Hi. In my experience, this only happened in the iBook series, more seen in the white G3 range. I have never seen this on a G3 PowerBook or TiBook. The cable feed on the TiBook is a lot smoother and nowhere near as tight as other models. I have no experience of AlBooks. Simon On 26 Sep 2009, at 21:58, Ed Wiser wrote: > Older powerbooks and ibooks had a problem with the way the video > cable that feeds the LCD display getting pinched in the hinge of the > unit. So check it out on monitor to be sure. > Simon Royal --- Site: http://www.simonroyal.co.uk. Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal . Skype: Simon-Royal. (PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, SuperDrive, Mac OSX 10.5)