Help! Wallstreet Has a Problem
Greetings! Turned on my WS (266/192/6) this morning and I got the chime and I guess it started up, but the screen is totally bright grey with no HD or trash icons. I never saw the Mac Happy Face or the OS, etc. The mouse/pointer are working, but I cannnot get to the control panel or anything (no menu bar or anything, for that matter - just a bright grey screen from top to bottom. It won't even go to sleep when I close the lid). I put the Norton utilities disk in the zip and restarted, but of course that's no help because I cannot get to the control panel to switch Start-Up Disks. I also forced restart twice but still the same thing - zilch except the chime and the bright grey screen. The other day I read on this list about turning off the memory in order to lessen the time between the chime and the actual start-up. So I did do that but I don't remember when I did it, nor do I remember for sure if I turned Mac off and back on since I did that. (I was using it all day Sunday and it worked fine! I turned Mac off about 10 pm last night and all was well!) Any clues anyone? I'm on digest mode so any backchannel replies are fine as well. (Thank goodness for old backup Macs! It was a member of one of the lemlists who said it's always a good idea to keep your old Mac for situations just like this! Otherwise, how would one get online to ask for help!) ;-) Thanks very much or any tips from the knowledgeable tipsters! Best regards, Gail -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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:G-Books-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:G-Books-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lemlists.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Wallstreet-MacResQ's IBM HD's
You're welcome, Don, and that was nice of you to say. Best regards/BG Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 17:45:07 -0700 From: Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Wallstreet-MacResQ's IBM HD's And thanks for the nice summary -- I was trying to follow the thread but it seems you put all the relevant info in one place! Don -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Apple Laptops on TV
FWIW: Last night's (repeat) episode of NBC's Law Order, Special Victims Unit: In the final scene, the female detective goes into the office of the dept's. criminal profiler, Dr. George Wong, and he was sitting at his desk using his Apple laptop. Which one? I don't know. The white apple-logo on the lid was huge. It looked at least 3.5 times as large as the apple-logo on the lid of my Wallstreet. BG -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: zip same for 99 98 expansion bay ?
Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 13:01:32 -0500 From: Diane Gamm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: VST 250-mb Zips on Sale Question, though: ...Will this VST-Zip fit there?... Best regards/BG BG - No, the expansion bay drives for 99/00 models won't fit the Wallstreet; it's a different model. Do a search on eBay for Wallstreet and zip drive, and you can see the physical difference between those and the later version. They seem to be available often on eBay, though not as common as the Pismo model. Hope that helps, Diane - Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 15:07:39 -0400 From: Sue Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: zip same for 99 98 expansion bay ? Will this VST-Zip fit there? nope! not from my experience with switching from my 98 wallstreet to 99 lombard bronze.. I had to buy a different one for the bronze... and when I compared them, they definitely are different.. sorry !!! sue Thanks to Diane and Sue for setting me straight, and advising where to go looking. Best/BG -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Expansion Bay products
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 17:39:13 -0500 From: bill wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Expansion Bay products Expansion Bay for 1998 I contacted VST and they said sorry the zip drives would not work on the older (1998) powerbooks. However, I contacted the Smart Disk online store and they had expansion bay Zip 250s and also SuperDrive exapansions which take floppies and 120MB disks. Prices were a little higher, 50 to 60 bucks. Here is their address http://store.yahoo.com/smartdiskstore/smarvstexzip.html bill Thanks for the research, Bill. Best/BG -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Zip 100 Drive for PB G3 for sale
From: Todd Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 09:21:55 -0400 Subject: Re: Zip 100 Drive for PB G3 for sale Diane Gamm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd, on the reliability question, I've been using zip drives and disks for years -... (snipped) ...the dreaded click of death sounds bad, but I actually have never known anyone who has experienced it. (Now, where's that wood to knock on?) - Diane Hi Diane, I believe that CoD mainly affected Iomega drives (esp. Zip and Jaz, but maybe others) manufactured before 1999 or so... (snipped) ...Equipped with your drives' serial numbers, you should be able to check the website to see whether any of your drives qualify. In my personal experience, I've had one internal IDE 100MB Zip drive that suffered from the CoD (exhibited symptoms in '99), and the consequential damage to my Zip disks wasn't obvious until it was too late (about a year later); by then, my project data was seriously corrupted. During that time, I used the disk in several blue-and-white G3s in a multimedia lab, so I wonder whether those drive are kaput now... http://www.texasatty.com/iomgcod.html contains a very brief synopsis of what CoD does. What this page fails to mention is that a disk damaged by an affected drive is capable of damaging other drives. Hopefully you'll never have to deal with that! Had to jump in here re: the CoD... I have a 100mb ext. Zip purchased about 1997, and it began clicking late last year... sometimes it clicks and other times not (I never knew if it is the drive itself, or the individual disks causing the clicking???) -- Currently waiting for an adapter I ordered to use this Zip drive with my Wallstreet. -- Now that I see from Todd's post that it actually damages the disks contents of the disks, this is a big concern! Yipes! Maybe I should quit using the zip drive altogether. Also, my Dad had given me a burned CD awhile back with a bunch of old stuff on it, and one of the items was this, below, re: one person's experience repairing this clacking as they called it... I'm not sure if they are describing the same CoD... What do you guys think of this? BG QUOTE: Zip drives: clacking cartridge problem, surprising cure: Bryan*** writes that, at the high school where he works, 20 out of the 25 internal Zip drives in their Power Mac 6500s started to fail. The drives were replaced but many of the replacements also began to fail. The main symptom was that, after inserting a cartridge, it would make a clacking sound and fail to mount. They needed to insert a paper clip in the eject hole just to get the cartridge out. The solution?: Take off the two plastic bevels that cover the access to the Zip drive (not an easy task according to Bryan). This reveals the eject button (accessible on external Zip drives but covered up in the 6500). When there is no cartridge in the drive, restart the Mac and then press this button. Although I see no clear reason why this should have any effect, Bryan says that almost every drive that he has done this with now works without a problem. Updates: Keith*** reports that the same cure (pressing the eject button when no cartridge is in the drive) fixed the same clacking cartridge problem he was having on an external Zip drive! This looks promising. Live and learn. A reader writes: 'This is the standard reset procedure for all Iomega Jaz and Zip drives. Iomega Tech Support passed this along about 3 months ago.' -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: WS: Bus Error/Frozen Pointer
Hi Jeff:
Thanks for the reassurance! ;)
The time/date was not holding from day to day, even when there was no
bus error. So I did the Battery Reset and today all is well, date/time at
start-up as it should be!
Best regards/BG
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 12:44:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff Lentz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: WS: Bus Error/Frozen Pointer
My WS '98 goes through spells like that. Who knows. I've had most of the
problems, and had them all corrected, and it still does it occasionally. Take
heart, all is (mostly) fine in the world.
- Jeff
--- BG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings!
Twice in approx. 5 days, WS ('98) after start up shows a bus error ( bomb)
with pointer frozen. Did a Force Restart both times (apple
key-control-power button), and all is fine, except time/date, which I
corrected.
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Re: blank e-mails?
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:50:02 -0400 Subject: Re: blank e-mails? From: Eric D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 26/4/02 19:34, BG at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gene Eric: I received 5 such emails from the LEM Swap list just now... (Friday, 4/26); yet also one junk mail with no From address; and two legit newsletters also not showing their From addresses... If I understand Eric's reply below, this means these emails are coming from PeeCee people who do not know they are infected? Question (just to make sure): Does it affect my WS in any way and what I am mailing out (via OE for Mac 5.0.2)? No, Macs are _virtually_ immune to viruses. There are a few that can take advantage of OE vulnerabilities (if you want to be safe, upgrade to OE 5.0.3 (free download)) but they can't harm your computer. Hi Eric: Thank you for the reply. I did think Macs were pretty safe in the virus dept., but just making sure. Also, thanks for the tip about OE 5.0.3. I hadn't heard that there was an updated version. Best regards/BG -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: blank e-mails?
Hi Gene Eric: I received 5 such emails from the LEM Swap list just now... (Friday, 4/26); yet also one junk mail with no From address; and two legit newsletters also not showing their From addresses... If I understand Eric's reply below, this means these emails are coming from PeeCee people who do not know they are infected? Question (just to make sure): Does it affect my WS in any way and what I am mailing out (via OE for Mac 5.0.2)? Thanks! /BG gd2 of ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 4/25/02 10:58 AM: Is anyone else getting blank e-mails from the list? They come into my box with no sender listed, a subject of no subject, and usually nothing in the body, but sometimes a signature or something. In the blank ones, if I view source, I sometimes get the sender's signature. Just started a few days ago. -Gene Eric D. of ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 4/25/02 5:22 PM: Hello, I've noticed some comments about people receiving blanks posts on some LEM lists, and (I think) of people receiving virus-laden e-mails from people whom they know, but who didn't send them. I suggest you check out this link: http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,52055,00.html Once active on a computer, Klez searches for files containing e-mail addresses. It randomly selects one as the sender, and then transmits e-mails with attachments containing the virus to the rest of the collected addresses. and The virus can launch automatically when users click to preview or read e-mails bearing Klez on systems that have not been patched for a year-old vulnerability in Internet Explorer, Outlook and Outlook Express. Klez only affects PCs running Microsoft's Windows operating system. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Installing Software/WS '98
Brian Scott Oplinger of ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 4/24/02 2:01 AM: Brian Scott Oplinger of ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 4/23/02 1:40 AM: When I tried to install the Printer software on the WS, it got part-way through and then said Insert Disk #2 in order to complete installation. Well, naturally, since I do not have a floppy drive on the WS, there was no way I could do this. (Neither do I have a zip drive nor CDRW on the WS). I'd suggest using disk copy to make images of the 2 floppies. Then copy those images to your WS, use disk copy on that to mount both, open the first, double click the installer. You should be set then. I've done this in the past with multiple floppy install disks and a newer mac. Thank you Brian! The expertise/experience and generous assistance of yourself and other group member is Priceless! Your instructions have been followed and printer software and stuffit now happily installed on the WS and all is working great! (I figured there probably was some simple solution right under my nose... thanks for pointing it out!) Best regards/BG Glad to hear that worked for you. Just a bit of advice, back up those images or you'll be out looking for some way to read those floppies in the future, perhaps after you've gotten rid of whatever machine you used to make those disk images now. The best compression for disk images that I've found is the native disk copy compressed mode. Alternatively you can stuff them, but then will need to unstuff to use of course. Also, in case other folk try this for some software of theirs, if you do use stuffit deluxe, don't let it mount the disk images for you, use disk copy. I've found some installers, especially those in apple software releases aren't happy if disk copy didn't do the mounting. B Ahhh, yes, a Word to the Wise. Thanks for the reminder on backing up images. And also that extra tip about letting disk copy do the mounting. There are all sorts of temperamental quirks in software/hardware, and Trial Error by Others is the Best Teacher! ;) Thanks again for sharing./BG -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Installing Software/WS '98
Brian Scott Oplinger of ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 4/23/02 1:40 AM: When I tried to install the Printer software on the WS, it got part-way through and then said Insert Disk #2 in order to complete installation. Well, naturally, since I do not have a floppy drive on the WS, there was no way I could do this. (Neither do I have a zip drive nor CDRW on the WS). I'd suggest using disk copy to make images of the 2 floppies. Then copy those images to your WS, use disk copy on that to mount both, open the first, double click the installer. You should be set then. I've done this in the past with multiple floppy install disks and a newer mac. Thank you Brian! The expertise/experience and generous assistance of yourself and other group member is Priceless! Your instructions have been followed and printer software and stuffit now happily installed on the WS and all is working great! (I figured there probably was some simple solution right under my nose... thanks for pointing it out!) Best regards/BG -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: iBook batt's....Re: Going Batty Over Batteries
No problem... I sort of thought that's what you were thinking... I do like that feature on the PB's - green light = go! Best/BG --- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 00:19:49 -0500 Subject: Re: iBook batt'sRe: Going Batty Over Batteries From: Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, I was talking about the charge indicator directly on the battery but I just realized that you have an iBook and, as such, your batteries don't have any indicator on them, as opposed to those in the PowerBook G3 Series. Apologies... Laurent Daudelinhttp://home.cox.rr.com/nemesys Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: VST-10gb Exp Bay Drive
Update: A prevous poster mentioned kernel software, so I checked out the kernel site Tuesday night and emailed them. Their reply came Wed./further below. Merely FYI for anybody else who might have been interested. Thanks/BG (snipped) I just got my VST 10GB expansion bay drive today from shoplet (I ordered on March 23). When Shoplet told me they were backordered I immediately Sherlocked the web for these drives. For anyone who is still interested in finding one, kernelsoftware.com reported 4 in stock at about $50 each... (snipped) --- From: Kari Stetzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Kernel Software, Inc. Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:04:22 -0600 Subject: RE: VST-10gb Exp Bay Drive for WS Thank you for your inquiry. This item has been discontinued and is no longer in stock. Please visit us again at www.kernelsoftware.com/manufacturers.html http://www.kernelsoftware.com/manufacturers.html Sincerely, Kernel Software, Inc. www.kernelsoftware.com http://www.kernelsoftware.com/ Kari Stetzer Sales Manager -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: VST-10gb Exp Bay Drive
Update: A prevous poster mentioned kernel software, so I checked out the kernel site Tuesday night and emailed them. Their reply came Wed./further below. Merely FYI for anybody else who might have been interested. Thanks/BG (snipped) I just got my VST 10GB expansion bay drive today from shoplet (I ordered on March 23). When Shoplet told me they were backordered I immediately Sherlocked the web for these drives. For anyone who is still interested in finding one, kernelsoftware.com reported 4 in stock at about $50 each... (snipped) --- From: Kari Stetzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Kernel Software, Inc. Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:04:22 -0600 Subject: RE: VST-10gb Exp Bay Drive for WS Thank you for your inquiry. This item has been discontinued and is no longer in stock. Please visit us again at www.kernelsoftware.com/manufacturers.html http://www.kernelsoftware.com/manufacturers.html Sincerely, Kernel Software, Inc. www.kernelsoftware.com http://www.kernelsoftware.com/ Kari Stetzer Sales Manager -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: iBOok batt's....Re: Going Batty Over Batteries
Hope this is not a duplicate, but I don't see it in the digest. This one was submitted (Jeremy) before I replied to David. Thanks/bg Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:35:52 -0600 From: Jeremy Derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Going Batty Over Batteries At 8.30 AM -0500 4/2/02, BG wrote: I zapped PRAM twice... If you're hitting the little reset button inside the grill, you'll lose the date/time every time you hit that button. That's the power manager reset button and shouldn't be used to shutdown/restart the computer. Instead, just hold in the power button for ~5 seconds. Hi Jeremy: What I did was hold down option-apple-R-P keys. I got that idea from the Mac's Help Guide. :-/ Since then, with help from yooz guys and finally finding the service manual online for the ibook, I am seeing things a little more clearly... 8-) Re: the lithium-ion battery and yoyo adapter: I'm trying to determine if both of these batteries I have are ready for the dumpster. I left the adapter on for 24 hours. Then last night it was amber and the control strip said battery is being recharged. It was amber for about 20 minutes on two occasions. Then it turns green in between, and the control strip then says, battery has been removed from your computer (even though battery is still installed). This could be a problem with the battery or the adapter. or the iBook itself. The best way to figure this out is to first reset the power manager properly (read kbase article #14449 at http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n14449)... Had 2 batteries that came with the ibook. I was forewarned they may or may not even work, hence my experiment. I read somewhere to recharge them 24 hours before even using them. That has now been done with both batteries (the first battery described in first post above). The second battery: During the last 24 hours, the adapter light remained amber, so I was hopeful it was actually recharging the battery. The control strip even says (again) that battery is charged. However, when adapter is removed - out go all the lights! (all power lost). I also read the article above (thank you!) and did as it instructed (2nd battery). But date/time still remains 1/1/04, but instead of 12 AM, it says 12:25 AM (maybe that's from my previously resetting the clock yesterday?) ...and then test with known good adapters and batteries (one at a time, if you swap both at the same time, you won't know which fixed the problem). If you swap batteries and adapters with known goods, and reset the PMU, and the issue persists then it's likely a problem with the Power Manager in the iBook. I am thinking the adapter does work since it does power the ibook (even with dead batteries). And since it appears both batteries are kaput, I am not able to swap with known goods. But thank you for outlining exactly what to do. Very helpful. if you ...don't really need the batteries, should you just take them out of the computer and set them aside? No. Batteries run out of juice eventually and, typically, if they run down through not being used, that tends to ruin them. Thanks for the advice. Not sure if these ran down from typical use (most likely, by prior owner) or from not being used... And/or does it hurt anything to leave them IN and never use them? Not really. OK! Any computer company still using NiCad batteries should be shot, dragged into the streets, hanged, beat, thrown to the wolves, and then REALLY hurt. ;D Hey, now, my uncle up North still sells NiCad batteries for computers! (not really!) :) My cell phone has a LiIon battery in it, too, and I've never worried about running it down... I just charge it whenever I think about it, and the battery still lasts most of a week, if not more. Depending on how much I actually use it, of course. Jeremy Derr[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Jeremy. I think my brain needs a recharge after all of this! -- O -- /BG -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: iBook batt's....Re: Going Batty Over Batteries
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 16:14:26 -0600 From: Jeremy Derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: iBook batt'sRe: Going Batty Over Batteries At 6.29 AM -0500 4/4/02, BG wrote: For all intents and purposes, I am assuming both batteries are shot. :) I think it's your iBook, actually. If two batteries both exhibit similar symptoms. the odds are it's the machine they're going into, not the batteries. -- Jeremy Derr[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - H... that opens up a whole 'nother area of mystery... ;) Thanks for the opinion, though! Best/BG -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: iBOok batt's....Re: Going Batty Over Batteries
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:13:15 EST Subject: iBOok batt'sRe: Going Batty Over Batteries THe iBook is a very unique Powerbook, in several angles (not counting it's strange resemblance to a toilet seat).. It does NOT have a PRAM battery, but rather the power is kept from the main battery. THere is a smalll capacitor which will keep the PRAM hot for a minute or so, if you pull the battery (to switch them), but it doesn't have any other power source. Unfortunately, it also doesn't allow the AC power to keep the PRAM hot, so pulling the battery (or having a totally bogus battery) will keep your PRAM stuff very screwed up. Thanks, David Wegener Wegener Media www.wegenermedia.com Hi and Thanks for this major education about the ibook. Who would have guessed? Sounds like all bad news to me since I thought I could use it w/adapter only and not even bother with batteries. Are all of the ibooks made this way (old and new ones)? So, an ibook must ALWAYS have a working battery in it, eh? Time to go shopping... Why the intermittent amber light (evidently signaling a brief false charge)? (It did it again tonight). Just curious. Thanks mucho. Funny about the toilet seat. :) Best regards/BG --- --original message-- From: BG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:30:19 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Going Batty Over Batteries Hello... Any advice for a novice on batteries, specifically and in general, and/or links to further info? (The Help Guide on the macs are not always so helpful!) :-/ Specifically: Recently acquired Rev. B iBook (300mhz, 128ram, 6gb, OS 9.1): Date and time is sometimes not holding; the computer is slugglish starting up; sometimes the submenus do not expand, it is freezing up, pointer gets paralyzed, etc. Re: the date/time, Mac Help Menu says something about may need a backup battery replaced by authorized apple retailer. Is this backup battery the same as what is referred to as PRAM? I zapped PRAM twice, and that helped the date/time... for awhile anyway... but when I've had to force quit/shutdown, the date/time is lost again... (that never used to happen on my older DT mac, and I forced/shutdown it many times.) ;) Re: the lithium-ion battery and yoyo adapter: I'm trying to determine if both of these batteries I have are ready for the dumpster. I left the adapter on for 24 hours. Then last night it was amber and the control strip said battery is being recharged. It was amber for about 20 minutes on two occasions. Then it turns green in between, and the control strip then says, battery has been removed from your computer (even though battery is still installed). Could it also be a problem with the yoyo adapter? BTW, I also installed Battery Reset, but that didn't seem to help. General question: For future reference, if you always use the laptop w/power adapter, and don't really need the batteries, should you just take them out of the computer and set them aside? And/or does it hurt anything to leave them IN and never use them? And/or like my cell phone, should batteries be used until they drain completely, and then recharge them over and over, even though you don't really need to be using them (because I'm always by a power outlet)? Thanks for any/all opinions education. Best regards/BG (digest mode) -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Forward Delete
Hello: Newly using OS 9.2.1 on a WS. I had saved the previous tips on Forward Delete and checked out the below link but it said it was for OS-X. I searched but found no solution for a forward delete in 9.2.1. Any suggestions? (I had FD on my DT keyboard, so it is hard to get used to not having such a key on the laptop.) I also appreciated the recent tips on cleaning the LCD! Many thanks/BG - Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 13:25:58 -0500 Subject: Re: Forward-Delete in OS X?/8.6 From: Darin Ames [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out Power Delete: http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=12175db=mac Works great. All the best, in all things. Darin Ames [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.crooner.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: date/time reset when starting w/no extensions
I have an iBook here that's doing the same thing, i.e., every time I turn it on, it tells me the date is 1904, even though I have reset the time/date several times. Did anyone answer Todd on this? I'm on digest also. Thanks/BG --- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 00:11:33 -0500 Subject: date/time reset when starting w/no extensions From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] G4 PowerBook 550Mhz, 512 MB RAM, Rev. B When I boot in OS9 with extensions off to rebuild desktop, or for other reasons, the date resets to 1904, as if the PRAM battery were dead. Upon booting back up with extensions on, the date is still 1904. (snip) Thanks, todd -- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
