Re: PB 1400 Question
On 8/6/03 7:15 PM, David Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How much RAM do you have? 8.6 needs much more than 8.1. ( 32 or 48 vs 16? Anyone remember exactly how much 8.6 likes vs what the docs say it requires?) I have 64 Meg, and I don't use Virtual Memory... I thought about upgrading to 9.1 (I have it on CD), but seeing what it did performance-wise to a 7200/120, I am reluctant. I'll deal with it for a little longer, I used to have 8.6 on this machine, and don't remember the pauses being this annoying, so maybe it will go away after a little while (I know, wishful thinking :-) -- John -- 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 5300cs network troubles
Also, does anyone know where i can get a cheap G3 laptop? or a PB that i can upgrade to G3? From what I know, the only officially G3 up-gradable laptop was the 1400. The 3400 can be made G3 by way of logic board replacement, but it seems a little pointless to me. Ebay would probably be your best bet for both -- John -- 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 1400 Question
Thankyou all for the recent replies, I'm running Techtool Pro now, optimising the disk. With any luck, that will work :) I thought it may be the networking problem at first, but this happened from the moment I installed a clean version of 8.6, so I didn't think that could be it... Once the disk is finished, I'll check the folders anyway. Regards, -- John -- 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 1400 Question
Haha, yeah, I was :). I've since realised that buying the cheap card and then the driver for it would be the same as just getting a card that works from the start. So, obviously, I did that. Avaya Wireless Gold card (Basically a re-badged Orinoco card) Works, but I had to upgrade to 8.6 to install it. I don't think the 1400 likes that very much, I regularly get a 'pause' effect - Nothing works (except mouse movement) for maybe 30 seconds, then a flurry of disk activity and off we go again. Doesn't seem to be a pattern to it, other than it happened last time I ran 8.6 on it as well. I'll see if I can download some older drivers for the card, then backdate the OS to 8.1, which worked much better. A pity really, I like the colours of 8.6 better... -- John On 7/6/03 9:25 AM, Christopher Kolp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/4/03 1:57 AM, John Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Dead simple question: What is the version of the PC card manager in a Powerbook 1400c/133? (I¹m running OS 8.1 if it makes a difference) Thanks, -- John I believe the PC Card Manager is version 2. Version 3 is in the 2400/3400. I assume you're asking in regards to the IOExperts Wireless drivers? 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 -- 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
Avaya/Agere/Lucent/Orinoco
Hello, Has anyone out there got one of the Lucent series of cards to work with OS 8.1? My book doesn¹t like 8.6, so I¹d love to know it¹s possible to get them to run under 8.1. I'm using the Avaya Gold card... -- John -- 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: Oh I forgot
Hello Josh, Is it an Apple-Branded CD Drive? If not, then chances are it isn't recognised by the System Software. Go to www.resexcellence.com and look around for a page explaining how to modify Apple's Driver to work with all kinds of CD-ROMS. I can't find it right now (crappy internet connection) but I can vouch for it's usefulness, I had a Sony SCSI drive running no worries in next to no time. This is my best guess for what your problem is, but just incase it isn't... Are you terminating the SCSI chain? Sometimes the device will do that by itself, but not always... Do you know if the drive is good? If not, try hooking it up to the 'book by itself - leave HD's off for a sec. MAYBE you need to enable mounting PC SCSI disks in File Exchange? Don't know why that would be necessary, but hey, I'm just throwing ideas out there for now. Maybe try a different CD, I usually test a drive using a commercial audio CD, that way there won't be any problems with unsupported formats... Do the HD's work and mount? If not, then there is obviously a problem with your cable. You didn't mention them not working, so I doubt that would be the problem Oh, and welcome to our list :-) -- John On 7/6/03 3:17 PM, Joshua K Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I supposed i should send this also, i have mac os 8.6, with 56 mb ram, 700 mb hdd, 2 4 gig scsi hdds, and a scsi cd im trying to get to work.. -- 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: SCSI CD drive
Try This: http://www.resexcellence.com/hack_html_99/12-21-98.shtml -- John On 7/6/03 3:13 PM, Joshua K Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a PB 5300CS, and i am trying to use a CD drive on my pb.. I had some extra scsi equip, so i made an array, 2 four gig hard drives, and a scsi cd. It recognises Macintosh HD ATA 0 0 0, SCSI HD 1 SCSI 0 1 0, SCSI HD 2 SCSI 0 2 0, and CD-ROM drive SCSI 0 3 0. Why cant i see my CD icon when insert my CD into my drive? TIA. Josh. -- 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 2300c RAM
On 4/6/03 8:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a 280c, and have no intention of upgrading to the 2300c, BUT I would like to upgrade to the 2300c SCREEN and maybe the RAM.. Can I be so bold as to ask why you don't want to use the 2300? I looked up some specs, and dimensions/weight wise it is identical to your 280... Perhaps instead of putting the 2300 ram and screen on the 280, maybe the 280 HD in the 2300?? Or just pick up a cheap 'lil HD from a computer fair or something? -- John -- 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 2300c RAM
Up to you of course, but may I suggest you give the 2300 a try... 68k code has never had any problems running on a PPC in my experience, and anything coded 'FAT' (ie, both PPC and 68k) will be remarkably improved in speed I'd say... (probably even the 68k stuff will be better on a 100Mhz machine compared to 40Mhz) Don't know about the RAM thing though, sounds a little strange to me... -- John On 4/6/03 12:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 6/3/03 10:19:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I be so bold as to ask why you don't want to use the 2300? I looked up some specs, and dimensions/weight wise it is identical to your 280... Perhaps instead of putting the 2300 ram and screen on the 280, maybe the 280 HD in the 2300?? Well, simply put, I have been using the Duo 280c since 1995, in connection with my profession (paralegal to lawyer to sports agent). I have so many things on there that are 68k specific, I don't wanna go thru the hassle ... Plus I have heard that 40mb of RAM in 68k is more than 56mb RAM in PPC... Craig W. -- 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
PB 1400 Question
Hello all, Dead simple question: What is the version of the PC card manager in a Powerbook 1400c/133? (I¹m running OS 8.1 if it makes a difference) Thanks, -- John -- 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
Wireless Networking Question
Hello all, The recent discussion about getting a 3400 wireless has given me the idea of doing it myself... But I have a few questions to ask of you first: I have a 1400c, currently running 8.1 with 64MB ram. From all reports, this should be enough to run a wireless PC card. I have an LCD iMac, which is of course made for airport. Now, I remember reading (way back, when airport was still in diapers) that it was possible to set up a desktop machine as a base station. Now, the iMac is hooked up into the rest of the network using standard cat-5 cables and a switch. Can I turn it into a base station? Or has apple stopped support for that, seeing as it would eliminate the need for a hardware base-station? If it IS possible, does anyone know what the reception is like? -- John -- 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: Can you use a PowerBook 1400 while lid is closed? (usingvideo-out)
I always thought the 1400 WAS the budget book of it's time, compared to the 3400... The 1400 has a magnetic switch to prevent you from working with the screen closed, and I doubt that it is possible to get around it. Well, unless you do some kind of hardware surgery to the inner workings. My guess it is a heat issue - the heat sink cools via the grid just below the display (above the keyboard), and with the screen closed, the heat has nowhere to go. (new PowerBooks have a heat outlet at the back of the machine don't they?) -- John On 3/6/03 5:34 PM, Christopher Kolp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello PowerBook users everywhere! Before I purchase an internal video-out card for it, does anyone know if you can operate the PowerBook 1400 with the lid closed if you use an external keyboard, mouse and monitor? The new Powerbooks can do this but iBooks can't, which I assume is not because it can't but because they want you to spend more for additional features. However, the PowerBook 1400 wasn't a budget notebook at the time and the video out card supports video mirroring, which seems ideally suited for this application... If anyone of you PowerBook 1400 guru's can shed some light on this It'd be much appreciated, Thanks in advance, Chris 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
Re: Powerbook battery problem
Hi Nina, It is possible that you got a brand new battery, however, it was brand new in 1996 (or whenever it was). After sitting on a shelf for that long, it is quite possible that the chemicals inside are simply worn out. If you take both batteries to a shop capable of rebuilding battery packs, and get them rebuilt, they will be 2003-new, and should last a lot longer. -- John -- 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: 3400c Speed Question
I'm not sure why you need to know what the speed is, perhaps for price haggling purposes or something, in which case, I would suggest you assume it is the 180Mhz variant. That way, you can either be right, or you have a machine that is 20 or even 60 Mhz faster than you first thought. :-) My 2c. -- John. -- 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: Go away processor cycling!
Hi Dan, Go into Energy Saver control panel. It should be in the advanced settings tab/button. At least, it is in OS 8.6 :) -- John On 1/4/03 2:21 PM, Dan Palka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well now I got AfterDark working properly. But now, when the screen savers appear, a few seconds into them they suddenly slow down to a crawl, then speed up again if I move the mouse. This reminds me of what used to happen on my Duo when I was playing Prince of Persia. I had to keep moving the mouse every couple of seconds to get the game to stay fast, otherwise it would slow down (since I controlled the game with the keyboard). I installed Prince of Persia on my 190cs and sure enough, the same thing was happening. I remember to solve this problem on the Duo, I disabled something called Processor Cycling. But I can't find that setting anywhere on the PowerBook 190cs that I'm now using daily. I want it to go away! Help! Where is it? Where can I get a control panel that disables it if I don't have one? -- 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: 3400c Speed Question
This is going to sound either very smart or very stupid: Doesn't it tell you after the name on the case? For example, 3400c/240 means it is a 240MHz Machine... I'm just guessing here, that¹s what the 1400 series is like, so I only assume the same for the 3400's. If not, (ie, it just says 3400c or there is no case sticker thingo) then I'd say you will have to boot the beast up :-) One note: If there isn't Ethernet on the back of it, then it will be one of the few 180Mhz machines sold without Ethernet (the other models had it standard) -- John On 31/3/03 11:52 AM, Tyler Krehbiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to tell the speed of a 3400c from the outside? (Without booting up) Thanks ~Tyler -- 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: Problems with track pad on 2400
Is the track pad button ok? Maybe it is in a constant state of on?? What do you mean by the hard drive whirs? It's spinning loudly? -- John On 31/3/03 3:33 PM, David Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear troubleshooters, when i move cursor on the desktop it makes drag type geometric shapes. I have disabled trackpad, restarted, and not only does the trackpad still work, it continues to do the very same thing. Also when I double click on hard drive icon, i hear hard drive whirring. Oh, boy! All I'm trying to do is word process, 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: CD Drive problem
Try looking here: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/gionpeters//pb1400.htm This site is obviously a 1400, but it sounds like a very similar problem to what you are having. Scroll down to almost the very bottom of the page, (past all the over clocking stuff...) where he describes changing the focus of the lens, after which the drive started working again. Don't know if it'll work for you of course, but it's worth a shot :-) -- John On 28/3/03 4:02 AM, Scoppie, Dr R.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd be grateful for any advice on the following problem: Powerbook 3400 on OS 8.6 The CD drive module has stopped operating - was working fine up to about 10 days ago. Floppy module is operating fine. Now, when a CD is loaded it's not appearing on the desktop or accessible in any way. Running the system profiler registers the CD Drive when it's installed but attributes in an ID No. 0 i.e. the same as the hard drive, rather than 3 which is the normally SCSI No. for a CD Drive. And when there's a CD in the drive, the profile report is saying No media or some such phrase. My guess is that the SCSI conflict between the hard drive and the CD drive is causing the system to ignore the latter. I can't see any obvious switches on the CD Drive module to change it back to 3. I have reinstalled the system to no effect. I fear it's a hardware problem rather than software. Anyone come across this before? Any suggestions gratefully received. Roger Scoppie -- 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: At Ease
From the Apple Knowledge base: - To reset password, follow these steps: 1. Place the Utilities disk in the floppy disk drive, and turn the computer on. This starts the computer with the system on the Utilities disk, instead of the hard drive's system folder. This allows you to bypass At Ease and the password. 2. Open the hard-drive window. 3. Open the System folder. 4. Open the Control Panels folder. 5. Double-click the At Ease Setup icon. 6. In Change Password, enter a new password, or press the Delete key to remove any type of password protection. 7. Close the At Ease Setup control panel and restart your computer. - After doing that, I assume you can access whatever you want to on your computer... Hope this helps, -- John On 22/3/03 11:52 AM, Fredrik Rundgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is kind of off topic perhaps... My newest Mac finding is a LC whith Mac OS S1-7.0.1 and is running At Ease at startup. Now Finder and open comands are password protected.. Is there any way to get past that pw protection without reinstalling OS? Please advise! Remember, I'm a total Mac newbie Thanks in advance! -- 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: Low Level Formatting and PowerBook IDE/ATA hard drives
On 20/3/03 6:14 AM, Brian McEwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to contribute to the Thread that Won't Die. That's ok. I've decided to just give up on this thread, it just isn't interesting me anymore. When people tell me what I'm doing and have been doing with no problems at all for years was a fluke, I tend to just give up :-) Lets just move on shall we? -- John. -- 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: Low Level Formatting and PowerBook IDE/ATA hard drives
Well, close to no time. It will still re-initialize the disk. And if you've selected a different partitioning scheme or changed from HFS to HFS+ (or HFS+ to HFS), it will take a few seconds. But it won't take anything like the several minutes to hours it can take to write zeros to a several gigabyte disk and/or do an LLF to a SCSI disk. Peace, Drew So why is that not true then? When LLFing an ATA (or any other) drive, it can take anywhere from 20min to an hour or more. If it is doing nothing at all, then why does it take so long? It seems stupid if it is writing zero's, because it does that in the next step, when it says Writing Zero's I just don't understand why, if it is bad/pointless/impossible to LLF an ATA drive, it is possible to select it, and (aside from this list) not generally known to damage the drive. If apple knows all this, why is drive setup (capable of LLF) still included with new Macs, even though they all use ATA drives? If a customer puts a SCSI disk in a new Mac, then it is via a 3rd party driver, which presumably can format it's own disk anyway. Like you, Drew, I don't particularly want to drag this argument out any further, but it all sounds very old-wives-tale-ish to me... :-) -- John -- 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: Low Level Formatting and PowerBook IDE/ATA hard drives
Has anyone tried to low level format flash storage media like a compact flash card or smart media? I wonder what that would do... If I'm incorrect, obscure, or too vague anywhere above, I would appreciate clarification!!! Peace, Drew Hello, I've low-level formatted many IDE/ATA drives, most in desktops, but also in my 1.3GB 1400. Never had any problems with it, in fact, in all cases the machine ran a whole lot smoother after having it done. I can understand what you say about ATA drives being 'dumb', but if that is the case, surely drive setup would do the thinking for it? write this here, and that there etc etc...? As for the flash card, yep, I did that too. I low-level formatted a Sony memory stick. The stick came out just fine, but I can't re-format it to PC, which it needs to run in the camera. Doesn't matter, I have a bigger stick in the camera anyway, but I warn anyone planning on trying this, your card won't work afterwards in anything but your computer (I've heard similar stories with other types of flash cards) -- John -- 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: Low Level Formatting and PowerBook IDE/ATA hard drives
On 18/3/03 10:57 AM, Andrew Kershaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've low-level formatted many IDE/ATA drives, most in desktops, but also in my 1.3GB 1400. Well, color me crazy. --snip-- Open Drive Setup. Click on the drive you want to initialize. Select the Functions - Initialization Options... menu. Low level format is definitely not available as an option. It is greyed out and not selectable. I assure you, It is NOT greyed out on this machine (PB 1400), nor on my 5500/225's and no, not even on my LCD iMac (after booting in 9.2). And yes, I have low level formatted all of them. I had a look when the machine was booted from the hard drive, and THEN it's greyed out, but I doubt you could actually go through with formatting the start-up disk anyway... In all cases, the type listed in drive set-up is ATA. I'm suspicious that you were able to do this in any desktop mac. Unless you've got one of those Turbo66 or other Sonnet IDE cards (which only allow this through the fact that they are 3rd party controllers and not known to Drive Setup - also some of them identify IDE disks as on a SCSI bus). But I'm pretty sure I've heard horror stories on the PowerComputing list about people who LLF'd IDE drives connected to these cards... Nope, these are the stock hard drives plugged into the stock controller. I've tried to take a screenshot, but that doesn't seem to work when booted from a CD. So, to those who say that they have successfully LLF'd an IDE drive, I declare shenanigans! :-) Declare what you want, I know my Macs, and I sure as heck know when I LLF a drive or not. In fact, I have not come across a drive that WON'T LLF, when booted from a disk other than the HD. I know it is not just a fluke, as I LLF'ed a room full of Power Mac 5500/225, and then the next room of iMac 233's at my old school. All had some major problems before hand, but ran like a dream afterwards (something not to be sneezed at in a high-school :-) For the disbelievers: http://freepctech.com/pc/001/007.shtml http://www.appletechs.com/archives/0055.html http://modecideas.com/faq45.htm?faqsubpar I honestly have not ONCE had a problem doing this. I don't know what these people are doing to their drives... Peace, Drew Well, I agree with you on the peace part anyway :-) -- John -- 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: Low Level Formatting and PowerBook IDE/ATA hard drives
Well, all I can say is that Apple has got it wrong. I can, and have, low-level formatted my hard drive. Select the drive, initialisation options shows LLF as a viable option (assuming selected disk is not start-up disk). Then, clicking on initialise, there is a summary screen of what drive setup is going to do, like partition options, and what type of formatting. Here, again, LLF is shown. Then, when 'initialise' is selected, the program shows Performing Low-Level-Format for a while (time shown varies, depending on size of Hard Drive), then it goes on to zero-all data (if it's selected) and finally finishes off, naming the disk etc etc. If you don't believe me that Drive Setup greys out the LLF option when an IDE drive is selected, then believe Apple: Sorry, but I'll believe my own eyes, and they are quite certain of what they are looking at. :-). I'm quite certain you can see very well too of course, and that they ARE greyed out on your machines, but on the 60-or-so machines that I have formatted in this way, it worked. And worked well. You can think I'm some crack-pot that must have 3rd party drivers without knowing it, or one who uses cracked versions of Drive setup or something if you want to, but it is simply not true. When you tried it, what did you start-up from? I used an old OS 8.5 CD on the powerbook. -- John -- 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: Low Level Formatting and PowerBook IDE/ATA hard drives
Just so you KNOW I'm not a complete idiot, and perhaps you can see what we are doing differently... http://www.insysco.net.au/cwbb/MOV01423.MPG This is a movie (quite crappy quality, sorry about that...) of me selecting LLF after booting up in OS 8.5 -- John -- 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: Farallon ethermac card won't connect
I have never heard of a 'male' PCMCIA card, nor for that matter a female pc card slot. Do both slots do the same thing? Perhaps the spring in the one you are inserting into is stuffed?? Also, with the card out, press the eject button - the spring might still be in the 'engaged' mode. Note, pressing the button will only have an effect when the computer is either on or off - not when it's sleeping. You can also try using a paperclip in the small hole beside the card slot to try to disengage the spring, if that is indeed the problem. -- John On 17/3/03 3:15 PM, Frank Modica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I picked up a Farallon ethermac PC card on ebay to create an ethernet network for a pb 1400 through the PCMCIA slot. The 1400 iss a 166 mhz model with 56 mb of RAM. I installed the software from the diskette, but when I stuck the card into the slot it didn't bite; springing back and forth in the slot. The card itself is a PCMCIA 2.1 and PC Card standard. When I looked at the end of the card and the inside of the PCMCIA slot, they both appeared to be female connectors. Did I get the wrong kind of card? I'd really like to get this computer on an ethernet network. -- 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: battery charging question
Hello, I'm a little confused with your problem... I have 'white bars' appear in the control strip when the battery is less than completely full, and when I first plug a battery in, it is completely white, then quickly turns to grey, once it realises the battery is charged (I think the OS assumes a dead battery is inserted)(BTW, 1400c/133, OS 8.6) Have you tried 're-conditioning' the battery? Is it a NEW battery, or an original battery? I've heard of original batteries still being sold... A battery that has been sitting on a shelf for 5-6 years isn't too great apparently :-) Your 'book should do really well once you have the new battery working, I use mine for university work, and with the hard drive set to spin down, the screen dim, processor cycling, no VM and all kinds of other low-power tricks, I get about 3 1/2 hours from the original battery... Good luck with it, -- John On 14/3/03 3:49 PM, A. Dishinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Dana et. al., Yes, fortunately, I just received it and the battery has a year warranty, so if this turns out to be a big waste of my time I can return it. Whew! I am being patient with the process... Every time I put the new battery back in to charge I am getting more white bars at first... and then they rapidly diminish -- in about 5 seconds. Having old Macs is such an adventure. I love mine to pieces; I just hope now that I've made the commitment to a new battery that this works out well. =-) ~Aly Dana Collins wrote: eBatts touts a one- year guarantee - is yours covered at this time? -- 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: Ethernet PCMCIA card won't work
Hello Victoria, I have had similar problems with an Ositech Jack of Diamonds TrumpCard (10 base-t and 28K modem combo). I don't get any errors, but the Ethernet port simply doesn't 'see' anything. Ie, in the chooser, clicking on AppleTalk reveals no servers. Anyway, purely by coincidence, I found out that the 'book doesn't like to have the card plugged into it when alternate Ethernet is already selected in AppleTalk TCP/IP. So, the solution for me was to create 2 locations in location manager (a useful tool, even without this problem :) I created 'stand alone' and 'Networked' locations. The stand alone has AppleTalk and TCP/IP connecting via printer/PPP ports respectively, and both also inactive in the 'options' button. The Networked location is simply the way everything needs to be when actually connected (for me, connect via alternate Ethernet and DHCP server in TCP/IP and AppleTalk) Anyway, the card doesn't work when I restart the computer with it plugged in, so in these cases, I switch to 'stand alone', unplug the card (it won't unplug unless you switch location - it's still in use) then plug the card straight back in, and switch to networked. Voila! it works again. I have no idea if any of this is of use to you, if not, I think it was a nice (albeit pointless) story. :-) -- John -- 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: unsuscribe
Don't get too upset Gerald, your reply was all the way underneath the footers and other rubbish. If you're reply isn't straight after/before what you are replying too, why do you assume people will find and read it? -- John On 13/3/03 2:30 PM, Gerald R. Homeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somebody didn't read my email reply! I replied to an email entitled Unsubscribe. I wanted to know what this email was about. I didn't want to unsubscribe. THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE! To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gerald R. Homeyer wrote: unsuscribe -- -- 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: Apple's Warning to ATA/IDE users
Thanks, but you all are the experts! Can you instruct a rank amateur PB user how to switch off SCSI mode on his PB 190? Does this bug affect one's file sharing in any way? I was also wondering whether after all this time since 1998 if some sharp Mac hacker hasn't conjured up some solution. Thanks for the response! JimWG SCSI disk mode is only used when you plug a SCSI cable in the back of your powerbook, and then plug the other end into another computer. There is a control panel named Powerbook SCSI Disk Mode, but this only changes the ID of your hard drive. File sharing is in no way affected, neither is anything else, and the fix is simple: don't plug your book into another computer via the SCSI port. :-) The problem resides in the ROM of the books, which means no amount of hacking will fix it... -- John -- 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: Apple's Warning to ATA/IDE users
On 8/3/03 10:43 AM, palkasoft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh oh... I deleted the first post of this email because it didn't seem to really concern me and I wanted to keep my inbox clean. However its beginning to sound like it might explain my last week of terror between my Quadra 800 and PowerBook 190 which has a 5gb IDE hard drive in it. SNIP Does this article have anything to do with my above problem? If it does, can somebody repost the link? It sounds like it does... Here is the original post: --- Greetings: Mac Mavens: Please, your input on this alert that I'd no idea of at http://eshop.macsales.com/Descriptions/Specs/applepbhdtechnote.pdf. Your recommendations of what to do if you've already bought your drives! Thank you, JimWG -- John -- 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: 3400 - CD drive and floppy drive don't work
Hello Dan, I don't have a 3400, so I can't be certain, but I doubt that the cd-drive and the HD having the same ID will really matter much. They are the same on my 1400, and it works just fine. (Maybe because HD is ATA, and CD ATAPI??) Did YOU install the OS on this machine? Or did it come loaded on. I might be that someone put an incorrect system on the computer, and as such, doesn't like the CD and Floppy drives (doesn't explain why the Zip works...) Try Starting up the machine using a couple of different extension sets - All On, All Off, OS 9.1 only, etc etc to see if it might be an extension conflict. Maybe re-set the PRAM, don't know why it would work, but it's worth a try (hold down command-option-p-r just after you press the 'on' button). Have you tried starting up off a CD? I realise the CD is the thing that doesn't work, but perhaps if you plug a bootable disk in and hold 'c' down, it will work. If so, you will probably need to re-install the system. (I'm not sure if the 3400 needs 'c' held down during startup, or command-option-shift-delete. If one doesn't work, try the other :-) How do you know the SCSI works? If the machine refuses to ever know about the CD rom drive, you can maybe plug it into another mac, and re-install the system that way (seeing as CD/Floppy don't work). The fact that you can open the CD drive is (I think) a good sign - at least it has power :-) -- John -- 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 OS installation
So what to try next Is there any way to rescue this thing, or is it destined to be a paperweight forever? If it becomes a paperweight, then you, me, and everyone else on this list has 'failed'. So lets start with the various options from the top... :-) Suggestion 1. Have you tried copying the individual parts to floppies? From what I can remember, that isn't a simple drag and drop exercise, but rather, that you go through disk copy. I have version 1.4 on my 1400, and it has under the 'utilities' menu the option to 'make a floppy' (I could send it to you, but is a bit big to sent unsolicited). Now, I'm not sure of course, but if you point it towards the first of the 19 files you downloaded, and stick a floppy in the drive, it should make a disk something along the lines of System 7.5.3 Disk 1. Anyway, if all goes well so far, stick the newly made floppy disk into the 5300 and see if it boots. If it does, then we (and with that, I mean you :-) are in luck. Go ahead and make the 18 other floppies and slowly but surely install the system to the hard drive. SHOULD work, in theory anyway. Suggestion 2. Failing the first suggestion, see if you can get the SCSI cable to work again, I have never done that on a powerbook, maybe there is a key-stroke to hold down whilst starting up?? The point is, once it appears on the 7600's desktop, try copying the 7600's System Folder across (You may need to boot the 7600 up off a CD for this to work, otherwise it may be 'in use'). I realise that the system might not work, could be unstable (in fact, will _probably_ be unstable) but if it is enough to boot the 5300, that¹s all we are going for. (I once ran a 5500/225 with a version of system intended for use only on an iMac!! Didn't run WELL, but it ran, and was enough to install a fresh copy of the correct OS). If this works, It may be worth your while trying to install a custom version of 7.5.3. This way, you can then Upgrade again to whatever version you like, this time, with the correct system for the 5300. Suggestion 3. See if you can find a cheapo external SCSI CD drive... Don't know if it will work, but MAYBE you can start up/install off that?? Suggestion 4. Let somebody else deal with it. If your 5300 is in good condition, you might be able to sell it, and trade up to a different model. Place an add at ebay for it... I don't know what they go for, but I'm sure you should be able to get enough together to then go out and get yourself either another 5300 (WITH system this time) or even a x400. The joys of laptop CD-Rom could be yours... :-) Suggestion 5. I you really love this laptop, I'm sure an apple centre will be able to help, they have far more equipment to be able to deal with this kind of problem. This will probably be a little more expensive though... Suggestion 6. See if anyone on this list can help, by lending you a SCSI CD-Rom drive or something. I'm In Australia, so I doubt I'll be of much use to you :-) Good luck with it all, -- John -- 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: Is there a song or music writing program for 68K powerbook
512K!!! But she only has 68K!!! :-) John. On 6/3/03 3:45 PM, Gary D. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deluxe Music Construction set was an old program that ran on 512k Macs. Gary Tom Wilkinson wrote: My daughter has a 68K Powerbook 520c and I am looking for a song writing/recording program. Is there anything that will do the task for her? Thanks to anyone who can point me in the right direction. Tom -- 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: Is there a song or music writing program for 68K powerbook
Thanks Gart, I WAS joking, but that¹s ok, sarcasm doesn't really work in an e-mail... Just to state really the obvious, the 512K Mac was of course a 68K machine itself, and included the 68000 processor, not the (much faster and newer) 68020. :-) -- John. On 6/3/03 4:32 PM, Gary D. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 512K Mac was an '020 machine, much earlier than a 520c. The program was on floppies and ought to run on a 68k machine. Gart John Smith wrote: 512K!!! But she only has 68K!!! :-) John. -- 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: 1st post
Sid, Sometimes the server replies with an error... Usually best idea to just wait a little while before re-posting. (all 3 of your posts thus far have come through :-) I have a 1400 too, and I can certainly agree with the 'loveableness' of it. I can't however, really justify forking out for the G3. Yet... This list isn't that high-volume, and varies a fair bit, sometimes 30, others maybe 10. Either way, not the 100's you were talking of... Congratulations on your purchase!! -- John On 2/3/03 5:24 PM, Sid Barris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings! I am a brand new powerbook owner. Not a brand new owner of a brand new powerbook, however. I've taken the short money route and purchased a 1400c on ebay for less than $200, and spent more than that for a G3 upgrade. I love this little machine! So much, I bought another for a spare. Is this list high volume? I'm wondering, coz I already belong to a photographer's list that does over 100 posts a day, and I don't think my mailbox can hold too much more mail Anyways, Greetings to all powerbook owners from South Louisiana Sid Barras -- 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: C++ for Mac
Thanks all for that VERY quick reply :-) I'm downloading MPW now... -- John On 28/2/03 10:46 AM, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Smith wrote: Hello List, Has anyone had any experience with C++ compilers on their Macs?? I currently have to leave my beloved Apple machines in order to program on a pee cee, but if anyone knows of a good C++ compiler, I may not have to keep doing that... :-) Thanks for your help, John. gcc, if you're running OSX... That said, if you're coding for Windows machines, you're probably sol anyway, since you're going to need the windows libraries. If you're doing just C++ gcc (under OSX) or MPW (under OS9) are good, free, bets. -- 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: C compilers
All I'm doing is programming very simple little programs as part of a uni degree. I use 'Quincy' on a pee cee at home, and Code Warrior on the Uni Linux Machines, but if I could run something on my 1400, that would be much better, hence the MPW I'm (still) downloading... :-) -- John On 28/2/03 11:36 AM, David Deckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, if you're coding for Windows machines, you're probably sol anyway, since you're going to need the windows libraries. I thought there was a version of CodeWarrrior that could make Windows apps, much like the full version of the Mac version of RealBasic can make Windows apps (I realize RealBasic isn't a C compiler.) Even so, if Windows software is what you want to create, I'd think the whole process woule be better to do it on a PC, yes? -David -- 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: OS installation without CD drive: SOS!
Or, you could do the really hard 19-part download on your 2nd Mac, mount the combined image, convert it with DiskCopy into 1 big fat image, segment it with DropStuff into floppy-sized chunks, copy each chunk to the empty space on your 5300, expand them with Stuffit Expander, mount the big fat disk image, and install away. ;-) ... or not... heh -- Couldn't you just copy the 'really big fat image' onto the 5300's hard drive whilst in SCSI disk mode (seeing as you now have the proper cable)? Then install the OS with the 5300 booting up of a floppy disk? That way, you can just do the good 'ol easy install... -- John -- 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: What wireless cards should I consider?
Yeah, WE. :-) -- John On 19/2/03 12:11 PM, Dan Palka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WE ** Lots of hellos from Dan Palka's Quadra 800: The power to be your best. ** -- 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: How to mirror a drive
Don't know about the PC card slot, but I've heard of IDE to SCSI adapters, assuming you can find a way to power the drive, I guess that could work, but I have a feeling their price is more designed for permanent use... -- john On 17/2/03 10:59 AM, Ken Norris (dialup) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want to do: Mirror my drive on to a new drive. Is there a connector to hookup an _internal_ drive to a PB 1400 through the card slot? Ken N. -- 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: How to mirror a drive
My limited understanding of ATA drives is that the computer looks on the 'master ATA' drive first, then the secondary. You would probably have to set your powerbook HD to slave mode (using jumpers on the disk itself). Otherwise, like you say, the computer may start-up off the powerbook drive, or simply not recognise it, or crash on startup. Three scenarios which are useless to you :-) Of course, it could also simply work without a problem first go... But I've posted too many mails today already, I better let someone else get a word in... -- John On 17/2/03 2:47 PM, Ken Norris (dialup) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 2/16/03 5:50 PM, (PowerBooks) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:50:45 +1100 Subject: Re: How to mirror a drive From: John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't know about the PC card slot, but I've heard of IDE to SCSI adapters, assuming you can find a way to power the drive, I guess that could work, but I have a feeling their price is more designed for permanent use... -- First, thanks for the Re. I know the card slot supports hooking up any ATA compatible HD (need the apprpriate drivers to operate it, of course), so I was thinking all I might need is power, somehow. OK, suppose I pull it from the PB and plug it into my G4 tower as a secondary drive. What will happen when I boot the G4. Will it know it isn't the startup drive? What if I rename the HD in my PB, then do the above? Would that prevent the G4 from mistakingly booting it as the startup drive? If that would work, then I can pull the CD ribbon and plug the newer drive into it and use Disk Copy to drop the old drive onto it, right? TIA, Ken N. -- 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: PB1400 prob
Yep, holding 'c' won't work when booting up these machines, I can't remember the exact combination, something like command-option-shift-delete when starting up. Usually in times like this, I just hold down as many of the typical buttons (i.e., option, command, control etc etc) and go from there. I AM certain the delete button is used... Another one you might like to try is booting up normally (i.e., without the CD) and hold shift down, to turn all extensions off, including time-sync. Your third option (and in my opinion, the best one) is to start up holding the space bar down. Before any extensions load, the extensions manager will pop up. Turn off anything to do with time-sync and click continue. Good luck with it... -- John On 14/2/03 8:19 AM, djl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get a Time Synchronization error Type 41 about half way through the boot up. And I'm not able to get it to boot from any internal or external CD. It seems to 'see' that there is a CD but ignores my holding down the 'C' key request to boot up from a CD. Is it a pram battery issue? Thanks, Dan -- 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: PB1400 prob
On 14/2/03 10:28 AM, David Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Looks like the life expectancy of the 1400's PRAM battery is about 5 to 7 years. --- Which isn't really all that bad, I mean, I use rechargeable batteries in torches, radios, computer mice, etc etc, and I don't think I've ever had one last 7 years... -- 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: Please Help!
I'm in Australia Too. Nice place :-) I might be able to help too, I'm in Wollongong if it helps. -- John On 11/2/03 7:29 PM, Sebe Bolanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im In AUSRALIA, If anyone can help me! - Original Message - From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sebe Bolanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 5:16 PM Subject: Re: Please Help! Australia! How about that... Well, you may be in luck, because I think that at least three of our members are from there. Post your location to the list, and see if anybody's nearby. It might help to mention that a major town or city is near you. Good luck! Rob - Original Message - From: Sebe Bolanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 1:21 AM Subject: Re: Please Help! I'm in australia! -- 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: Ethernet pc card for 5300c/3400c
I use a Ositech Trumpcard, the Jack of Diamonds in fact. It is a combo modem/10-base-T Card. Works great! (This is in a 1400, but I can't imagine there would be much difference). As for the Cardbus issue, your 5300 has no hope, but your 3400 might... Have a look: http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Cardbus/Cardbus.html Goodluck with it all, -- John. On 12/2/03 12:27 AM, pook la roux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to know the brand names of some ethernet pc cards that would work on both the 5300c and the 3400c. Most of the cards I can get new off the shelf require cardbus (and we know we don 't have that...) so I'm sure I'm looking for something used. I did a search in the archives about it, and I know there is some kind of 3com card that is supposed to work with a modified farallon driver, but unless there is no other choice, I'd like to use something else. Thanks Pook -- 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: Please Help!
What happens when you try to start up? Do you get a chime? Does the screen turn on with a '?' flashing on it? Or does nothing happen at all? --john On 11/2/03 3:37 PM, Sebe Bolanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Mac Powerbook 5300/100 and It won't start up. I also have an external hard drive with a backup of my system folder and some programs and I have tried to start it up with that and that won't work ether. it is my only computer and I need it so I can continue with my studys Needing help urgently, Sebe -- 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: What to do when a PowerBook freezes?
Depending on the model, you can try the 'three finger salute', where you strike apple-control-restart. Otherwise, there might be a reset button on the back, behind the ports cover. Which model are you trying to restart?? John. On 10/2/03 9:47 AM, Bernadette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Group I have had Macs for years since my first Mac Plus back in the '80's. I got my first powerbook (that would run) on Ebay a few weeks ago. I have a question. What do I do if the system freezes? On the others if the system froze I turned off the main switch or the switch on the surge protector. What do I do with a powerbook? Can I safely unplug the external power supply from the back of the computer? Can I safely pop out the battery so it no longer has power? Or do I have to let it sit there frozen for an hour or three until the batter goes dead and it shuts itself off? Bernadette -- 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: digest
i just got 277 posts...hows in the !@@## do i get a digest of this list?? At the bottom of each one of those 277 posts, it says For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope this helps :-) John. -- 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: Powerbook 140 Dilemma
Try looking at http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html There might be a link somewhere in there to download a startup floppy disk. I haven't had much experience in the field of floppy disks I'm afraid... :-) Good luck with it, John. On 8/2/03 6:16 PM, K.L. Shelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Booting from a floppy... if I don't have the floppy (which I don't), that'll be difficult. And I doubt my campus helpdesk will have something that old. Is there anywhere reliable that I could obtain the floppy? I bought the computer itself for $15 from the Salvation Army where I worked at the time - and it lasted a good two months, at least, before I gave up on it. But, being a Salvation Army, uh, salvation, it had no disk, of course. Kathryn L. Shelly - Kate MHC Class of '03 Somebody said that it happens all over the world -- And I do believe that it's true. The sun's coming up and we're doing all the things that we should. Doesn't everbody here believe in the things we do? - Talking Heads, 'Perfect World' -- 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: Comparison: 540 vs 190
Clae, Obviously, you are in Australia, so I might be able to suggest another alternative. I recently bought a powerbook 1400c for the princly sum of $AU195. (about US$88) I realise this is a little more than both the machines you mentioned, but after a trade in of your 540 I think you will be much more impressed with the unit: Clae, Bruce Johnson and the other 5x0 owners on this list will probably disagree, but I'd have to say Go for the 190 The 5x0c is a nice machine (active matrix even), certainly. But generally, I think the 190 is probably the better trade off on features/price/availability. - Score 1 for the 190 (It's AUD46 cheaper) (190cs: 1, 540c: 0) -- Score -1, it will be a little more expensive -- 190 RAM (sometimes interchangeable with the 5300, but not always) is probably a few cents cheaper per meg, but not much. - Draw (190cs: 1, 540c: 0) -- My machine came maxed out at 64MB, probably a luck-of-the-draw thing, they are ex-optus machines, and seem to be configured a little differently -- The big savings advantage here is in hard drives. Yes, the 5x0 is SCSI, and 2.5 SCSI hard drives are rare and expensive (though I understand you can use a SCSI-IDE adapter to use a modern IDE disk). The 190 is IDE, so you can use just about any hard drive on the market today. - Score 1 for the 190 (190cs:2, 540c: 0) -- Chances are, you will get a minimum of 750MB, which should be plenty of room for basic word processing etc. Once again, I got one with 1.3 GB, but like I said, luck of the draw. The 1400 has an ATA HDD. -- Forget about using a CD-R with either machine. The 190 (besides not being SCSI Manager 4.3 compliant) doesn't have enough umph to do a whole lot of cd mastering. I can't speak for the 5x0, but I'd bet it's the same. - Score 1 for the 540c (just because) (190cs: 2, 540c: 1) -- No idea. I have a different machine I use to burn stuff, so haven't even tried on this one. I assume it would work though... -- The 190 has 2 PCMCIA slots built in. That's nice. Of course, it doesn't have a built-in modem, but who uses their 5x0's 19.2Kbps modem anyhow. PC card modems are cheap and widely available. Having PCMCIA is nice for other things too (like wireless LANs, flash cards, etc) Plus, the 190 has the expansion bay - if you are lucky enough to find a device other than the floppy, you have a pretty capable machine. (Magneto-Optical drives, hard drives, and power adapters have all been made for the expansion bay.) The card cage is available for the 5x0, but it is pretty expensive and rather rare. - Score 1 for the 190cs (190cs: 3, 540c: 1) -- PCMCIA slots are standard on the 1400, but aren't cardbus compliant. CD-Rom modules are avaliable, but will cost you a bit extra. Floppy is of course standard. -- The 5x0 has built-in ethernet, but it requires an AAUI-RJ-45 adapter that will set you back about $15 on eBay. For that money, you can get the 3Com 10bT PC card for the 190 and not have to carry around such a huge dongle. Of course, you will have to carry an extra PC card and it's dongle... - Score 1 for both (190cs: 4, 540c: 2) -- I got a 28Kbps/10BT pc card included, which covers me for my needs. -- They both have 68LC040s at the same speed (33/66). The 5x0 does have the various nice PowerPC upgrades, but if money is an issue, just go pick up a 5300 and be done with it (they should cost less than the 5x0 PPC upgrade all by itself). They will run the same software with about the same performance. They will both run OS 8.1 maximum (unless you upgrade the 540c with a PowerPC or exchange the 190 logic board for a 5300 logic board - a cheaper PPC upgrade) - Draw (190cs: 4, 540c: 2) -- 117/133/166 MHz of raw 603e power, G3 Upgradable!! -- Screen sizes are the same. The 540c is active matrix, the 190cs is passive. (They both do 8bit color, right?) - Score 1 for the 540c (190cs: 4, 540c: 3) -- Bigger screen, 11.3 inches, better resolution, 800*600 (opposed to the 640*480) and more colours (16 Bit vrs 8bit) -- Batteries for the 190/5300 are a dime a dozen just about everywhere. They are cheap and plentiful. 5x0 batteries are more expensive and a bit rarer, in addition to being not-so-intelligent intelligent batteries. The 5x0 can use two batteries at a time, the 190 only has 1 battery bay. - Score 1 for the 190cs (190cs: 5, 540c: 3) -- 1 battery bay, not particullarly smart, but mine lasts about 2 1/2 hours, with max brightness and no HDD spin-down -- The 190's power connector is notorious for being easily breakable and faulty. The free REA for the 190/5300 is going to be over Real Soon Now. The 540 is more robust. - Subtract 1 from the 190cs (190cs: 4, 540c: 3) -- I think this is the same type as on the Duo series. Very strong anyway... -- The 190 is a little smaller and lighter, so it's just a bit more portable. - Score 1 for the 190cs (190cs: 5, 540c: 4) -- Not sure here... -- The 190 does NOT have sound-in.
Re: pc card smartcard readers
I'm using an Omniflash Active Adapter (PCMCIA) in a PB 1400. This is a 4 in one reader, capable of memory stick, smart media, multimedia card and SD. Works great!! I bought it new, and was able to take my 'book into the store and try it out first, before laying out the dosh. Strangely, there is no mention on the website of the card (http://www.omniflashproducts.com/). Anyway, I run OS 8.6, and it needs no drivers to run in that. It will almost certainly work in a 3400, and I assume also in a 5300, but I can't be sure. Hope this helps, John. On 6/2/03 7:38 AM, pook la roux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone on this list use a pc card smartcard reader with a 5300 or 3400? I have a Fujifilm floppy card adapter, but it even says in the documentation not to use it on a PowerBook. The first floppy adapter we bought was a Sony device, and it failed to work at all on any machine we own. (The Fujifilm gizmo works fine on my 6500 ppc) -- 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
Battery Estimate
Hello, Does anybody know of a utility available that will give a running estimate of time left in the battery?? I¹ve seen screen shots of one in the control strip, but haven¹t been able to figure out how to get it working, if it indeed does... I¹m running a 1400c, with OS 8.6. Thanks, John. -- 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
A Question to the battery savey...
Hello, We had a discussion not long ago about re-packing battery packs in 1400's. But what I would like to know, is if one goes to the trouble of having the battery inside the battery pack replaced, is it not possible to put a different type of battery in?? Like a Li-Ion for example. Anyone know why this wouldn't be able to be done? John. -- 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: Battery Recondition question
Hello, I'm using Battery Recondition 1.5 in OS 8.6, but I imagine the two versions would perform in much the same way. When I click ok to go ahead with reconditioning, the screen turns white with an icon of the battery reconditioner popping up randomly around the screen. The Hard drive doesn't spin down either, presumably to drain the power out of the battery. It stays in this state for the duration of the recondition, (about 2.5 hours or so) and eventually displays a dialogue 'your battery was successfully reconditioned' or something to that effect. I didn't bother starting with extensions off... What you described doesn't sound right... Perhaps look for a newer version of the utility? It is very small, e-mail me if you would like a copy, as I imagine it is 'freeware'... John. On 2/2/03 4:35 AM, Dana Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, I have a question re: the following recondition question: I have a Duo 280c, with a spare Type III NiMH Duo battery that I would like to recondition in the hopes that it will improve it's recharge performance. I'm using the old Apple Battery Recondition utility, v. 1.1 as find at the ftp site. I boot up with extensions off (OS 8) to run the utility Here's my question: when one launches the program, what are the characteristic reactions from the unit? When I press OK to start the utility, the Duo immediately goes into a strobe mode (screen flashes on/off, cpu seems to pulse, and speaker crackles) for a few cycles, and then appears to shut itself off - wait, I checked, it does shut itself off, because I can reboot by simply pressing the power key. Is this normal? I've never owned a PBook nor dealt with such issues before, and I don't want to cause any collateral damage to the unit. Many thanks for fielding the question. Best regards, Dana -- 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: Plugging into LAN printer
It is completely possible, but you might need to spend a bit of money, or have no qualms about using a 'stolen' serial number... PC MacLan is a brilliant program I am using on a WinXP box, which allows file and printer sharing. I can access the windows hard drives (even the zip drive) from the various Macs in the house, using AppleTalk. Anyway, you can set it up such that your Mac prints to the the PC, because the PC in in fact emulating a PostScript Printer. It takes the postscript file and saves it in a specific folder. A THIRD program entitled ghost script then takes the PS file and prints it out. Sounds complex, but works like a charm. If you can get your Mac to share files on the XP box without MacLan (Mac services or something) then you don't need to spend a cent. Just download Ghost script (freeware) and then whenever you go to print, save as a postscript file in the specified folder on the PC. Hope some of this helps. On 28/1/03 6:21 AM, Andrew Kershaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Compaq PC with an ethernet card running Windows XP with a parallel printer. I want to access the printer with my PB 1400c, OS 8.6, Global Village PC card with an ethernet dongle. Can this be done? Sorry to burst your bubble, but probably not. Services for Macintosh is only available on Win XP Pro (correct?), and you probably have XP Home. Mostly it just provides access to the file sharing capabilities of a windows server so that AppleShare clients can access shared files. Assuming your XP machine is set up to share the printer, you'd still need the correct printer driver on your 1400. I'm guessing that the printer is not a LaserWriter clone, so LaserWriter 8 won't work for you. Still, you might try checking out the printer manufacturer's website and seeing if you can find drivers for the printer that will work for your setup... HP and QMS(?) made network laser printers that could be accessed with a Mac. I wouldn't hold my breath, though. Most PC-centric printers that aren't network ready out of the box (aka network laser printers) won't work with Macs when shared by a Windows machine. Heck, half the time they won't even support a direct Mac-to-Printer connection for their printers, having never bothered to write the drivers for them. Parallel port printers are usually in this category (not to mention that Macs don't have parallel ports). Peace, Drew -- 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: 3Com
This sounds suspiciously like a problem I had with a Jack of Diamonds PCMCIA card (in a PB 1400)... I too couldn't make the damn thing connect. Well, that¹s a half truth, it connected, but not nearly reliably enough. Once, I saw the servers in the chooser (via AppleTalk) but instead of connecting, I closed the chooser, and opened it straight back up again. This time, Nothing. I sent the card back, and have yet to get a replacement... Sorry, not a solution, but I thought I would share... :-) John. On 23/1/03 7:14 PM, David Deckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I tried the driver you have on your website. It didn't work either. I don't know what is the problem. I suppose it could be a bad card. It did put it on the desktop, but it wouldn't work. I really don't know what to do now. I guess drop back 10 and punt. Thanks Jim Jim, Welcome to my world. Let me guess, it looks great on the desktop, double clicking it impressively launches TCP/IP, TCP/IP recognizes it...and that's it. No communication. if the card appears on your desktop, and you didn't get a message saying there's no driver for it, it's working. So Jim you and I each have (in my case two) inoperaple dongles, because I'm guessing that like me, the LED doesn't light up on the cable? Or, perhaps it's possible the driver only works halfway in systems like ours. We need to test on a supported PC laptop to know for sure which scenario is true. -David -- 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: OS 8.6 and 1400c
G'day Ken, If all else fails, try a totally clean re-install of the book. When I got mine, it came with a clean install of 8.6 on it, but my experience with other computer 'experts' is that they know a bit about Pee Cee's, but not much when it comes to Mac. I played around for a little while on it, (it was, after all, a new toy :-), but eventually booted up off the OS CD, did a re-format of the drive (Low-level AND zero-all, HFS+), then a custom install of only the parts of the system I needed. Stuff like text-to-speech and web-sharing are quite useless for me, particularly on a Powerbook, so I figure I just won't install them to start with. Ran the usual desktop rebuild, but also a disk optimisation. Not sure if it is really necessary right after an install, but well, the book runs well now, so I'm happy to do it. I zapped the PRAM before installing anything too, not sure if it makes any difference, but hey, it can't hurt... John. On 21/1/03 6:09 AM, Ken Norris (dialup) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:18:31 +1100 Subject: Re: OS 8.6 and 1400c From: John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thanks John, -- I'm running a PB1400c/133 with OS 8.6, and for me, it's quite zippy. -- Really? I wonder if I'm still having extension conflicts. I've pruned them the best I can, but... --snip I try to stick to the most ancient programs I can live with. Generally, I find that using programs made at about the same time as the computer (ie, 1997ish) will work best as far as speed is concerned. -- Yes, that makes sense, but the main slowdown problems are occurring even in OS operations, like accessing folders. -- Internet is a little hard to use old software with, but perhaps try and source an older version of Photoshop? -- Well, I don't use it much either, so PhotoShop is OK. It's other stuff that's going slow. Searches, folder opening, program launches, etc. -- I sometimes get the pause thing you described, not only with the Powerbook, but also on a 5500/225 running 8.6. As far as I can tell, it is doing something or other with the network connections. The solution that worked for me (on the powerbook) was to use location manager to disable TCP/IP and AppleTalk when I didn't need them. -- Ahh. That strikes a bell. TCP/IP is off, but AppleTalk may still be on from connecting to the other Macs awhile back. I'll check it out and see if it makes a difference. -- If it tries to connect, and there is nothing to connect to, it does that pause thing. (When I had it on the 5500 it was just because I borrowed the Ethernet cable for something.) Also, if you have any servers set to 'connect at start-up' the machine spends what seems like an eternity looking for them. -- No servers now, but, if AppleTalk is on, the OS is probably still checking for a connection. Add the other special PB housekeeping stuff (battery status, etc.) and it gets pretty sluggish. -- Hope some of this helps :-) -- Yes, thanks much. Ken N. ** -- 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 Speaker Replacement?
Click on the link at the bottom of the e-mail Sir Jazz. The one that says Unsubscribe On 21/1/03 3:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Please remove my e-mail address from this message board. Thanks Sirjazz -- 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: Best OS for a 5300cs
I run 8.6 on a 1400/133, it is a snappy little system, although I would prefer it use a little less memory for the system, it is up to about 20 MB. I agree, a G3 would be great, but that would mean paying more for an upgrade card than I did for the whole machine, which is a little overboard, considering it runs what it needs to (Office 98) well. :-) I think the choice of operating system will change from person to person. If you want features over speed go for 9.x if you want speed over features go for 6.0.8 (just kidding :-)). In general, the older the OS, the faster. A good compromise for me is 8.6, but then again, I have a jaguar machine I use as a desktop, so I don't need the features 9 might offer. 8.6 has everything I'd want, like command-tab application switching, contextual menus, HFS+ support, and most 3rd party peripherals seem to want 8.6 as a minimum os. On 20/1/03 12:19 PM, Garry Hamblin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Garry Hamblin Saskatoon, SK iMac Indigo 500 on OS Xyeah baby! -- 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: OS 8.6 and 1400c
I'm running a PB1400c/133 with OS 8.6, and for me, it's quite zippy. I don't use Photoshop or anything like that, and I try to stick to the most ancient programs I can live with. Generally, I find that using programs made at about the same time as the computer (ie, 1997ish) will work best as far as speed is concerned. Internet is a little hard to use old software with, but perhaps try and source an older version of Photoshop? I used to use Photoshop 4.0 on a 7200/120, which, whilst not brilliantly fast, was acceptable. (of course, I don't do much with it, just a bit of playing. I have it, because it came with the scanner :-) I sometimes get the pause thing you described, not only with the Powerbook, but also on a 5500/225 running 8.6. As far as I can tell, it is doing something or other with the network connections. The solution that worked for me (on the powerbook) was to use location manager to disable TCP/IP and AppleTalk when I didn't need them. If it tries to connect, and there is nothing to connect to, it does that pause thing. (When I had it on the 5500 it was just because I borrowed the Ethernet cable for something.) Also, if you have any servers set to 'connect at start-up' the machine spends what seems like an eternity looking for them. Hope some of this helps :-) John. On 20/1/03 6:24 PM, Ken Norris (dialup) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been looking at some older Macs with older operating systems, and these leaner meaner things seem to work much faster than OS 8.6 does on my stock 133mHz PB 1400c. I've always felt like its slow as molasses in January. It takes forever to load anything, and occasionally stalls completely for 20 seconds or so. When it's online, sometimes it goes way longer than that, making me think it's locked up (or almost ready to). All the dynamic memory software is slow, too. Click a button and _wait_ for something to happen. Sometimes even the delete key bogs down. I have shut off all the extensions I can live without. I use OS 8.6 because it's really the oldest OS that will still run most modern software, like Explorer 5.1, PhotoShop 6.0, etc. I'm wondering if I'm the only one with this problem. What say ye? TIA, Ken N. -- 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
Flash Memory
Hello, I'm new to this list, so my apologies if this topic has been talked into the ground before, but I have read in various places on the web that it is possible to add a Flash Memory card to the PCMCIA slot of a Powerbook, set virtual memory to use the card, and as such essentially increase the amount of RAM in a 'book. This is more use to those of us with slightly more ram-challenged books :-). I have: PB 1400c/133 64/1.3 GB OS 8.6 Has anyone had any experience with the flash memory idea? Anyone tried it on a 1400c? Thanks!! John. -- 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: USB 1.1 or 2.1 on PB3400/180
Well, I haven't heard much about the whole thing, but I read on the web (Low End Mac I think it was) that the 3400 is already cardbus enabled, so I would have thought that you could just add any Mac compatible cardbus card in, and away you go, without the 'conversion'. But I am not certain on any of this, it seems stupid to market a product (ie, the conversion) that doesn't actually do anything, so I may well be wrong. Good luck anyway... On 19/1/03 9:16 AM, Gerald R.Homeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks! I'm new to powerbooks and this list and hope I can tap all your apparent wisdom. I recently acquired an excellent loaded PB 3400/180, and would like to use USB with it to enable me to use an IDE/USB hard drive to back up the drives on my 3400 as well as my 8500/G3 using retrospect. I'm using OS 8.6 on the 8500 and plan to use it on the 3400 as I'm comfortable with it and don't want to change. I planned to do the MCE cardbus conversion with the cardbus 2.1 USB card but in my searching I've come to the conclusion that you have to use OS X to support and use 2.1 otherwise it runs at 1.1 speed. Can't see paying $150.00 to convert to cardbus with a Macally USB card if it's only going to run at 1.1. I'm also told the older USB cards for the unconverted 3400 are very expensive. Would appreciate your knowledge and suggestions for a solution. Thanks to all who can help. THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE! -- 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
