My Fellow PowerBook-philes, I have a few leftover machines which I need to resale in order to recoup the costs of the infamous "Get-Ye-GF-A-Mac-Laptop-Before-She-Flies-To-Italy" incident.
Well..... One of them is real nice, an upgraded Wallstreet to 466 Mhz and with full RAM. I have Mac OS X.2.8 running on it. But the screen does this funky thing where the backlight on the LCD stops working when it boots up. To fix it, all you need to do is hit the "brightness" button. When it goes to sleep, however, it seems to not want to come back up. I have read on Lowendmac.com (I'll find this link later) that if you boot into OS 9, let it go to sleep, then bring it back up, boot back into OS X then it should be fixed. (At least until you let your batteries die while your Wallstreet is asleep again.) Well.... sounds easy to fix, yes? No. I have an OS 9.1 install disk. It is a backup copy of a broken one, so it is a CD-R. I can't install OS 9 with it. (Won't boot into OS 9.) I then tried to copy over an OS 9 folder which works booting another Wallstreet which only runs OS 9 by copying it onto a Flash Card and then back into the OS 9 folder. No dice. Won't boot. What I do is go to System Preference-> Startup Disk and then choose the OS 9 partition with the OS 9 start folder. I then reboot and it reboots into a gray screen. I then have to spend the next half-hour to an hour trying to convince it to reboot into the Mac OS X.2 install CD I have and then I have to reinstall OS X. (BTW, the LCD Backlight will not work when doing this. Loads of fun.) I'd really like to resell this computer at least at the same price I bought it at, maybe more, and I think I would be able to do so if I could 1) get the backlight working and/or 2) get OS 9 to dual boot on it. I could really use the money in order to look into upgrading my GF's Pismo to use iSight (if possible) or just paying down some credit cards before I go to law school. Does anyone have ANY ideas on what I can do??? It's such a lovely machine, I hate to have to sell it ... but the money man calls. :-( Sincerely, Pacer the Loon -- 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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com> 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
