Video out connection bad on MOBO

My video went out when I opened my G4 Titanium display one day. Odd smell and no video. I found the ribbon cable was damaged near the plug on MOBO. One wire was stripped and probably contacted the metal inside. I assume there was damage to the video out somewhere on the MOBO. External display is fine. Short of buying a new cable to test the internal output to diplay is there any way to test this?

Hi, Macnag. For clarity's sake, can we agree that "video out" means the port on the back of your Powerbook to which you connect an external monitor? You say "External display is fine," so I assume there's nothing wrong with your video out. For the same reason, I conclude that there's nothing wrong with the video components on your logic board, and that's good news. You know you need a new LVDS video cable (which feeds the built-in display), because the one you have is damaged. What you may not know is how difficult it is to replace that cable, one end of which is sealed inside the glued-together display assembly. For one man's techniques for opening the display assembly to get at the stuff inside it, see http://mywebpages.comcast.net/macdan/tibook_display.html.

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