Just snipping wires to remove a completely broken display
I know there's been a bunch of topics posted on repairing/replacing a broken screen, but...
I've got a Powerbook Ti with a completely inop screen and two broken hinges (yes, I dropped it badly!). The laptop works fine with an external monitor.
The only thing keeping the screen attached to the rest of the laptop at this point is some plastic still intact and a few thin wires.
Can I just snip them off, and use the computer with an external monitor (without going through all the pain of dismantling the rest of the computer)?
Hi, tool119, and welcome to Apple Discussions. Two of those wires are for the display backlight and the pulsing sleep light. I suspect you could just cut them with no ill effects. But the LVDS (video data) cable is a bundle of tiny coaxial cables containing many wires not much thicker than a hair. The likelihood of pressing the cut ends of some of those conductors together so that when powered again, they short out and potentially damage your Powerbook's video circuitry (which is all soldered onto the main logic board), seems high to me. I wouldn't risk it. If you do decide to go ahead, I recommend cutting that cable with a very thin, sharp blade such as an X-Acto knife or a new single-edge razor blade, to keep crushing action to an absolute minimum. And of course make sure there is no power being supplied to the PB while you do any of the cutting: unplug the AC adapter, remove the main battery, and leave it that way for an hour to let the internal backup battery drain too. Then cross your fingers and cut if you must.
If it were my Powerbook, I'd open it and disconnect the cables properly.
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