Re: 3400c boots only with a powered external SCSI device
Hi George. not that i know of have you done a hard reset from the rear power button or a full os reinstall. or have you tried starting with a cd rom loaded in the cd draw internally instead of externally. i do have a spare 1.4gb hdd that i can send you and i can load a full copy of any os you want on it. to see if that solves the problem. if it does then you know what it is and can get a new one. I did have this problem with a 140 pb once but i replaced the hdd and it was fine. vicki -- From: George Mogiljansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PowerBooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3400c boots only with a powered external SCSI device Date: Sun, Apr 11, 2004, 12:14 AM Hi vicki, No, it's connected. It stalls and I can hear it going into (what I think) is sleep mode. The presence of the powered external SCSI device (either a CD-Rom or an HDD) solves everything. The 'book runs like new, i.e. boots normally from the internal drive. I took it apart again after getting the pdf from Apple Dev. notes. I can't see anything broken, yet. There's no reset button on the 180 MHZ mob, is there? George --- vicki duggan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi George have you stripped the book and reassembled it after the fall as if the hdd cable is just sitting on the connector and not connected properly it will interfere with the ide controller on the motherboard and the internal drive will not be powered . vicki -- From: George Mogiljansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PowerBooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3400c boots only with a powered external SCSI device Date: Sat, Apr 10, 2004, 2:30 AM Hi all, Happy Easter! My PB 3400c took a hard fall and now boots only with a powered external SCSI device. Is there a broken connection on the mother/logic board that can be fixed? Part of the problem/solution is that without the SCSI device, the internal HDD goes to sleep or stalls before the boot finishes. So whatever is putting the drive to sleep or stall is deactivated by the presence of the powered SCSI device. A non-powered device has no positive effect. TIA George __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- 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 -- 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
WiFi PC cards
I have a lucent wireless Pc card that works flawlesly either on the Wallstreet or the Kanga and the 5300. So I assume it is not 32 bit. I am confused but I would like to know why the USB PC card are problematic on the Kanga (the cardbus compliant thread) and the WiFi are not. I guess it is a matter of the 32 bits thing. Just in case, are the Belkin 802.11b-compliant cards compatible with the Macs? Ben -- 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: HP LaserJet 4ML printing (Was Re: )
On Saturday, April 10, 2004, at 02:01 PM, Bill Judson wrote: he top/front of the wrappers are the top. Now which way do I place it in the tray so that the top side will get printed on? The little hieroglyphs on the plastic tray don't seem to say. Thanx, I think she means, don't reuse your paper. When you print on the back side, with laser toner already present on the other side, it will melt off and cover the fuser with crud over time. If you can get it off, www.fixyourownprinter.com might have info, but I think you have to get a new fuser at that point. For sure, don't try and scrape it off :) Specialty papers often have a top and bottom side since the top has clay or other substances present to make it very smooth. But for regular laser paper stock that's not an issue. 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: HP LaserJet 4ML printing (Was Re: )
Specialty papers often have a top and bottom side since the top has clay or other substances present to make it very smooth. But for regular laser paper stock that's not an issue. Actually, this isn't true either, especially for older assemblies. Laser paper is supposed to have an imperceptible curl to compensate for the curl introduced by the fuser. When loaded correctly, the paper with its baseline curl goes through the fuser, gets curled the other way, and comes out with the two curls cancelling (i.e., straight). When loaded wrong, you get a double curl and a jam. This happened incessantly with my otherwise excellent LW 16/600 and I was about ready to go buy new rollers and try to repair it (at moderate expense) when someone recommended I just turn the paper over. Suddenly, it started working perfectly! While this may make no difference with modern assemblies (dunno), it *does* make a difference with older printers, believe me. As a result, I only buy sided laser printer stock, and load it into the printer as it directs, and the LaserWriter just purrs now. -- -- personal: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Floodgap Systems Ltd * So. Calif., USA * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- if (you.canRead(this)) you.canGet(new job(!problem)); -- Seen at JavaOne --- -- 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: PB3400c ADB chip ?
Hi Clark, I don't see such a fuse set-up in my 3400, if you're talking about the casing. My problem is that the 3400 will only boot normally if an external SCSI device is attached and powered up. Otherwise, the internal HDD stalls during the start-up (after the smiley face and during the bar graph phase). This problem started after the 3400 hit a concrete floor. If there is a SW solution (and I don't think there is), will it require the original install SW, i.e. OS 7.6 specific to the 3400/180? George Well I don't know for certain there are but they are fairly common on Macs for protecting the ADB, SCSI and anything else that puts power out on an external connector (and probably other things too). They usually look like two pieces of metal with a separator between them. The metal pieces are parallel to the motherboard. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- 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: HP LaserJet 4ML printing (Was Re: )
Specialty papers often have a top and bottom side since the top has clay or other substances present to make it very smooth. But for regular laser paper stock that's not an issue. Those calendared papers are intended for ink jets. Lasers were made for use with standard, non-calendared papers. -- 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: PB3400c ADB chip ?
In a message dated 4/11/2004 12:02:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My problem is that the 3400 will only boot normally if an external SCSI device is attached and powered up. Otherwise, the internal HDD stalls during the start-up (after the smiley face and during the bar graph phase). This problem started after the 3400 hit a concrete floor. Aha! Did not know about the Concrete Floor factor.. Now I suspect even more that the culprit is the HD inside the laptop; either it was damaged or the connector to it (or FROM it to the mobo) was slightly disturbed... Craig W. Atlanta, GA Power corrupts. Absolute power's a blast. - John Fund -- 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
Is there a OS speed comparison chart?
Greetings All! I'd like to know whether there's some chart that shows the speeds of various MacOSes on various machines. I'd like to know whether, say, 8.1 is any faster or slower or stabler than 7.6.1 on my PB 190, etc. Oh, this is a toughie and I doubt it exists, but is there some interactive OS/CPU power comparative chart somewhere that can tell me what percentage of power that, say, an iMac has compared with a ENIAC or a Cray and visa versa, etc? It'd be a fun computer power comparison chart if it's accurate, because you can ask things like how many Palm Pilots would've it took to substitute for all the computers that supported Apollo astronauts to the moon and so on! Thanks all! JimWG -- 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
Desktop Pictures
Will someone with OS 8.0 or 8.1 please send me the Desktop Pictures control panel file. My PB5300ce came with os 8.0 I update to 8.1, it doesn't have the desktop pictures control panel, and I don't have an os 8 cd, nor do I have the SCSI cable to hook up the cdrom drive. I want to be able to put images rather than just the boring patterns on my desktop. Thanks, Mike -- 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: HP LaserJet 4ML printing (Was Re: )
On Sunday, April 11, 2004, at 11:18 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: Actually, this isn't true either, especially for older assemblies. Laser paper is supposed to have an imperceptible curl to compensate for the curl introduced by the fuser. Wh Some types of fancy inkjet paper still has additives on one side... this is where people get the top/bottom thing from in part, I think. 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: HP LaserJet 4ML printing (Was Re: )
No, you misunderstood. It doesn't matter what side of the paper you print on. what matters is if you print on one side and then regularly use the back side to print other things, so as not to waste paper. I had my machine for 12 years. I was regularly saving used pages and printing on the backside. when you do that, over time, the laser toner adheres to some roller deep (and expensively) inside (expensive part, expensive repair). the the roller gets gunked up. then it starts not wanting to feed paper through any more and paper jams halfway through. there was no repairing the printer. Actually I could have bought the $250 part and had it put in, but considering the printer was 12 years old and I could get a faster, cheaper one for much less $, it was not worth it. Pennywise and pound foolish. the paper I saved cost me the life of my printer. On Sunday, April 11, 2004, at 03:32 PM, PowerBooks wrote: Bill Judson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HP LaserJet 4ML printing (Was Re: ) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have an HP 1012 which I bought a few months back to replace the HP4ML that I had had for 12 years (it required a repair that would have cost $250). Warning: I had been using the back side of sheets to print and eventually got toner fused to some roller--the moral of that story is It does not pay to do that because it ruins your printer. I like this new HP 1012 printer very much. It's very quiet and very fast in comparison to my old one. It cost me $149 on sale at Office Depot. However, I think the 2300 might be networkable, which this one is not, if you need networkable. Hmm...that's news to me about the 4ML. I've been using mine for about 2 years since I got it at a yard sale. I never heard about that, but I didn't get a manual with it. I am using mostly Office Multi Purpose paper -- they don't have an arrow or anything on the packs that tell you which side is the top, like some papers do, so I'm assuming that the side under the top/front of the wrappers are the top. Now which way do I place it in the tray so that the top side will get printed on? The little hieroglyphs on the plastic tray don't seem to say. Thanx, -- 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
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Exactly. The fuser(I think it's a roller) was coated. You cannot get the crud off once it fused to it. You have to replace the fuser roller and that's the $250 part. so...it doesn't really pay to print on the back of paper you have already used, unless your printer is really designed to do that. My new printer, HP1012 says you can print on the back by turning the paper over, but I'm not sure I would do that regularly based on my past experience. However, it is conceivable that the fuser and paper path relationship is different (it's 12 years newer in design). I have no way of knowing.Duplex printers are designed to print double-sided, so I expect they are designed to avoid the fuser problem. But they are quite expensive. If I needed to do a lot of 2-sided printing regularly, I would look for a duplex laser printer and shell out the big bucks. D On Sunday, April 11, 2004, at 03:32 PM, PowerBooks wrote: I think she means, don't reuse your paper. When you print on the back side, with laser toner already present on the other side, it will melt off and cover the fuser with crud over time. If you can get it off, www.fixyourownprinter.com might have info, but I think you have to get a new fuser at that point. For sure, don't try and scrape it off :) Specialty papers often have a top and bottom side since the top has clay or other substances present to make it very smooth. But for regular laser paper stock that's not an issue. -- 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
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Exactly. The fuser(I think it's a roller) was coated. You cannot get the crud off once it fused to it. You have to replace the fuser roller and that's the $250 part ... The fuser is comprised of a heated roller, which is Teflon coated and has a quartz-halogen heating lamp within it, and a pressure roller, which is silicone rubber coated. The fuser itself is a FRU (field repleaceable unit) and usually costs about $49, exchange. The silicone-coated roller seldom gives any problems, but it is the most expensive of he two. The Teflon-coated roller is usually the culprip, and it is the one which is most often replaced. About $9, from The Printer Works. I used to rebuild all my fusers, but this is usually false economy, of one's time is considered. The crud can be removed, but it's a PITA, using so-called synthetic steel wool, extra-fine, a 3M product. Better yet to obtain a new roller for about $9. The LJ4/LJ4M/LJ4+/LJ4M+/Pro 600/Pro 630/16-600 fuser is the same part, and it pops out after removing only two screws. The fuser roller is the same part across all those machines, too. -- 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: HP LaserJet 4ML printing (Was Re: )
At 05:48 PM 4/11/2004, you wrote: No, you misunderstood. It doesn't matter what side of the paper you print on. what matters is if you print on one side and then regularly use the back side to print other things, so as not to waste paper. I had my machine for 12 years. I was regularly saving used pages and printing on the backside. when you do that, over time, the laser toner adheres to some roller deep (and expensively) inside (expensive part, expensive repair). Note this can't be a universal truth; if so there'd be no duplex printers. -- 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
