My Fellow PowerBook-philes,
Well, I wrassled, and then wrestled, with my PowerBook Wallstreet with
the processor upgrade (466 mhz CPU, probably from NewerTech) and have
come to the following conclusion:
My processor upgrade is incompatible with OS 9.
It does work with OS X.2, however.
OSX.2 has the screen backlight going dark, though.
So the thought is maybe trying to install OS X.3, but then I have an
issue with no OS X.3 disks.
I need to recoup all costs on this machine plus some profit to make up
for some of the loss on another machine (a PowerBook Wallstreet, 1gig
HD, 233mhz) which I will inevitable have.
I don't see being able to do this without getting the screen problem
fixed, so I will probably have to try and find some OS X.3 CDs for cheap.
(I tried doing an install of OS X.4 on a Pismo, then switching the drive
like I heard you could do for a Lombard, but no dice ....)
I sure wish I knew why my CPU won't work with OS 9, though.
If anyone has had a similar experience, let me know. I am not sure if
the CPU upgrade is a NewerTech one or some other company (it IS a 466mhz
G3, that much I DO know).
Sincerely,
Pacer the Loon.
James Sanderson wrote:
I have a WS I that had the same issues only in in X.2.x. When I
upgraded to X.3.x, the backlighting and display sleep went away
problems and never came back. I will admit that I have never tried
putting the hard drive to sieep because I used to have an old
Travelstar 20 GB that would lock up if it did. I never changed the
setting after I changed the hard drive.
If you don't have Panther or you don't want to go through the trouble
of upgrading (the upgrade requires you to use Xpostfacto 3), let the
buyer put it on the machine. Take X off. The machine is upgradeable
and runs X.3 competently even with only 160 MB's, which is all I have
on mine. It's not blazing fast; it's useable if all the buyer wants
is to do word processing, reading mail, and surfing the internet. I
know that the more memory there is the better the machine operates; I
simply haven't put it on this one.
Forget all this other stuff. It doesn't sound like it's worth the
hassle, especially if you want to sell it.
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