Hi all. I just joined.
I recently came into posession of a broken G3 Powerbook "Pismo". It
seemed relatively complete (no hard drive, no keyboard, no psu, but
cpu, ram, dvd-rom, battery). I borrowed a 3400 from work, and tried
out the pismo with it, but nothing.
I completely disassembled it, down to the power connector, to find
that it had sheared from the board:
http://www.umlautllama.com/gallery/pismo/IMG_0562
so I desoldered, straightned, and reconnected it:
http://www.umlautllama.com/gallery/pismo/IMG_0566
I plugged it all back together, along with a 20gig spare drive I
had, and it gave me the ? Folder. YAY!
I just got done installing OS 9 on a 1 gig partition, and OS 10.2 on
the remaining partition. It all works really well.
(I do still need a shield for the ram/cpu area, keyboard, and power supply)
I just finally found my 10.4 DVD-R, and was about to install that
over 10.2, to find out that for some reason, the DVD-ROM drive (the
stock apple one) doesn't seem to read DVD-R discs... or at least, it
doesn't read DVD-R discs that I've burnt.
Is this a common problem, or am I doing something wrong on my end?
-s
(I've also got a 15" TiBook 500 (Rev A), and my current machine, a
15" AlBook 1.67ghz... which belong to work, but for all intents and
purposes, my machines.)
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Scott Lawrence
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Nice rework on the sound/AC board.
From what I gather the lombard/pismo DVDs are getting flaky by now.
Luckily, you can replace the mechanisms with a number of other
devices you can find on Ebay. This is a good reference page:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/macdan/ebms.html#dvdr
Mad Dog
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