Re: Advice for replacement Powerbook
On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 10:51 PM, Geoff Doctor wrote: Well, if you are planing on running OSX or using any type of wireless, go for the pismo, the Lombard is a great classic machine, but lacks support for DVD, Wireless (3rd Party Driver for all cards, etc...), Video, and the 66MHz bus does not help. On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 09:12 PM, Thomas J Peterson wrote: I have resurected a wallstreet and have installed the 500 mhz g4 blue card into it. It is running 10.2.6 pretty well. no complaints, other than 1) no DVD, 2) no scsi, ie no cdrw. I just returned from the sticks with a 5300 to refurb, but I would rather trade the 5300 for an old yellow dog, then shoot the dog. A wall street would be a great step up from the 5300. I have a box of cards running on this old box, firewire, usb2, Orinoco wireless with Ioexpert driver, I removed a 12 in passive display and placed a 14 inch and this is why I love this old brick. I have sucessfully installed a 40 gig drive, split into 5 partitions, and have 2 256meg sdrams installed. Mandrake is pretty squirly but can look nice for about 3 reboots. then text only. FYI and not really very I. -- 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: Advice for replacement Powerbook
Let me know if you want to sell. Thanks On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 07:13 AM, Wayne wrote: Need your opinions. I have a Wallstreet now with start-up problems (probably the PMU). I am considering getting a used Powerbook instead of fixing, either the Pismo or Lombard. I do not have any need for Firewire (at the moment), but could use the USB ports. I would like to have a SCSI connector, so this all leans towards getting the Lombard. Is there anything else that makes a difference that I should consider between these 2 models? Appreciate any feedback. Wayne -- 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 --- -- 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: Wallstreet Start-Up Problem
My wallstreet was pulled from the dumpster, not able to startup. FN CTL SHIFT Power cycling would bring it up after a while. I assumed it to be a bad Backup battery or PMU. I replace the PMU (it came to me before the battery) and all has been swell since. Most of the symptoms below were experienced by me. I found my PMU on ebay from a pull a part guy. Peace On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 01:43 PM, Wayne wrote: I want to see if anyone can shed some light on the problems I have been having with my Powerbook: Powerbook Wallstreet, upgraded with Powerlogix 466, 256 Ram, IBM 20gig hd, Running system 9.1 Problem: After the system has been shut down overnight, the Powerbook will have several start up problems including bombs with various errors such as bus error, illegal instruction, etc. and freezes. It takes several forced re-starts but it eventually goes through and makes it to the end. Once a successful start-up is done, it runs all day fine without any problems. So far, I have re-installed the system software twice (I was running OSX, but removed it thinking the problem was in there), checked everything that was possible with Techtool Pro, tried with extensions off, without any peripherals connected, without battery or cd in bays, zapped the PRAM, all to no avail. I saw about resetting the Open Firmware command and tried this also. I was not able to bring up the screen using the key command, using System Disk utility from Apple, I can check the command manually and hold the keys down to bring up the screen, but then it will not allow any typing to give commands (frozen?). I have seen some feeds referring to the PMU unit as a possible culprit. I think the back up battery is also history (it is a few years old now), does anyone have any ideas or had similar problems that can give some insight? And, is there anyway of checking boards such as the PMU outside of shipping the system off to a service center? I appreciate any help, thanks. Wayne -- 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 --- -- 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: OS X (10.2.2) successful on Wallstreet
Congrats to AJ, Amanda, the lower slot will take a 256 low profile sodimm as will the upper, its space is large so up to a 2 inch Sodimm will fit the upper. And I am sending this from a wallstreet with 10.2.6. I have a 233 mhz board in a bag and a 500mhz Blue Chip running in it. Works as well as the daughters Ibook 700 G3. I am stumped as to how a unix system cannot deal with SCSI on this old book. Makes me scratch my head. TTFN On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 09:54 AM, AJ Ward wrote: Coolies! How'd ya get the ram to 512mb? Amanda - Original Message - From: Sid Barras [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 8:30 AM Subject: OS X (10.2.2) successful on Wallstreet Hi all, to those who've held back installing OS X on their wallstreet because of all the naysayers, well, count me as one who's found it to run very satisfactory. I did put in a fast (20gb 5400rpm travelstar) Hard drive, and maxed the memory at 512mb, but other than that, my 266mhz G3 wallstreet is stock. And it is running fine. I did give up a tiny bit of functionality (I've got to search for drivers that no longer work for some of my older peripheral, and may not find the), but I also installed OS 9.2.2 on the other partition of the hard drive, so I'll be able to start up on sys 9 if I need to use these again. There is no question that in my mind the OS X interface is much more elegant. It takes some getting used to, especially the file handling and look of the windows. I do also kind of miss all the control panels and the ability to fine tune things more, but I think I can get used to OS X. Sid B -- 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 --- -- 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 --- -- 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 ---
