Dankesch�n, your instructions worked perfectly and the result was
ausgezeichnet. I filed down the stub and just replaced the click pad and
it works. Thanks.
By the way, a question to the general audience, when I close the PB 2400
and tilt it around there is sound coming from the inside as if there was
something loose. Does anyone know what it could be?
As background information to this new event, I upgraded the hard drive on
a PB G3 Series, I then took the hd I took out of the G3 and had a local
service shop install it in the PB2400 (I figured I would gain an extra
gig rather than have the g3 original dirve sitting around, which is what
it is doing now).
After a while, whenever I carried the PB2400 and tilted it, a sound
(banging) of something really loose came from it. I eventually took it
back to the shop that had installed the G3 hd and they informed me that
the guy who had installed it had been fired and that the g3 hd should
never have been installed in the pb2400 because the power requirements
were different and because the mounting holes on the drive were not the
same. So I had the 1.3 gig hd that originally came with the 2400
reinstalled.
I don't really know if I should upgrade the hd on the 2400. I striclty
use it for business when I travel (not often) and I still have 500MB free
on the 1.3 gig hd after installing all the work apps and work data files
in it.
I don't know. Maybe I should just get the new G3 400 mhz pb and chuck the
old 2400. After all, according to the new evolutionary psychology (EP)
movement, men are genetically programmed leave their old wives for young
girlfriends. I guess that explains my urge (Hi Brandy!)
On 11/2/99 3:25 PM, Mathis Groendahl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
>Hi Pedro,
>
>actually, you do not have to take the palm rest apart:
>
>I usually do it (every once in while when my klicker is bad, three times
>now) without big surgery:
>
>try to - carefully ! - pop off the trackpad button inserting a screw
>driver on the right front side, a bit left to the frontmost curve (go
>straight from the right end of the trackpad down to where the button ends
>frontwards - hope this sounds understandable...). do it slowly, softly
>and carfully. it ususally just popps off and you can take it nout. then
>continue as Tim said: I rubbed off the whole pin and put some
>resistandable plastics on top off the clicker that takes on the pressing
>from the trackpad button. it now works fine agin - for how long?
>
>you can just pop it back in when your done. but this is much mor easy
>than taking of the palm rest. but if you do not want it to do, a local
>dealer may does it, although they mostly do not know about these special
>tricks, at least here in germany.....
>
>hope this helps.
>
>- mathis
>
>
>On Mon, 1 Nov 1999 18:03:28 -0500, Pedro Nogueras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>Thanks. From what you tell me it seems to me that this is a major job. I
>>have tried to avoid taking the 2400 apart myself
>
>>On 11/1/99 3:41 PM, Timothy A. Seufert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
>
>>>>any suggestions on how
>>>>to fix it?
>
>>>To fix this, you'll need to take off the palm rest assembly and
>>>disassemble the trackpad. Take a flat file (it could even be a nail
>>>file) and very carefully use one or two passes to partially flatten
>>>the little spherical nub on the end of the trackpad button's plastic
>>>post. You should take off very little material.
>
>
>-------------------------------------------
>
>Mathis Groendahl
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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