Re: An even better powerbook......

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Re: Duo hacking questions

[Andrew Kershaw]

I never did find them. Thanks for the tip, I will poke around when I
get the chance. Last time I tried it, I randomly hit various pads
hoping to get lucky.
thanks,
Mad Dog

Mot has some PDFs (well, they did a few years ago before the
semiconductor group started to tank) online with the pinouts of the
603e.  You can use that to find the PLL pins and figure out the
resistor matrix if you haven't done it already.  Excuse me if I'm
telling you something you already know.  The one I'm thinking of is
entitled:
PowerPC
603e

RISC Microprocessor Family:
PID6-603e Hardware Specifications
Was it you who was going to try to upgrade the Chips & Logic video
controller to a T65225?  Or was that JT? The T65220 is also on the
5x0 and 280c, right?   That would be a pretty serious soldering job.
If you can do that, you might as well go right for the holy grail - a
faster 603e!
The 2300c has 512k of VRAM, right?  I can't seem to find it...
Man, there are a lot of similarities between this thing and the 5300.
It really makes you see how little NEW product development was going
on at Apple in the 90s.  Most of this stuff was evolutionary and
moving the components around on the logic board to make it smaller...
Peace,
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Re: Duo hacking questions

[Tom and Lisa P]

Mad Dog, this is mostly aimed at you.  Though anyone can answer!
Did you ever find the PLL resistors on the 2300 motherboard?  I'm 
not certain, but I suspect they aren't in a "bank" like we see on 
most other Macs.  It will take some investigating to confirm, but 
I'll bet they are on the underside to the left of the PBX (big TI 
chip under the 603e, I think that's the PBX).  There are a few empty 
resistor pads.  It might be that because space is so precious on the 
Duo mobo that the resistors are spread out.  Look at R79 through 
R109 - there's a semi-vertical column of resistors there...  A 
continuity tester will tell if they connect to the PLL pins on the 
603e.
I never did find them.  Thanks for the tip, I will poke around when I 
get the chance.  Last time  I tried it, I randomly hit various pads 
hoping to get lucky.

thanks,
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Duo hacking questions

[Andrew Kershaw]

Mad Dog, this is mostly aimed at you.  Though anyone can answer!
Did you ever find the PLL resistors on the 2300 motherboard?  I'm not 
certain, but I suspect they aren't in a "bank" like we see on most 
other Macs.  It will take some investigating to confirm, but I'll bet 
they are on the underside to the left of the PBX (big TI chip under 
the 603e, I think that's the PBX).  There are a few empty resistor 
pads.  It might be that because space is so precious on the Duo mobo 
that the resistors are spread out.  Look at R79 through R109 - 
there's a semi-vertical column of resistors there...  A continuity 
tester will tell if they connect to the PLL pins on the 603e.

I'm finally getting around to my stereo headphones hack.
It looks like pins 71 and 72 on the PDS are SND R & L (sound out 
right & left), respectively.  Pin 150 is /SPKR SEL.  Bringing that to 
ground will tell the PowerBook to turn off the built-in speaker, I 
think.

So.  I've got a 4-pin stereo mini-jack I lifted off my 190 
motherboard.  The two smaller pins closer to the opening of the jack 
are clearly the left & right audio pins, but I don't know which is 
which.  Does anyone know which segment of the 1/8" stereo mini-plug 
is right and which is left?

The two pins towards the end of the jack probably connect to ground 
(the tip) on the plug.  I imagine that when you plug in a mini-plug, 
those two pins are connected.  One of them should probably connect to 
pin 150 on the PDS.  The other should probably go to ground either on 
the PDS or elsewhere.  Can anyone confirm that this is the behavior 
of the jack Apple uses?  Or that if /SPKR SEL is brought to ground 
that it will disable the internal speaker?

I'm also going to post this to AppleFritter and the 68kmla, so I'm 
sorry in advance for the cross post.

Exciting times...
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Re: How much could I ask for a PB3400c?

[KG]

> Powerbook 3400c / 240 / 128Mb RAM
> The computer works very good and the screen is perfect, BUT...
> 1. I need to move a bit the powercord for it to work, I guess it has a
loose
> wire inside the cable, but with a little bit of moving around it always
> starts up.
This should be fairly easy to fix, if you are handy with a soldering iron.
Probably, the power connector is just working its way loose from the
mainboard. This happened constantly on 5300s.

> 2. The battery will not charge, I don't know if the battery's dead or it's
> something else.
Probably a failed power management card internally; these can be replaced.

> 3. It will not hold the correct date, maybe the PRAM battery needs
> replacing.
Yep.

> 4. The CD module works, but the opening mechanism doesn't, so I have to
use
> a paper clip to open the drawer.
Aggravating, but not a deal-breaker by itself.

> 5. The little doors in the back and side are missing.
Common problem with pre-G3 PowerBooks. No big deal.

All in all, in the condition it's in now, you probably wouldn't get more
than $125 for it. You'd probably do a lot better to break it down for parts,
actually.

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Re: SCSI DVD ROM or PB1400c

[Dan K]

PBs 1400 can use an expansion bay DVD-ROM drive using a 12x CD-ROM EBM 
shell and interface board. Laptop/slim DVD reader mechanisms are _very_ 
cheap. I tested a slim DVD-ROM reader I had laying about and it worked 
fine reading DVD-ROMs.

my page on 1400 optical EBMs:


While PBs 1400 can access data DVDs, they cannot play video DVDs (AFAIK), 
the video hardware just ain't near-enough powerful. Hmm, unless there's a 
SW decoder that will work with a G3 upgrade under classic Mac OS. Which 
I've never seen. But about which I'd gladly learn. :-)

Any PCI desktop Macs can use an ATAPI DVD drive through a PCI/ATA 
adapter. In theory (haven't done it myself, near as I can recall) such a 
video-DVD-capable display card as a Radeon Mac Edition or R7000 can do 
the trick under both OSes 9 and X. Might require a bit of hackage to get 
installed and running, I'm not exactly familiar with the details.

hth,

Dan K

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Re: How much could I ask for a PB3400c?

[Shaun Howell]

Gabriel Ponzanelli wrote:
Hi everybody,
I'm planning on selling my old Powerbook since I don't really use it anymore
(just for some light browsing and a few old games), but I'm wondering how
much could I get for it? I thought I'd ask you guys. The PB is NOT in mint
condition, so maybe it'll be for parts. A short description follows:
Powerbook 3400c / 240 / 128Mb RAM
The computer works very good and the screen is perfect, BUT...
1. I need to move a bit the powercord for it to work, I guess it has a loose
wire inside the cable, but with a little bit of moving around it always
starts up.
2. The battery will not charge, I don't know if the battery's dead or it's
something else.
3. It will not hold the correct date, maybe the PRAM battery needs
replacing.
4. The CD module works, but the opening mechanism doesn't, so I have to use
a paper clip to open the drawer.
5. The little doors in the back and side are missing.
I'm planning on putting it on ebay soon. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Gabriel

 

You should be able to easily get between $100.00~160.00 for it, based on 
my experiences.


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How much could I ask for a PB3400c?

[Gabriel Ponzanelli]

Hi everybody,

I'm planning on selling my old Powerbook since I don't really use it anymore
(just for some light browsing and a few old games), but I'm wondering how
much could I get for it? I thought I'd ask you guys. The PB is NOT in mint
condition, so maybe it'll be for parts. A short description follows:

Powerbook 3400c / 240 / 128Mb RAM
The computer works very good and the screen is perfect, BUT...
1. I need to move a bit the powercord for it to work, I guess it has a loose
wire inside the cable, but with a little bit of moving around it always
starts up.
2. The battery will not charge, I don't know if the battery's dead or it's
something else.
3. It will not hold the correct date, maybe the PRAM battery needs
replacing.
4. The CD module works, but the opening mechanism doesn't, so I have to use
a paper clip to open the drawer.
5. The little doors in the back and side are missing.

I'm planning on putting it on ebay soon. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Gabriel



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PB 1400/G3 - Problem #2

[John McGibney]

 
> Okay here's the second problem I'm having with my 1400:
> 
> When I tried to set up AOHell (v 5.0) it seemed unable to connect to the
> (external) modem. It gave me three successive error messages.  First:
> 
> "The requested serial port is in use by another application or extension
> ... etc. etc. ... Do you want to reset the port? YES NO"
> 
> Having seen this message plenty of times before on other macs I know that
> you just press YES, it resets the port and everything goes fine. Not this
> time. Second message:
> 
> "The only way we found to connect you is TCP/IP"
> 
> Of course you can cancel out of the auto-set-up and go back through
> "expert set-up" to select a modem (US Robotics 56k). However, when I did
> that and tried to connect, I got message #3:
> 
> "Connection warning: Unable to communicate with the modem. Please check
> that the modem is securely connected, turn it off and on, etc. etc. ..."
>
> So now I feel like I have exhausted every trick I know and I need some
> help with this. Maybe the modem port is just plain broken somehow? Or
> maybe some previous owner had this PB set-up with a TCP/IP connection and
> now it won't see the modem ... ??


Is AppleTalk active? Its default is the same printer/modem port and it
usually doesn't let go gracefully. Also check for active printers.

There used to be a small app called portwatcher(?) that checked to see if
the printer/modem ports were in use. Versiontracker may still have it
listed. You could try using that.

HTH
John


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Re: PB 1400/G3 - Problem #1

[Cameron Kaiser]

> I recently got hold of a 1400/133 with a Sonnet Crescendo 333 mhz G3 card 
> in it, running OS 8.5.  In general it seems to be running fine, but I am 
> having two problems.  This post covers Problem #1, namely, that altough 
> the G3 card seems to be working fine, I can't seem to put the Sonnet 
> Upgrade extension in the system folder - whenever I do, it causes the 
> powerbook to freeze during start-up just before the icon parade, i.e. 
> right when the Sonnet extension is trying to install.
[...]
> If someone can tell me how to get the extension to work right I'd be most 
> appreciative.

There have been reports of incompatibilities with Sonnet cards and 8.[56].
In order, to try,

1. download the most current Extension from Sonnet.
2. upgrade to 9.1. (My 333 works fine in my 1400, but I leapfrogged
directly from 8.1 to 9.1.)

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Re: Where to find dongles

[Steven Brown]

One of the companys thru daily dealmac or had the 14.4 or 28 and they 
were fairly cheap and came with a dongle. Do a PCMIA search on dealmac 
or the web, if they aren't that high, and you can use the card as a 
paperweight?

Steve Brown
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I got a Global Village Platinum Pro PC card in a 5300ce, but no 
dongles. Anyone have an idea where they might be found these days? 
It's a model A930, listed as 28.8 modem and 10BT ethernet.

Hamfests:
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Sunday at Manassas I saw not just dongles but also several "Duo" 
supplies.

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An even better powerbook......

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Re: Where to find dongles

[lesher]

I got a Global Village Platinum Pro PC card in a 5300ce, but no dongles. 
Anyone have an idea where they might be found these days? It's a model 
A930, listed as 28.8 modem and 10BT ethernet.

Hamfests:
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Where to find dongles

[Jeff Hubatka]

I got a Global Village Platinum Pro PC card in a 5300ce, but no 
dongles. Anyone have an idea where they might be found these days? It's 
a model A930, listed as 28.8 modem and 10BT ethernet.

thanks
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PB 1400/G3 - Problem #2

[Bruce . Hossfield]

Okay here's the second problem I'm having with my 1400:

When I tried to set up AOHell (v 5.0) it seemed unable to connect to the 
(external) modem. It gave me three successive error messages.  First:

"The requested serial port is in use by another application or extension 
... etc. etc. ... Do you want to reset the port? YES NO" 

Having seen this message plenty of times before on other macs I know that 
you just press YES, it resets the port and everything goes fine. Not this 
time. Second message:

"The only way we found to connect you is TCP/IP"

Of course you can cancel out of the auto-set-up and go back through 
"expert set-up" to select a modem (US Robotics 56k). However, when I did 
that and tried to connect, I got message #3:

"Connection warning: Unable to communicate with the modem. Please check 
that the modem is securely connected, turn it off and on, etc. etc. ..."

To make sure I wasn't having hardware or software problems other than the 
powerbook itself, I did the following: tried another modem (to check if my 
modem was crapped out); and copied my desktop AOL folder and AOL 
Preferences folder onto over to the powerbook. I've always found that once 
you have AOL installed, you can switch out those folders so as to copy all 
your modem settings, access numbers, favorites etc. onto your new 
computer. Well, I tried all that and nothing worked. Same messages.

Lastly, I also did a clean install of OS 8.5 (after trying all of the 
above things). After the clean install, I tried using the internet set-up 
assistant to find the modem, again with no success. Tried AOL set-up after 
the clean install - nothing.

So now I feel like I have exhausted every trick I know and I need some 
help with this. Maybe the modem port is just plain broken somehow? Or 
maybe some previous owner had this PB set-up with a TCP/IP connection and 
now it won't see the modem ... ??

Anyway, any ideas?

Bruce - in Orlando

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PB 1400/G3 - Problem #1

[Bruce . Hossfield]

I recently got hold of a 1400/133 with a Sonnet Crescendo 333 mhz G3 card 
in it, running OS 8.5.  In general it seems to be running fine, but I am 
having two problems.  This post covers Problem #1, namely, that altough 
the G3 card seems to be working fine, I can't seem to put the Sonnet 
Upgrade extension in the system folder - whenever I do, it causes the 
powerbook to freeze during start-up just before the icon parade, i.e. 
right when the Sonnet extension is trying to install.

What I've read about this is that without the Sonnet extension the card 
still functions but you don't get the L2 cache, which of course is a 
problem. I also read that you are supposed to install the extension first, 
then install the Crescendo card. If this has something to do with it it's 
kind of a problem since I only have the G3 cpu for this 'book, not the 
original 133 mhz cpu.

If someone can tell me how to get the extension to work right I'd be most 
appreciative.

Bruce - in Orlando
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