a1181

The LID Switch FET functions OK, and the laptop DOES WORK with the external power, though Extremely Slow. At MagSafe, "Adapter Sense" line pulses when NO battery in place, the 16.5v line also pulses a few nanoseconds later (on 2 channel o-scope). Pulse width about 5ms every 1/2 second. Stays...

Hey. I have an old MacBook from 2008 (A1181) and I can't get my head around the options for replacing my failed 60w Magsafe power adapter. Usually I would just look to replace like for like but I get the feeling there are alternatives? Due to the age of my current adapter (A1184), I have...

Hello, My 2007 White MacBook doesn't detect the network card. This happened today, just a few hours ago. Before this everything worked fine. I didn't do anything. Just after a bit of time I woke it from sleep and saw an information that it doesn't see any network cards. It has newest Lion on...

Hi everyone, Hope you're well this is my first post here. I have an old A1181 MacBook running OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard which i am looking to wipe and sell. I have made a USB Boot Drive using Disk Utility and a Snow Leopard .dmg. Restored in the correct way OS Extended Journaled, GUID...

Apple A1181 Macbook 13.3" Laptop (1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB SDRAM, 250GB HDD MacOS: Snow Leopard 10.6.8 F7, 8, I, k, "," keys not working. I find it weird that they're not working and they're aligned. They have worked 2 out of 20 times that I have used this laptop. The problem is not...

Hi, I have a 2006 black macbook (1,1) and a 2009 macbook (5,2) A1181. I'd like to swap the logic boards. I have the two MacBooks completely apart and noticed that some of the connectors are different (I'm aware that the board mounts are different). Each of the 3 different connectors have the...

Hello all, I still have this MacBook5,2 (White, pre-unibody) that's working reasonably well, except for one thing: the NuPower battery I bought for it a year and a half ago only has 50 or so cycles, 100% health, but for an unknown reason, the computer shuts down without warning when under load...

Hi everyone, Im new here in the forums, I recently Installed mavericks on an unsupported macbook 4,1 (a1181) w/ the intel X3100 graphics chipset. I used the macpostfactor program, and stepped through a few different versions before I got to here. If anyone could give me some awesome pointers to...

Could someone please kindly guide me if there is any possibility that i can install Mavericks into my macbooks 4,1 and 2,1. As i read the guide from macpostfactor they have said that it is not recommended to install OSX Mavericks or Yosemite into these machines because of the GPU (GMA X3100...)...

Good evening I got a used macbook A1181 2006 1.83 Ghz (32bit- non Estar) and there was a problem, at the begging, on the battery charging issue. I opened the macbook and I found a wrong battery connector / sleep SW component. To be clear: My logic board supports this (Non Estar- 20pins)...

So today I had an Online Chat with apple support and Was asking A few questions here is How it went: Monday, May 02, 2016 12:29 PM Duration: 15 minutes 30 seconds Apple Hi, my name is Nathan. It'll be just a moment while I review the comments you provided. Apple: Hello Andre! How are you doing...