Re: Upgrading Pismo

[VICTORIA.DUGGAN]

On Jan 2, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Tannis Baker wrote:


If you are not bothered about the cosmetics fitting flush, and you
are also confident with the insides of the Mac and the drives.


One more thing - what do you mean confident, Vicki? This machine has
always worked beautifully for me - except for the OEM DVD-ROM drive  
which

has never worked beautifully if at all.

I have read that they were sometimes troublesome but am now  
wondering if

the problem could that be something other than mechanical?

Tannis




Hi Tannis

You read into the mail to much! I meant that if you were confident  
with the take apart and re-assemble your -self.


Nothing more!!

 The Pismo i had i kept for the longest out of any G book i have  
owned, and only sold it on when i upgraded to a G4 Ti 1GHz.


vicki

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Re: Upgrading Pismo

[Bruce Johnson]

On Jan 2, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Tannis Baker wrote:



If you have 384 ram fitted then either the top or bottom already has
128 fitted meaning you would need another 256 chip. to get 512.


Oops you are right, Vicki!  That was a typo as I was looking at 256mg
prices - but looks like I might be smarter to go for 512 since I have
recently learned that pismos can now go to 1gb.  Thanks for the  
offer to
help - I am in Canada and have replaced memory before - although  
not in

the lower slot!

Tom and Vicki have both recommended buying a drive off of eBay and
fitting it myself but I must say I am leery of some of the work  
involved

after reading a link linked to a site sent to me by Tom.


If you can get a slotloader from a newer Powerbook being parted out,  
they fit right in; even without the bezel they work pretty well. This  
is just a matter of unscrewing the old drive, and attaching the new  
one. Slides right in.


Someday I'll dremel out the old bezel to fit it on the new drive.

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Re: Upgrading Pismo

[Tannis Baker]

>If you are not bothered about the cosmetics fitting flush, and you  
>are also confident with the insides of the Mac and the drives.

One more thing - what do you mean confident, Vicki? This machine has 
always worked beautifully for me - except for the OEM DVD-ROM drive which 
has never worked beautifully if at all.

I have read that they were sometimes troublesome but am now wondering if 
the problem could that be something other than mechanical?

Tannis

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Re: Upgrading Pismo

[Tannis Baker]

>
>If you have 384 ram fitted then either the top or bottom already has  
>128 fitted meaning you would need another 256 chip. to get 512.

Oops you are right, Vicki!  That was a typo as I was looking at 256mg 
prices - but looks like I might be smarter to go for 512 since I have 
recently learned that pismos can now go to 1gb.  Thanks for the offer to 
help - I am in Canada and have replaced memory before - although not in 
the lower slot!

Tom and Vicki have both recommended buying a drive off of eBay and 
fitting it myself but I must say I am leery of some of the work involved 
after reading a link linked to a site sent to me by Tom.

Fastmac, on the other hand, makes slot-load combos and supers that 
supposedly just slide right into the bay and they are not expensive - 
even compared to eBay which has similar tray-loading drives for about the 
same price.  (I don't want to replace my original drive with the same as 
it never worked and I do not trust the model - although this would be the 
cheapest alternative.)

Thanks for all the info - any more would be welcome,

Tannis 


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Re: Upgrading Pismo

[VICTORIA.DUGGAN]

I just subscribed to this list as I need some advice.


Welcome to the best place for info i have found,(and they are  
sometimes friendly)


I have a G3 500/384/20 Pismo with a disfunctional OEM DVD-ROM drive
running 9.2.2 which is networked to an iMac G5 (1.8/1GB/super-drive)
through a modem/router.


Decent set up

I read at that the pismo
handles Tiger nicely and through Charles Moore's article at:
  
that

fastmac sells a combo-drive that just slides into the Pismo with ease.

My questions for you fine folk are:

- to run Tiger, would I be better off replacing the lower RAM slot  
with

another 128mg (maxing the machine out at 512mg) - considering that my
laptop is not my primary machine (just the more user friendly one!)



If you have 384 ram fitted then either the top or bottom already has  
128 fitted meaning you would need another 256 chip. to get 512.


512 should be fine to run tiger with a couple of apps open. And Tiger  
runs fine on the pismo and is decent on the speed side also . But the  
pismo maxs at 1gb ram and also runs very nice with 1gb

- has anyone bought a combo-drive from the fastmac people? <
http://store.fastmac.com/index.php?cPath=6>


If you are not bothered about the cosmetics fitting flush, and you  
are also confident with the insides of the Mac and the drives. Then  
just shop on ebay for a laptop slot or tray loading combo drive and  
swap it out with the caddy that you have. Someone on this list has a  
link to a page with compatible drives, that just swap over. You will  
save yourself around $50-100 easy and have a drive that functions the  
same.


Thanks for any and all advice!

If you are in the Uk and need any help fitting I would do the install  
of the memory and drive for you.


Vicki



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Re: Upgrading Pismo

[Tom and Lisa Peters]

- to run Tiger, would I be better off replacing the lower RAM slot with
another 128mg (maxing the machine out at 512mg) - considering that my
laptop is not my primary machine (just the more user friendly one!)


The Pismo maxes out at 1 gig, not 512 Meg.


- has anyone bought a combo-drive from the fastmac people? <
http://store.fastmac.com/index.php?cPath=6>


Buy a used combo or superdrive on Ebay.  Refer to this page for which 
ones will work:


http://mywebpages.comcast.net/macdan/ebms.html#pismo_upgrades

Mad Dog

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