Re: Questions about DVD-ROM in PDQ - HELP!

[Bob]

The National Enquirer reports at 4:34 PM +1000 10/29/04, Ben Dyer wrote:

>That model was never shipped with a built-in DVD decoder. The first
>laptop to have that as an option was the Lombard.
>
>The DVD drive will work as a disk drive without the DVD PCMCIA card,
>but you won't be able to play DVD video. Your only option for watching
>DVDs on that machine is to buy a DVD drive and the DVD PCMCIA card
>($50-80 each on eBay), and to use OS 9 (as OS X doesn't support
>hardware DVD decoding).

The last time I looked PBparts.com had the drive/PC Card combo for 
the Wallstreet. I'm not sure if they still do or not.

Also be aware that not all DVDs will play on a Mac.


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Re: Questions about DVD-ROM in PDQ - HELP!

[Ben Dyer]

That model was never shipped with a built-in DVD decoder. The first 
laptop to have that as an option was the Lombard.

The DVD drive will work as a disk drive without the DVD PCMCIA card, 
but you won't be able to play DVD video. Your only option for watching 
DVDs on that machine is to buy a DVD drive and the DVD PCMCIA card 
($50-80 each on eBay), and to use OS 9 (as OS X doesn't support 
hardware DVD decoding).

Cheers,
Ben
On 29 Oct 2004, at 16:16, Bill Gau wrote:
To all:
I have a PB G3 PDQ (266MHz, 3.81GB Drive) and I have a question about
the DVD Module available for these earlier powerbooks.
It appears you have to have a DVD PCMCIA card to accompany a DVD
drive, otherwise it won't work, UNLESS there is some mysterious DVD
Decoder module installed on the PB?  Is this true?  I know it was an
option on this PB, but the module likely is not soldered in unless it
was shipped with a DVD Drive.
Is there any way to tell if the DVD Decoder module is installed on
this PB (before I run out and buy a DVD ROM)?  Is there an easy way to
use a DVD-ROM with the PDQ?  Cheap, aftermarket versions?
Thanks in advance.
Bill
Mesa, AZ
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Questions about DVD-ROM in PDQ - HELP!

[Bill Gau]

To all:

I have a PB G3 PDQ (266MHz, 3.81GB Drive) and I have a question about
the DVD Module available for these earlier powerbooks.

It appears you have to have a DVD PCMCIA card to accompany a DVD
drive, otherwise it won't work, UNLESS there is some mysterious DVD
Decoder module installed on the PB?  Is this true?  I know it was an
option on this PB, but the module likely is not soldered in unless it
was shipped with a DVD Drive.

Is there any way to tell if the DVD Decoder module is installed on
this PB (before I run out and buy a DVD ROM)?  Is there an easy way to
use a DVD-ROM with the PDQ?  Cheap, aftermarket versions?

Thanks in advance.

Bill
Mesa, AZ

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Looking for loud alarms to set up on PB

[Amber]

Hi,

I am looking for loud alarms that I can set up on our Powerbooks to deter
thefts and also as motion detectors to determine when people may be
tampering with a Gbook when we are not in close proximity to our desks.

Can these be easily installed and how effective/sensitive are they ?

Dan


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Replacement DVD Drive for Pismo

[Tom Burke]

The DVD drive on my daughter's Pismo is showing signs of failure - 
about 50% of the time it won't read a CD when it's put into the drive. 
The drive whirrs but it's obviously not finding the directory header on 
the disk because after while the spinning stops, and no CD icon appears 
on the desktop. However, checking System Profiler itself shows the DVD 
drive there.

I know I could buy her a new DVD drive for the Pismo, either s/hand via 
eBay or even (at considerable expense...) new. But this is an old 
machine, and I'm not sure I want to spend too much money keeping it 
fettled. The other possibility that's occurred to me is to buy an 
external firewire optical drive. I believe LaCie do one (several?). Has 
anyone got any experience of running an external firewire DVD drive on 
an older PB? - Pismo or Lombard via a firewire port in a card?

Tom Burke
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Re: booting questions

[Clark Martin]

At 9:18 PM -0600 10/27/04, Bob wrote:
The National Enquirer reports at 3:57 PM -0700 10/27/04, Clark Martin wrote:
At 12:59 PM -0400 10/27/04, Herbert Goodfriend wrote:
 >>Unless someone proves me wrong, I'm almost positive that the
 >>Option-boot will *not* work on the Wallstreet. Another one of the
 >>quirks of venerable Wallstreet.
 >
 >
 >"Option-boot" (aka Startup Manager) is available only on machines
 >with Open Firmware. I believe that the first Power Book to be so
 >equipped was the Pismo.
Option-boot is, I think, only available on New World Macs (which
would include the Lombard PB).  It just checked and my PB3400c has OF
2.0.1.  AFAIK OF is in all PCI based machines, ie PB3400, PM 7200,
Performa / PM 5400 and later models.  The Wallstreet has OF but is
not New World so it doesn't do Option-boot.
Hi Clark,
  Is this a completely different principle than the Startup Manager
discussed here?


That is it.  According to that page it isn't in all New World Macs 
and isn't in the Lombard as I had thought.
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Re: office X

[Bruce Johnson]

On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, at 07:50 PM, michael Vogt wrote:
Thanks for all the help with this I will do some checking at the school
Michael & Sharon  Vogt <><
On Oct 27, 2004, at 6:23 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote:
Well, I'm late to this, but I have seen this if the Office X wasn't 
installed with the site license media but a regular Office disk, even 
with the site license serial number..

The site license media we have never asks for a serial number for 
Office for the Mac.

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Re: Pismo HD

[Mark Philip]

On Tuesday, Oct 26, 2004, at 11:34 Asia/Singapore, markemmanuel wrote:
I was thinking about getting a new book because i'm beginning to feel 
how slow my book is getting.  If a faster drive will make a 
significant boost in speed, maybe I'll just replace the dying HD.
Actually, I've replaced my dead 12GB HDD with a new IBM/Hitachi 40GB 
HDD with 8MB Cache. My Pismo 400 only has 192MB (I want to eventually 
get 1GB), but with the new HDD, Jaguar feels noticeably faster.

It really depends how fast your machine needs to be. The Pismo is still 
a very reliable machine and the only PowerBook, IMHO, without much 
cosmetic problems (unlike the Ti series).

HTH
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TiBook display repair (follow-up)

[gianfranco sciacca]

hello listers,
following up my previous posts some weeks ago concerning a TiBook with 
a dark display (after a bad "cleaning action"), I have finally got a 
replacement display assembly. My question I hope some tech on the list 
could address is:

I'd like to test quickly if just replacing the display fixes the 
problem (the inverter could be fried as well) before taking the machine 
apart (which I've never done before). Say I connect the data cable to 
the logic board, the backlight cable directly to the inverter 
(bypassing the cable extension), do I risk damaging the display or 
backlight if the inverter is bad? Or is it a test I can carry out with 
no risk?

cheers and thanks in advance for any help, gianfranco
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Re: booting questions

[Bob]

The National Enquirer reports at 1:36 PM +1000 10/28/04, Ben Dyer wrote:

>As that document indicates, the Startup Manager is only available on
>iMac/PowerMac G4/Pismo machines or later.

Yep, that's what the URL says.

>On the Wallstreet, holding
>down 'option' at startup dumps you straight into OS 9, no questions
>asked.

I wish that was the case...every time.

>Well, for the most part it does. There's all sorts of PRAM/OF
>oddness that's going on behind the scenes, so things don't always work
>exactly the way they should.

My experience and your comments agree completely. :-)


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