was high cost on my own at a fraction of the cost.

ok check this out. on one occasion I had the battery out and the charger unplugged , plugged it back in hit the power button guess what! the screen instantly turned on and was at the mac os screen I have password log in on the HD too whoa! then it was faint white with the desktop still in the...

snow leopard is for Intel machines only , the farthest you'll get with it is 10.5 leopard on that G5.

So I got this macbook from a friend said it was stuck in recovery mode well I brought it home and stuck a good hd in and booted it up seem like everything was fine. I noticed the sleep light did'nt come on but still made noize from the dvd drive and chime. I did a smc reset popped the battery...

basically sometimes I run a usb broadband card in macbook all my flash drives I have to eject but when I have the modem card in it does'nt show but it does work. I use it fine when I'm finished I'm used to ejecting the device properly but there is nothing in my finder to eject I just take it out...

Just like my title says I'm powering on a early macbook, I happen to have no battery just plug it in. So far it did this both times I've turned on the mac today I'm on it now in the second boot. I hit the power button the white light comes on and stays on , screen is black, then about 20...