Re: Powerbook 1400 back up batteries.

[Garry Hamblin]

I would be most interested in any reply to this as I have exactly the 
same problem.  I had the PRAM battery replaced which did not fix it.
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 06:05 PM, Kenneth Vann wrote:

Hello all. I have a question for the expierence powerbook repair 
persons on
this list.

I have a Powerbook 1400 with the following problem: When in sleep mode,
with out ac adaptor pluged in, if I change the main battery, the 
blinking
led light will go dim. When a fresh main battery is reinstalled, the 
led
lignt returns to full brightness but the powerbook will not wake up 
from
sleep.

Please note: the computer does not lose date, time or mouse settings.

The owners manual said I should be able to change main batteries when 
in
sleep mode.

A service tech friend said that with 6 years of age on the backup 
battery,
I should change it to start with. Sounds relible to me.

I want to replace the backup battery. A dealer looked it up and said I 
need
one part number 922-2429 backup battery. Now as I get ready to 
install, I
find there are two batteries. One under the left palm rest, identified 
as
922-2429, one under the right palm rest, part number unknown.

The copy of the apple service pdf I have for the Powerbook 1400 shows 
the
battery under the left palm rest, but not the one under the right palm
rest. If you have a Powerbook 1400, you can see the batteries if you 
remove
the main battery and the floppy drive. They are attachet to the 
underside
of the upper case.

I found a tech note on apple web site that list two part numbers for
Powerbook 1400 batteries. Tech note #11751. System battery 922-2420, 
Backup
battery 922-2429.

In another tech note #16168, I find a battery listed by service part 
number
922-3078, also known as M4507 & M4915 I think that this is the main 
9.6v
Nimh battery.

So now I am totaly confused. I did a Goole search for 922-2420 and 
come up
with a reference for a 9v Nimh battery at a third party battery 
company.

Are the batteries under the palm rest both the same? Are they both 
922-2429?

Thanks for all you help.

Garry Hamblin
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Re: Pram Battery for 1400c

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Good resource to know about but my local Apple dealer quoted me $32.00 
CDN for a PRAM battery vs $54.95 U.S. [about $80.00 CDN] that is quoted 
on this site.
On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 05:49 PM, David Allen wrote:

> Just another case of Apple overprotecting itself. The PRAM module is 
> user
> replaceable by anyone who is careful. The Apple part number is: "Backup
> Battery, 922-2429". The replacements that I picked up for my 1400s 
> didn't have
> any numbers on them, but they matched those at:
> http://www.ebatts.com/product.asp?part=B-4251&Model=1239061&Manufacturer=
> 25&use=7.2%20Volt%20NiMH%20%20Battery
>
> David Allen
>
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Re: Hooking cable modem up to a 3400 or 1400

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I have my 1400 hooked up via e-net to a cable modem.  All ya need is an 
e-net pc card to plug into it.
>
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Re: powerbook 1400 ethernet

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Just to add my .02 worth.  I have a 1400c OS 9.1 and I use this driver 
and a Dell branded 3c589.  Works perfectly.
On Saturday, February 15, 2003, at 02:13 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

>>> But personally, I'd go for a 3Com EtherLink card, they are in 
>>> seemingly
>>> endless supply on eBay, can be found dirt cheap, and work with a 
>>> hacked
>>> Farallon driver.
>
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Re: Source for individual PB 1400 LCD components

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Try www.ibookparts.com they seem to have lots of lcd repair parts 
including the lcd itself.
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 10:09 PM, Sean McGroty wrote:

> The display on my 1400 isn't working properly. The screen displays
> either solid white or some other strange pattern. I think it's the
> small circuit board behind the screen. The screen works if I press on a
> specific location on the back. After I unscrewed the board and pivoted
> it away, I pressed on the back of the screen, which did nothing. Then,
> I pressed on the board, which caused the screen to display an image. Is
> there a source for individual display parts? The LCD itself is fine, I
> just need a new circuit. The display is a Sharp active matrix display.
>
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Re: 1400- battery rebuild

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I had mine rebuilt by a local outfit called "Battery Boys" here in 
Saskatoon.  Cost me $125.00 CDN I think.  The results were comparable to 
buying a new one which was over $200.00.   The 1400 battery is a Nicad I 
believe so I was told it was just a matter of replacing the battery 
cells.  The replacement of the batteries includes some specialized spot 
welding which precludes you taking a kitchen knife and prying open the 
battery enclosure  and doing it yourself.   Evidently the Li-on 
batteries which later PowerBooks use cannot be rebuilt.   According to 
them anyway.
On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 10:58 PM, aly wrote:

> Hi all! Questions on this topic -- where (online? mail it in? 
> resources?)
> can I get a 1400 battery rebuilt? What kind of performance/results after
> the rebuild? Does it cost significantly less than "new" battery? Not 
> heard
> of this before and am quite intrigued... Thanks very much...
>
> aly
> 1400cs
> KS, US
>
> Garry Hamblin wrote:
>
>> I had mine rebuilt six months ago.  Excellent results.
>>
>> On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 10:22 PM, Brian wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Can the 1400's battery be readily rebuilt or is it one with the goofy
>>> chips in it that would make it hard to rebuild it right?
>>>
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Re: 1400- battery rebuild

[Garry Hamblin]

I had mine rebuilt six months ago.  Excellent results.

On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 10:22 PM, Brian wrote:

>
>
> Can the 1400's battery be readily rebuilt or is it one with the goofy
> chips in it that would make it hard to rebuild it right?
>
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Re: Best OS for a 5300cs

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I run 9.1 on my 1400/166 64M ram, and it is seriously slow.  Like OS 8.1 
on an LC475 slow.  I appreciate the features though so I keep it as the 
OS on this machine.   I have tried 7.53 and 8.1 as well and the best 
compromise between performance and stability seemed to be OS 8.1.  Don't 
have a copy of 8.5/8.6 to test, but it would be interesting to do so.  
One of these days I will run across a deal on a Sonnet 466 and then all 
will be right with the world.


On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 07:09 PM, Dan K wrote:

> On 1/19/03 Victoria wrote:
>> on 1/18/03 3:10 PM, Andrew Kershaw at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> I run 8.6 on a 5300cs and a 5300ce, mostly because I can.  OS 9 was
>>> just too much of a pooch for my tastes.
>>
>> Drew -- how much RAM do you have on these 5300s?  I've only got 32MB 
>> on mine
>> (two attempts to max it out have ended in complete failure, though by 
>> some
>> miracle without costing any money), and have heard that 8.6 requires 48
>> minimum.  It's got 8.5 on there now, but the idea of upgrading has some
>> appeal, primarily because 8.6 runs my rock stable 7600, and its 
>> predictable
>> (not to say phlegmatic) habits are in marked contrast to those of the 
>> 5300,
>> which keeps dreaming up new flakinesses to entertain me with.  This is 
>> even
>> after (especially after) a recent clean system reinstall.  Is there a
>> reasonable chance that 8.6 would help it settle down, and if so could 
>> it get
>> by with so little memory?
>
> If you have OS 9.1 available, why not try that? Just today I was testing
> a 3400 with only the 16MBs onboard and 9.1 booted and ran fine with a
> full extension set, but a fast HD does help keep the VM from bogging 
> down
> the PB.
>
>
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Re: Maxing out PB 1400c

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The other thing to keep in mind about the 16 bit cards such as the Newer 
card is that your PB1400 will be unable to use 'stacked' ram modules.

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 01:24 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

>> What is the Max. RAM I can get and where?
>
> 64MB, although from personal experience this can be tricky to achieve. 
> I'm
> happy with 60MB.
>
>> Is there a perfered modem or ethernet card for this unit?
>
> One that works. The Farallons are nice.
>
>> External Video?
>
> I have an Apple 8-bit card which is only satisfactory, but the price was
> right. There are 16-bit cards but they are much more difficult to find.


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PB 1400 internal ethernet

[Garry Hamblin]

Does anyone out there know if the Apple internal ethernet card will fit 
a PB 1400 with 2 stacked ram modules?  I have an opportunity to buy one 
but won't make the purchase if I have to sacrifice ram.   Thanks.


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PowerBook 1400 Farallon Ethermac Installer problems

[Garry Hamblin]

Hi, hope someone out there can help me with this. I have the Farallon 
595 [not 595a] card with a PowerBook 1400 running OS 9.1 and can't get 
the installer to work. When running the installer, I keep getting the 
message 'Insert PC Card Installer 2.2 disk'. I am using a floppy disk 
labelled as such with the OS installer as downloaded from Farallon's 
site. I have tried running the installer from a CD, a floppy, and the 
hard drive. Same message. When I insert the floppy disk with the drivers 
on it, I get the message that the disk is labelled PC Card Installer 2.2 
but is not the correct disk, and then.. Please insert a disk 
labelled PC Card Installer 2.2.  What am I doing wrong? Or how can I 
install the pieces of the software manually?  Hope someone out there has 
run into this.

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