Re: Compact flash speed...?
I took my 128MB cf card from the camera that had about 80MB of pictures on it, and transferred them to the hdd. Now, it could either be that the system was pausing while accessing the hdd, but I believe it was while the machine was accessing the CF card. I did turn on VM and tell it to use the VM, but at the time didn't have any memory intensive apps on the machine. I'm going to try again in a few days, but I suspect will find the exact same results. Has anyone else tried this yet? I know a few ppl on the list were talking about it, but don't remember seeing any good feedback. I copy photos from my camera's media (smartmedia adapter) to the 1400 all the time, no pauses in the system that I notice; I've got the G3 with a faster 20 gig drive though. It just copies. when I boot from the CF card to run Speeddisk (I was the first one I think to do the CF system disk thing, and it was for the purpose of a bootable Norton tools volume this way) the thing runs just fine; and I don't notice that it's hugely slow or anything; it's fun to have it be COMPLETELY silent, no HD sounds :) The 1400's bus speed is anaemic and it's not made for much multitasking no matter what :/ I would blame it on the VM but I usually have VM turned on on my 1400 as well since 64 just isn't much. If you have a stock HD, those are very slow, just buying something modern will be about a 2X speedup in your subjective feeling of speed. And your drive might be fragmented badly? Anyway copying files off my Smartmedia is certainly not annoying, works pretty fast and smooth here. B -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: 5300
Hi everyone, new to this list. I bought a PB 5300 off of ebay a month ago. (24/500/256 colors) No battery, but power supply. Had to have power connector on back fixed, as connection broke loose from solder. The repair place said this is quite common with powerbooks, especially the new ones. Is it? Anyway, ever since I have had it, it will start up if there there is no power stored up in the internal battery. But I don't get this as it won't hold the correct date, unless it has been on awhile and I restart it right away. And anyway again, if some power has been stored up and then turned off for awhile, it will not restart, but I get a green glow light in the moniter lid, and until that completely goes out, it will not start up. I also bought a 28.8 megahertz pc modem and it works. But what a dog. Don't know if it's the 5300 or the pc modem. It takes forever to display web pages, I might as well go out watch the grass grow, may be faster. It connects at 28.8, but man what a slooow machine or modem. Any suggestions anyone? TIA God Bless! Junior [EMAIL PROTECTED] John 3:16.Ý For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life! I don't think you can count on a 28.8kbps modem to be fast!!! Even 33.6kbps is slower than grass. The only decent modems that are dial up are either an x2 56k or a v.90 56k (v.90 is usually faster even though both are rated at 56k. I had an x2 56k modem and it would only connect at 33.6) My suggestion: Get a New Modem! Your connection speed is not your computer. -- God Bless You, too! Andrew a.k.a.- The MacFreak I fear that when Bill Gates dies he will find a way to create a monopoly in hell and steal the power of evil from the devil himself. -iJon from MacRumors.com -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: PB 3400 OS
on 4-09-2003 4:50, PowerBooks at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd disagree. I have the 144mb and I had 9.1 on here for a long time. But 8.6 is so much lighter on its feet. Well, there you go. ;-) The best advice is probably to upgrade the RAM and then try 8.6 and 9.1 and see which one you like best. I probably should have mentioned that my 3400 is a 240 MHz model with a 5400 RPM hard drive upgrade, so my mileage on OS 9 and someone else's might not be the same. It might not be so hot on a 180 or 200 MHz model with the stock hard drive. The hard disk makes a big difference on the 3400, as it does on any pre-G3 PowerBook. Good advice. I too have a 3400/240 with 144MB and a new faster 20GB HD, and 9.1 - with lots of extensions disabled - runs really well. I think the key is, as someone said, to disable or trash the extensions you won't be using. Even with the MS trio of memory hogs (Outlook 5.05, IE 5.1 and Word 98) installed, and virtual memory set to 145MB, the system uses 19-20MB, so it's a fairly lean, fast setup. And if you can go with alternatives to MS, like iCab, Eudora and, say, Nisus 4.1.6 (or Appleworks, or Word 5.1a), you'll never have any memory problems. I have seen guys running X on a 3400, but it wasn't pretty. Good luck. Chris -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Compact flash speed...?
I copy photos from my camera's media (smartmedia adapter) to the 1400 all the time, no pauses in the system that I notice; I've got the G3 with a faster 20 gig drive though. It just copies. My 5300 has noticeable delays while copying large files (1MB or more) off my CF adapter. My Wallstreet does this too (which is odd...). On the 5300, I'd pin it down to the custom TREX PC Card controller not having DMA and forcing all the data through the CPU. I don't know why this would be the case with the Wallstreet's TI CardBus controller, though The PCI bridge ought to be more intelligent than that. As far as the actual speed of CF, you are far more likely to saturate the CF read/write mechanism than you are to saturate your 33MHz system bus or TREX controller. We did a little informal study of this issue a few months ago (I think it related to FireWire PC Card throughput, actually, but it still applies) and I'm pretty sure we came to a conclusion that would suggest you should never have throughput problems with CF cards (unless they are something ridiculous like 32x speed). when I boot from the CF card to run Speeddisk (I was the first one I think to do the CF system disk thing, and it was for the purpose of a bootable Norton tools volume this way) the thing runs just fine; and I don't notice that it's hugely slow or anything; it's fun to have it be COMPLETELY silent, no HD sounds :) I don't know if you were exactly the first - this idea has been floating around for years... But it sure is nice to have a silent PowerBook, isn't it?! Heck, this idea has been taken to extremes: witness http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/hardware/pb150/ Peace, Drew -- Author of ClassicStumbler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.alksoft.com/ Visit the PowerBook 5300 FAQ! http://www.alksoft.com/5300_FAQ/ -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Contrary 1400
We have tried about everything I can think of. We ran disk Dr. and then defraged it. Then we decided to completely reload the os and all the software. NOTHING HELPS. Do any of you have an idea what to do now. I am sending this from the machine now and it is working fine. It is running OS 8.6, when this started a few days ago I was running 9.1 with no problems. You have some sort of temperature-related problem, likely with the logic board. what happens if you start with the battery out - that would aid the cooling ? just a guess but that maybe could give some clue ? k -- -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Strange HDD problem
Hello, On my 3400, the Apple HD Set-Up from OS 9.1 on an external SCSI HDD recognizes this drive - Seagate ST9816AG; putting the same app on a Disk Tools 7.6.1 floppy will not allow the drive to be visible - although that could be a hardware (motherboard) problem(*); but another drive, a Toshiba MK3205MAV is recognized without any conditions. I can't use the Seagate anyways because it's too thick. I need to show a buyer that the Seagate is working (he doesn't have a laptop to test the drive). The Seagate is set as master (http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/ata/st9816ag.html), as was the Toshiba (http://www.mm.mtu.edu/drives/toshiba/ide/mk3205/hdd3205e.htm). Thanks for any suggestions George *Does the HDD bracket have a 'secret' function which is deactivated when the bracket is not properly installed? This might be a problem, as the drive is too thick. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: PB 3400 Power Manager Board?
Hi Roger, What did you clean them with? George --- Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cleaned the PM board contacts/pins last night and all is working/charging now. --- Roger Volk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mac, __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: PB 3400 OS
On 9/6/03 10:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen guys running X on a 3400, but it wasn't pretty. I'd like to try this, actually. How do I go about doing this? The only OSX CD I have is the one that came with my 17 G4. I used that CD to install OSX on my Blue White G3 so I'm pretty sure it will install on any computer. I want to insall it on the 3400c. Just to see what its like. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: 5300 'REA' SET TO END SOON!!!
Hi everyone, new to this list. I bought a PB 5300 off of ebay a month ago. (24/500/256 colors) No battery, but power supply. Had to have power connector on back fixed, as connection broke loose from solder. The repair place said this is quite common with powerbooks, especially the new ones. Is it? I hope you didn't pay too much to have it fixed unless they did it under the Apple REA Program? I guess it's a good a time as any to point out here once more that the Apple Repair Program is set to end in just a few weeks from now. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30425 DISCUSSION Note: The PowerBook Repair Extension Program will concluded on 2003-09-30. If you had it fixed elsewhere, I'm not sure how that will affect its coverage under the program as there were a few other components that were fixed/exchanged as well. For Free! Like the motherboard, screen, and one or two other items. For anybody else that has a 5300 or 190, it would be good for you to read this Apple Document and look inside the battery bay to see if there is a number stamp within. But even if there is (like mine had was through the REA once) apparently they (Apple) had tried to simply re-solder the power connector joints for some. This clearly didn't last, so I was able to make the argument that they didn't repair it properly and tried to take a shortcut. So they took it in again and that time replaced everything. But if you've had it re-soldered by a non-authorized Apple Tech, and there were no numbers stamped inside the battery bay, that may be a moot issue too and void the program or part of it? Of course, if it was by an Apple Authorized Tech, and they charged you, then you may have something more significant to gripe about because maybe 'the repair place' should have known about the REA Program. Hope this helps. Dave Rodriguez 87984 Heather Drive Springfield, Oregon 97478 D -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: PB 3400 OS
On Saturday, September 06, 2003, at 01:58PM, Dan Palka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/6/03 10:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen guys running X on a 3400, but it wasn't pretty. I'd like to try this, actually. How do I go about doing this? http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/ -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
How do I
I am trying to get itunes to run on 1400/166 and 8.6. I think I have seen a post telling how to do this. Does anyone know how to do it. Thanks Jim -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Duo Problem
Does anyone know what is wrong with a duo when it is powered up the screen has backlight but is blank? I have 3 230s and 1 280c that has this problem. Is it the PMU, ROM, RAM, CPU, or the whole thing? One 230 died because I had stripped the power adapter plug that goes into the back and plugged two of the three wires into a 24 volt lead-acid battery, which worked fine until I reversed the wires (why am I so dumb?), the screen flashed with the last image the screen showed and then went blank. Now whenever started up, shows the blank, white screen ghost (or, on the passive matrix, white shows up as a pink hue) Any ideas? I am hoping to build a duo with the screen reversed in tablet-pc fashion to put on the door of my locker at school :) -- Andrew a.k.a.- The MacFreak I fear that when Bill Gates dies he will find a way to create a monopoly in hell and steal the power of evil from the devil himself. -iJon from MacRumors.com -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Blank screen - PB 5300 just died!
I need a little feedback on something if you have any... Last night I was copying some files from a Zip 100 disk to my PowerBook 5300. Everything was going fine until I dragged a folder of files over, it started copying, and then it stopped midway through like it was copying a REALLY big file--the Zip amber light kept on making it look like it was busy too--and then I noticed everything else on the PB desktop went away (HD icon, etc.) and it appeared to have frozen. I forced a reboot from the keyboard and reset the Zip drive too. When I restarted the PB, there was just a big black diamond with a 2 in it bouncing around on the screen. I guess that's a symbol for SCSI port 2? I restarted off the Disk Tools floppy. There were no hard disk errors and everything came up normal. I went through the process again. It froze again on transferring a small folder of files from the Zip. I restarted again and the computer came up OK (no diamond this time). But the pattern repeated. I decided to call it a night after the last such cycle. And this morning I tried turning on the PowerBook and there is NO response from the computer. It's just DEAD. I hesitate to mention another fact because it makes NO sense to me whatsoever, but my desktop (a Mac clone) is dead today too! I had it on last night, but it was not connected to the PB. It shut down normally last night. Today when I press the power switch, the power supply turns on, but the hard disk isn't going through its paces. The screen never shows any signs of life. (I do hear the startup chime.) Zapping PRAM is not possible; it doesn't recognize the key sequence. Why would a desktop show these signs, whether or not in connection with a laptop? Does any of this sound at all familiar to anyone else? I think I'm going crazy. At least I have this PC laptop with which to post this message! :-) Thanks in advance for any advice. Allan -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
280 and 280c screen
can a 280c color screen plug into a 280 (not 280c) board? I would rather not take the risk of opening my 280 (I know this sounds wierd to some mac hardware guys). I noticed that on the 230 boards the plug is different, but I was wondering if this was the same for the 280. While im on this subject, is a 280 b/w screen compatible in a 230? Thanks, all! -- Andrew a.k.a.- The MacFreak I fear that when Bill Gates dies he will find a way to create a monopoly in hell and steal the power of evil from the devil himself. -iJon from MacRumors.com -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: 5300
Thank you everyone for your advice. I apologize for what I said about my 5300 being a dog, it's not. It was a gift from God and I do appreciate it, I was just frustrated. God Bless! Junior [EMAIL PROTECTED] John 3:16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Duo Problem
Does anyone know what is wrong with a duo when it is powered up the screen has backlight but is blank? I have 3 230s and 1 280c that has this problem. Is it the PMU, ROM, RAM, CPU, or the whole thing? One 230 died because I had stripped the power adapter plug that goes into the back and plugged two of the three wires into a 24 volt lead-acid battery, which worked fine until I reversed the wires (why am I so dumb?), the screen flashed with the last image the screen showed and then went blank. Now whenever started up, shows the blank, white screen ghost (or, on the passive matrix, white shows up as a pink hue) Any ideas? I am hoping to build a duo with the screen reversed in tablet-pc fashion to put on the door of my locker at school :) Check to see if the ribbon connector from the motherboard to screen has been burned out. Andrew a.k.a.- The MacFreak Mad Dog -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: 280 and 280c screen
can a 280c color screen plug into a 280 (not 280c) board? I would rather not take the risk of opening my 280 (I know this sounds wierd to some mac hardware guys). I noticed that on the 230 boards the plug is different, but I was wondering if this was the same for the 280. While im on this subject, is a 280 b/w screen compatible in a 230? Thanks, all! -- Andrew a.k.a.- The MacFreak Yes, the 280 and 280c motherboards are identical. In fact you can use a 270c screen on the 280/280c and you can use a 280 (BW) screen on a 270 motherboard. The 280 and 230 are not compatable. Mad Dog -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Blank screen - PB 5300 just died!
Allan, You probably need a pass-through terminator to use with the 5300. I know Zip drives provide termination, but their capabilities are dubious at best. Did you try disconnecting the Zip drive before rebooting? The PowerBook is probably hanging because of SCSI conflicts (either incorrectly connected devices or incorrectly terminated). Disconnect all the external devices and retest. If the 5300 acts normally, then SCSI conflicts are almost certainly the problem. As for a completely non-responding 5300, that could be a lot of things. Have you tried resetting the power manager by pushing in (and holding) the reset button on the back of the computer for about 30 seconds? Afterwards, sometimes it will start without you pushing the power button, other times you have to push the power key first... But usually this clears up strange power/booting problems. If that doesn't help, then keep it plugged in for 24 - 48 hours and try again. Your PRAM battery could have been depleted, and a depleted PRAM battery can cause a failure to boot You may also have a completely dead PRAM battery (in which case you need to either buy a new one or rebuild your current one). The clone desktop is another matter (and probably best answered on the corresponding list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Power Computing clones, etc). Have you checked to make sure the keyboard and/or monitor are plugged in correctly? A partially or completely disconnected keyboard or monitor can in some cases cause symptoms that match yours. If you have a PowerTower (Pro) or PowerCenter (Pro), you might be suffering from a dead cache DIMM. These things are notoriously prone to ESD and can just up and die on a bad day. A dead cache DIMM in these machines exhibits EXACTLY the symptoms you describe (grr, my dual 200/604e PTP had this problem a while ago). Simply removing the cache module solves this problem. Michael Macdonald of the Power Computing list made my personal list of Mac Heroes for solving this problem when no one else could... He doesn't seem to have contributed lately over there, though Peace, Drew -- Author of ClassicStumbler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.alksoft.com/ Visit the PowerBook 5300 FAQ! http://www.alksoft.com/5300_FAQ/ -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: PB 3400 OS
Good advice. I too have a 3400/240 with 144MB and a new faster 20GB HD, and 9.1 - with lots of extensions disabled - runs really well. I think the key is, as someone said, to disable or trash the extensions you won't be using. A standard 9.1 install puts more than a dozen totally useless (for a 3400) extensions on the system. I probably saved 4-5 MB of RAM just by turning them off. Even with the MS trio of memory hogs (Outlook 5.05, IE 5.1 and Word 98) installed, and virtual memory set to 145MB, the system uses 19-20MB, so it's a fairly lean, fast setup. And if you can go with alternatives to MS, like iCab, Eudora and, say, Nisus 4.1.6 (or Appleworks, or Word 5.1a), you'll never have any memory problems. I'm actually running Office 2001 on mine. It's a dog on any pre-G3, but I've even gotten it to run on a 5300. I wish I could find an earlier version of Word cheap to run on this thing, it's the only thing in Office '01 I ever use anyway. iCab for the browser...there is no substitute on a pre-G3 PowerBook. I have seen guys running X on a 3400, but it wasn't pretty. It's barely passable on a Kanga, and I wouldn't want to use it even on that. I've never even bothered trying it on the 3400. I do run the Aqua III theme in Kaleidoscope a lot, making it look like it's running 10.0.3 or something, but never the real thing. If someone does try it, remember that nothing above 10.1.5 will work. Jaguar doesn't install on a 603 or 604 system even with Ryan Rempel's hacks. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: 5300
I also bought a 28.8 megahertz pc modem and it works. But what a dog. Don't know if it's the 5300 or the pc modem. It takes forever to display web pages, I might as well go out watch the grass grow, may be faster. It connects at 28.8, but man what a slooow machine or modem. The 5300 is pretty slow on the Internet, you can help some with a 56K modem, but any grpahical browser is going to be poky. iCab, of course, is your best bet as far as a browser goes. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: PB 3400 with 24X CD drive??!!??
Sigh, unless one is willing to do some serious cable and EBM fabrication I think there is no chance of having other optical drives in a 3400/Kanga. I _really_ did get my hopes up though for a moment there. I wonder if it would be possible to somehow take the mechanism out of a CDRW designed for a WallStreet or Lombard and put it inside the casing of a 3400 CD-ROM module? Probably not, since I've never heard of it and VST would have probably made such a product if it were feasible. Can anyone prove me wrong on that one? Probably asking a bit much anyway. You can run a Zip drive and even make a USB card work in the 3400, burning CDs might be pushing it. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: vcd's and digital video
I don't have iTunes (I don't run 9) is there another program you might recomend that will run under 8.6? How about iTunes...for Mac OS 8.6? Yes, it's possible. I run iTunes 1.1 on my 8100/G3 with the help of a hack that you can download on this website: http://www.wormintheapple.gr/downloads/index.html Apparently, iTunes is completely compatible with 8.6, but Apple deliberately designed the program not to install on anything below OS 9. iTunes 2 doesn't work because Apple messed up so many things that hacking it would take forever. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
