Apple 1400C/166 - Manuals

Basics Product Overview - 1 Product Overview The PowerBook 1400 Series is the first PowerBook to support fully modular features. Customers can upgrade their floppy drive, CD-ROM drive, and expansion memory. Customers can also replace the removable panel on the top of the case with a clear or colored...

Basics System Configurations - 3 System Configurations The PowerBook 1400 Series computers come in the following configurations: PowerBook 1400cs (October ‘96) • Processor: 117 MHz PowerPC 603e • RAM/Hard drive: 12 MB/750 MB or 16 MB/750 MB/CD • Display: 11.3" dual-scan passive matrix (FSTN) • B...

Basics Repair Strategy - 7 Repair Strategy Service the PowerBook 1400 Series computers through module exchange and parts replacement. Customers can request on-site service from an Apple Authorized Service Provider Plus (AASP+) Apple Assurance (US only), or request a courier through the Apple Canada ...

Basics Repair Strategy - 8 Large businesses, universities, and K-12 accounts must provide a purchase order on all transactions, including orders placed through the AppleOrder (US only) or ARIS (Canada only) system. USA Ordering US Service Providers not enrolled in AppleOrder may fax their orders to ...

Basics Repair Strategy - 9 Canadian Ordering Canadian Service Providers not enrolled in ARIS may fax their orders to Service Provider Support in Canada (1-800-903-5284). For Canadian inquiries, please call Service Provider Support at 905-513-5782 and select option #3.

Basics Front View - 11 Front View The front of the computer includes the battery, floppy drive or CD-ROM drive, microphone, contrast control, brightness control, and sleep indicator. Microphone Contrast Control Brightness Control Battery CD-ROM Drive or Floppy Drive Sleep Indicator

Basics Side View - 12 Side View The left side panel contains two PC Card (PCMCIA card) slots and PC Card eject buttons. PC Card Eject Buttons Two PC Card (PCMCIA Card) Slots

Basics Rear Panel - 13 Rear Panel The rear panel contains the I/O ports, reset button, infrared window, and security slot. SCSI Port (HDI-30) Sound Output Port Power Adapter Port Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) Port Reset Button Expansion Port Printer/External Modem Port Infrared Window Security Slot Sound ...

Basics Logic Board - 14 Logic Board The logic board contains the daughterboard and optional factory-installed and customer-installed memory expansion cards. It also contains numerous connectors. PCMCIA Speaker Display Inverter Factory RAM Customer RAM Microprocessor Daughter- Board Keyboard Trackpad...

Basics Cable Matrix - 15 Cable Matrix For a matrix of cables that work with specific models of the PowerBook family of computers, select the PowerBook Cable Matrix located in Hardware/Compatibility Charts.

Basics Battery Information - 16 Battery Information Warning: Use only the battery supplied with the PowerBook 1400 Series or an identical model. Batteries designed for other portable computers may look similar, but they may not work with your computer and may damage it. Battery Matrix For a matrix o...

Basics Battery Information - 18 Battery Handling Guidelines The following are guidelines for properly handling the PowerBook 1400 Series batteries: Warning: NiMH batteries contain hazardous chemicals. Send undamaged, dead batteries to Apple for recycling—do not discard dead batteries with other wast...

Basics PC Card Handling - 20 PC Card Handling Two PC Card slots (also known as PCMCIA slots) are featured in the PowerBook 1400 Series. The two slots accept a variety of third- party PC Cards with 68-pin connectors. There are three types of PC Cards: Type I (3.3 mm), Type II (5 mm), and Type III (10...

Service Source K Specifications PowerBook 1400 Series

Specifications Introduction - 1 Introduction You can also find specifications information for this product in the Spec Database, which you can access in one of three ways: — Launch it directly by double-clicking the Apple Spec Database runtime alias at the top level of the Main Service Source CD. — ...

Specifications Processor - 2 Processor CPU PowerPC 603e microprocessor running at 117 MHz PowerPC 603e microprocessor running at 133 MHz PowerPC 603e microprocessor running at 166 MHz Cache 256 KB second-level (L2) cache

Specifications Memory - 3 Memory RAM 12 or 16 MB of low-power DRAM Customer-upgradeable Expandable to 64 MB using TSOP low-profile RAM chips rated at 70 ns access time or faster ROM 4 MB ROM VRAM 1 MB VRAM

Specifications Disk Storage - 4 Disk Storage Floppy Drive Removable 1.44 MB floppy drive (in the expansion bay or packed separately if a CD-ROM drive is installed in the expansion bay). Reads and writes Macintosh 1.4 MB floppy disks and Windows, DOS, and OS/2 720K and 1.44 MB floppy disks; reads Mac...

Specifications I/O Interfaces - 7 Security Users may attach a security device such as the Kensington Security Connector.

Specifications Expansion Interfaces - 8 Expansion Interfaces Expansion Slots Expansion slot for optional user-installable card adds a connector that can provide a video port, an Ethernet network connection, or another device Expansion slot for user-installable RAM expansion card. (Card has connector...

Specifications Video - 10 Video Macintosh PowerBook 1400cs Video Display 11.3" diagonal, 800 x 600 dual-scan passive matrix (FSTN); thousands of colors Macintosh PowerBook 1400c Video Display 11.3" diagonal, 800 x 600 active matrix (CTFT); thousands of colors

Specifications Electrical - 11 Electrical Main Battery Rechargeable nickel-metal-hydride (NiMH) battery 2-4 hours of use before recharging Recharge time: slightly more than 2 hours Power Adapter 100-240 VAC line voltage 45 W, 50-60 Hz Backup Battery 50 milliamp-hour rechargeable battery for calendar...

Specifications Physical - 12 Physical Dimensions Height: 2.0 in. (54 mm) Width: 11.5 in. (292 mm) Depth: 9.0 in. (229 mm) Weight 6.6 lb. (3.0 kg) with floppy drive expansion module If the floppy drive is replaced with a CD-ROM drive, add .14 kg (0.3 lb.) to the computer’s weight

Specifications Environmental - 13 Environmental Operating Temperature 41° to 95° F (5° to 35° C) Storage Temperature 14° to 140° F (-10° to 60° C) Nickel-metal-hydride -13° to 140° F (-25° to 60° C) Relative Humidity 20% to 80% noncondensing Operating Altitude 10,000 ft. (3,048 m) maximum Shipping/N...

Service Source K Troubleshooting PowerBook 1400 Series

Troubleshooting General - 1 General In each product manual on Service Source, you will find Flowcharts and/or Symptom Charts designed to help you diagnose and repair Apple computers. If you have narrowed the problem down to a particular symptom, start with the Symptom Charts. Because cures are liste...

Troubleshooting Symptom Charts/ Startup - 2 Symptom Charts Startup RAM failure occurs (eight-tone error chord sequence sounds after startup chord) 1 Remove RAM card (if present) and restart computer. If startup sequence is normal, replace RAM card and retest. 2 Reseat RAM card and check connection. ...

Troubleshooting Symptom Charts/ Power - 4 Power Note: You will hear only the click of the power-on button when you attempt to start up a computer that lacks sufficient power to start. Computer won’t power up 1 If sleep LED is continually on, backup battery power has been interrupted. Restart compute...

Troubleshooting Symptom Charts/ Sound - 14 Sound No sound from speaker 1 Verify that volume setting in Control Panel is above 0. 2 Verify that no external speaker is plugged in. 3 Verify speaker cable is seated on logic board. 4 Replace speaker. 5 Replace logic board .

Troubleshooting Symptom Charts/ Hard Drive - 19 Hard Drive Internal hard drive does not spin up 1 Make sure power adapter is connected. 2 Disconnect external SCSI devices. 3 Check hard drive cable connection. 4 Use Hard Drive Format to reinitialize drive. 5 Replace hard drive. 6 Replace hard drive c...

Troubleshooting Symptom Charts/ Infrared Communication - 24 Infrared Communication Infrared communication is not working 1 Clean infrared window with soft lint-free cloth. 2 Verify infrared board is properly seated. 3 Verify infrared signal is being received by host computer. 4 Replace PCMCIA eject ...

Troubleshooting Symptom Charts/ Peripherals - 25 Peripherals After you connect external SCSI device, computer does not boot 1 Verify that device and SCSI chain are terminated correctly. 2 Switch on external SCSI device before starting computer. 3 Check cable connections. 4 Try known-good SCSI cable....

Troubleshooting Symptom Charts/ Miscellaneous - 32 Miscellaneous Sleep light won’t come on 1 Verify that computer is in sleep mode and not powered off. 2 Reset power manager. (See Power Manager and PRAM Reset in Additional Procedures.) 3 Replace inverter board. Screen goes blank and computer shuts d...

Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Flowchart—Startup Problems - 33 Troubleshooting Flowchart—Startup Problems START Reset the Power Manager. Press power button tobegin boot sequence. Do you hear the startuptones? No Yes Are the startup tones normal? Yes Does any video appear? No Yes See "Startup...

Take Apart - 1 Screw Information There are 16 types of screws in the PowerBook 1400. The chart and information that follows will help you ensure that the correct screws are used in putting the computer back together. Caution: To avoid stripping any screw heads, use a metric p h i l l i p s s c r e w...

Troubleshooting - 2 Pictured Screws For a visual of the screws (identified by the letters A-W) in their locations, refer to the pages that follow.

Take Apart - 1 9 Tools Use the following tools for taking apart computers in the PowerBook 1400 Series: • # 0 m e t r i c p h i l l i p s s c r e w d r i v e r• # 0 0 m e t r i c p h i l l i p s s c r e w d r i v e r• 5 m m o r 3 / 1 6 " n u t d r i v e r ( f o r m i c r o p r o c e s s o r daug...

Take Apart Top Case Assembly - 2 4 Top Case Assembly The following parts are located in the top case assembly of the PowerBook 1400 Series.

Take Apart Top Case Assembly - 2 5 Speaker Grill No additional removals are necessary before continuing.

Take Apart Top Case Assembly - 3 7 End Clutch Covers No additional removals are necessary before continuing.

Take Apart Top Case Assembly - 3 9 Center Hinge Cover No additional removals are necessary before continuing Note : The center hinge cover is easily scratched. Remove it carefully.

Take Apart Display Assembly - 6 2 Panel Before performing this take-apart, you only need to remove the power adapter. (You do not need to remove the other modules listed in Modules You Must Remove). Note: Two panels —graphite and clear— are available for this computer.

Take Apart Display Assembly - 7 9 Inverter Board Before you continue, remove the following:• Speaker Grill • Keyboard & Heatsink• End Clutches• Center Hinge Cover • Display Assembly• Panel• Bezel• Display Note: For this procedure it is not necessary to disconnect the display cable from the remov...

Take Apart Display Assembly - 8 6 Display Housing Before you continue, remove the following:• Speaker Grill• Keyboard & Heatsink• End Clutch Covers• Center Hinge Cover• Display Assembly• Panel• Bezel• Display• I n v e r t e r B o a r d• Clutch Assembly Note: The display housing includes the slee...

Take Apart Bottom Case Assembly - 9 6 PCMCIA Eject Board Before you continue, remove the following:• Speaker Grill • Keyboard & Heatsink• Hard Drive• End Clutch Covers• Center Hinge Cover• Display Assembly • Top Case

Take Apart Bottom Case Assembly - 1 1 7 ADB EMI Shield Before you continue, remove the following:• Speaker Grill • Keyboard & Heatsink• Hard Drive• End Clutch Covers• Center Hinge Cover• Display Assembly • Top Case• PCMCIA Eject Board• Microprocessor Daughterboard • Feet• Logic Board

Take Apart Bottom Case Assembly - 1 2 4 Hard Drive Cable Before you continue, remove the following:• Speaker Grill • Keyboard & Heatsink• Hard Drive • End Clutch Covers• Center Hinge Cover• Display Assembly• Top Case• PCMCIA Eject Board• Microprocessor Daughterboard • Feet• Logic Board

Take Apart Bottom Case Assembly - 1 2 6 PCMCIA Door Before you continue, remove the following:• Speaker Grill • Keyboard & Heatsink• Hard Drive• End Clutch Covers• Center Hinge Cover• Display Assembly • Top Case• PCMCIA Eject Board• Microprocessor Daughterboard • Feet• Logic Board

Take Apart Bottom Case Assembly - 1 3 1 Bottom Case Before you continue, remove the following:• Speaker Grill • Keyboard & Heatsink• Hard Drive• End Clutch Covers• Center Hinge Cover• Display Assembly • Top Case• PCMCIA Eject Board• Microprocessor Daughterboard • Feet• Logic Board

Upgrades Video Connector - 1 Video Connector Before you begin, refer to the Take-Apart chapter to remove the following: • Modules You Must Remove • Speaker Grill • Keyboard & Heatsink Note: For this procedure it is not necessary to disconnect the keyboard. The Macintosh PowerBook 8-Bit Color Vid...

Service Source K Additional Procedures PowerBook 1400 Series

Additional Procedures Power Manager and PRAM Reset - 5 Power Manager Reset Resetting the power manager can fix many power-on problems without changing control panel settings. Follow these steps to reset the power manager:1 If the computer is on, turn it off. 2 Restart the computer by holding down th...

Additional Procedures Power Manager and PRAM Reset - 6 PRAM and Power Manager Reset Resetting the PRAM also resets the power manager. Note that resetting the PRAM erases the contents of the RAM disk, if there is one. Resetting the PRAM also restores the default settings in most control panels. After...

Additional Procedures Door Replacement for CD-ROM Drives - 8 Door Replacement for CD-ROM Drives The door of the CD-ROM drive used with the media bay may break at the tabs used to attach it to the drive mechanism tray. The door is replaceable. Please replace the door for customers rather than replaci...

Service Source K Exploded View PowerBook 1400 Series