Re: Personal LaserWriter trouble

[Bryan Kattwinkel]

on 3/25/03 9:34 PM, Sid Barras wrote:

>I have yet to find and on/off switch, so I'm  assuming there is not one?
>is there a reset switch? I'm not afraid of opening it up and checking the
>output of the power supply. How do you get in it?
>
>Is there any safety switches or such that have to be closed for it to come
>on?
>I'm not getting the green light on the led bank on top...

There is no power switch. The most likely cause of no LEDs is the power 
cord working loose (inside the little door on one corner); if that's not 
it I have no idea.

I don't think there is any reset; you can pull the plug. After any jam or 
other yellow light condition, you typically have to open and close the 
toner cover and it resets itself. Jams tend to occur in the back; often I 
have to hold the pass-thru switch in the up position with a rubber band.

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Re: ethernet PCMCIA card won't work

[Bryan Kattwinkel]

on 3/12/03 10:09 PM, victoria brandon wrote:

>The card appears on the desktop, all its extensions are operative, but
>AppleTalk absolutely refuses to connect via Alternate Ethernet; every time I
>try to switch the connection there's an alert saying "An error occurred
>attempting to use Alternate Ethernet.  Make sure your network connections
>are correct."

Did you use an installer program for the GV card? Non-Apple ethernet 
drivers are typically not separate files or extensions but resources in 
the System file. In one case where I could not find the installer disk, I 
was able to copy a driver resource from one System file to another using 
ResEdit, but it's a hairy process (this was a desktop machine).

That message appears when there is no cable, nothing active on the other 
end of the cable, or no hardware card matching the selected ethernet 
driver. When all else fails, be sure to trash AppleTalk preferences and 
zap the PRAM.


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Re: Corrupted Downloads?

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on 2/17/03 12:05 PM, Hugo Diaz wrote:

>but during expansion, StuffIt warned about some damage.

You've got a bad version of StuffIt Expander. IIRC, there is a whole 
version of Expander that is broken on 68K macs, not just a random 
corruption. The symptom is files expand just fine on a PowerMac but wrong 
on 68K. When it happened to me I think I went a half step back (-.5) on 
the StuffIt Expander program and that fixed it. *$%#@ Aladdin!

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Re: pbk 5300 printer?

[Bryan Kattwinkel]

on 1/24/03 12:15 PM, kaldav wrote:

>I have acquired a powerbook 5300 and am wondering what models of color
>printer work with this serial connection.

Color StyleWriter 2200: My experience is they work great when plugged in, 
but none of the battery adapters I've seen would take a charge. The small 
black and color ink tanks can be replaced independently. You can use 
Apple's 2200 driver, or the slightly newer Color StyleWriter 2500 driver.

I've got a couple of Color StyleWriter 2200's in their original boxes, 
never been used. Contact me offlist is you want to buy one.

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Re: 190 cs

[Bryan Kattwinkel]

on 1/2/03 3:32 PM, vicki wrote:

>My 190 cs has just stopped! ...

When I didn't use mine for several months, it had strange symptoms, and I 
even went so far as to purchase a PRAM battery for it. Before I changed 
out the battery I discovered that the PRAM is rechargeable and just 
needed a fresh charge. Now I make sure to use and charge the 190cs every 
month, and no more problems (except for the flaky charger connector...)

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Re: Norton DiskLock

[Bryan Kattwinkel]

on 9/24/02 6:19 PM, Andrew Kershaw wrote:

>Well, imagine my surprise and consternation when I'm presented w/ a 
>log in screen for Norton DiskLock!
>
>I can't find any way to get around it.  Booting from floppy doesn't 
>work, booting from external SCSI drives doesn't work.  Even SCSI disk 
>mode doesn't work.  

I encountered a password-protected 190 about a year ago. The nice thing 
was, the password dialog had a Cancel button.

So I booted from a floppy, cancelled the password, and proceeded to a 
disk formatting utility. I *think* I used Apple's drive setup, but it 
might have been SilverLining. The utility allowed me to delete the 
partition, then create a new, blank partition with no password.

I'm pretty sure Norton was not involved in the one I worked on, so YMMV.

>I foolishly tried connecting 
>the disk _after_ the boot started from the floppy, and that lets me 
>boot to the desktop.  But i can't reformat the disk (Disk Setup won't 
>see it!).

This idea isn't so bad -- it actually works with SCSI drives and 
third-party formatters like SilverLining. I've done it by leaving the 
ribbon cable attached, starting the formatter, and then connecting power 
to the drive. But IDE is different, so the same approach may not work.

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Re: printing problems

[Bryan Kattwinkel]

on 9/18/02 2:10 PM, Tom W wrote:

>I just installed 8.1 on my 520C and hooked it up to a stylewriter II
>printer. When I try to print it says "serial port in use by another
>application". I tried switching appletalk over to ethernet because I thought
>that might be the problem, but it gives me an error when doing that.
>Any ideas?

You have to turn off AppleTalk (in the Chooser).

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Re: HTML editors

[Bryan Kattwinkel]

on 9/5/02 11:31 AM, Russell wrote:

>I do have an old copy of Claris 2.0 trial which will self destruct in 30
>days

Just throw out the "Claris Home Page Preferences" file and you get 
another 30 days. You can do this indefinitely.

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how to replace 190cs PRAM

[Bryan Kattwinkel]

I've obtained a replacement PRAM battery for my 190cs.
Can anyone point me to a guide for taking it apart, replacing the PRAM, 
and putting it back together?

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