I tried to post to G-books (for the first time) and it bounced back my message, ill havta figure that one out later.
As many as 10% of all of the first 1999 powerbook lombards had (have) a daughtercard that has a faulty chipset. The problems manifest themselves in the RAM upgrades. It has been said that they can only run the original 64 MB ram that shipped with it without trouble. I have one and have been running 192 MB without much trouble, i bought it used from Half.com and only ran into trouble when i tried to add a 256 Mb module. I immediately got severe glitches and program crashes, slow startups etc. etc..... It absolutely would not allow me to re-install OSX without failing, untill i put the original ram chips (that came with mine) back in... Its said that the problems get uglier with processor intensive applications, or running more than one application. I am only using mine to get online and dont suffer many problems other than AOL quiting unexpectadly... There is a program that you can download from either the lowendmac websight or xlr8yourmac.com. It runs in OS 9 and will tell you if you have the faulty processor. I originally did a Google search for 'Lombard problems OSX' which led me to the articles about the faulty daughtercards... I can only hope you got bad RAM cause its a cheaper fix than replacing the daughtercard. Brian Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frustrated Lombard owner whom would like to whack Steve Jobs upside his head with my Powerbook. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
