What is a Lombard DVD card?
I have a 333 Mhz Lombard and when I recently upgraded the CD-ROM drive to a DVD drive, I found that it actually played DVD movies. Cool! Subsequently, I noticed that in the Apple System Profiler, it states that there is a DVD card present. My question is this: Is this DVD card a part of the motherboard? Or is it a separate component hidden in the bowels of my machine that could conceivably be transferred to another Lombard? Ted __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: What is a Lombard DVD card?
Normally a 333 Lombard requires a DVD decoder card that is inserted into the PC Card slot in order for a DVD to play if you have a DVD drive. It might be that you have a 400 Lombard that has a 333 CPU replacing the orignal 400 CPU. The 400 had the decoder hardware on the motherboard. Have you checked the label on the bottom of the case to see which model you have? J - reply: John, Hmm...that is kind of weird. Apple system profiler says that the processor is a 333Mhz, and the lower case is marked as such. However, I bought the Lombard from an eBay seller, who said that she had needed to have some work done on it. Maybe they replaced the motherboard. Anyways, thanks for the info. Ted __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Lombard is acting flaky. PMU malfunction?
Lombard acting flaky; PMU problems? Hello! I have a problem with my Lombard and wondered if anyone had any advice. It has been acting flaky over the past week or so after a loose screw in the case caused it to short out. (Yes, that was really dumb of me ) It will boot up just fine after pushing the rear reset button. If I shut down the computer, it will then allow me to boot up again. But, if I try do a restart command, the computer will just shut down and then not do anything. I have to push the rear reset button again to get it to boot up. Ive already tried the hold-the-reset-button-for-30-seconds trick to reset the power manager. Does this sound like a PMU malfunction? Im not an electronics expert, so my only means of testing a component is to swap it out and see if the problem goes away. So before I start investing money in replacement parts, I thought Id see if anyone had any ideas about what might be wrong. I know that the PRAM battery is shot, so Ill probably be replacing that sometime anyways. Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom. Also, does anyone have a spare Lombard keyboard they'd be interested in selling for cheap? Ted __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861 -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
I think that I fried my Lombard
Hello! I think that I just fried something in my Lombard... I have recently done some minor upgrades to my Lombard. I put in more RAM, swapped in a larger HD and upgraded the OS to Panther. I had thought in the last few days that I MIGHT have heard something rattling in there, but I whenever I'd recheck, I didn't hear it. So...I assumed that it was okay. Well, last night, as I was working with it on my lap, there was a loud pop, and the computer froze up. Shortly thereafter, I smelled something like burnt plastic. After reopening the computer and removing almost everything, I found a small loose metal piece in the case under the hard drive. Now, I can't boot up from the hard drive. If I reset the PMU, I can get the computer to boot up from the Mac OS Install CD; the hard drive will show up on the desktop and all of my files (thankfully) appear. But then when I try to set the hard drive as the startup disk, it will only get as far as the startup sound. No startup screen appears at all. Using Disk First Aid didn't help, so I assume that it isn't the hard drive, but rather something on the motherboard. So any ideas on what I did? How can I figure out which component is at fault? Thanks, __ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
