Rod, what happened to the Power Manager board that let you know something
was wrong?
I am having problems now with both batteries all of a sudden not showing a
charge even though they show voltage at 16.85 and up. Both Batts are new.
>
> Hey, Todd.
>
> I've got an old Wallstreet like yours. I upgraded the CPU to a BlueChip
> 466, added some RAM (160M total now), upgraded the HD to a 10G, and it runs
> OS X just fine. (Don't know whether OS X would run on the original CPU, as
> I upgraded some time ago). Thanks to hints from others, I was directed to
> a 3d pty driver for an Orinoco wireless card, and now this old Wallstreet
> is wireless under OS X. Solid as a rock.
>
> Hint for upcoming trouble: Beware the power manager board. Apparently
> this is a common failure, and will give you unstable battery charging,
> etc. I had mine replaced some time ago, and it is a bit pricey ($200 -
> $300). There's no substitute for replacing it, though, if you want to run
> under battery.
>
> You might also check into the particulars of your model regarding internal
> backup battery. I thought mine was dead, too, but then I found out that
> there is no internal backup battery in mine. It just needs some life in
> the main battery in order to keep its settings. If the battery is totally
> discharged, like if it sits for a few months, you'll lose the time and
> date, etc.
>
> Rod
>
> At 09:19 AM 4/29/02 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
>> Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:04:52 -0400
>> From: Todd Moody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: my intro
>> Message-id: <RLB6ZKG41ZXHC5YH3XIDYSRQ1T0OL.3ccc8e24@larry>
>>
>> Hey fellow PB owners,
>>
>>
>> Next stop: OS X 10.1. Armed with enough speed hacks, I think I can pull
>> it off, and not have to fiddle
>> with a dual-boot environment. I just want a nice devel platform where I
>> can code PHP, play with MySQL,
>> watch DivX movies, and have a *N*X command line. And maybe set up a
>> caching-only DNS server. If anyone
>> here has successfully installed Mac OS X 10.1 or higher on a legacy G3
>> PowerBook, I'd love to hear about it.
>>
>> Thanks for listening.
>>
>> --Todd
>>
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