[Duo2400] OT: Well, sorta...It involves unsupported X!

get an OSX blue screen--but nothing freezes. A three finger salute and a PRAM zap, and I can reboot into 9.1 again. What gives! I took out all PCI cards and am using a Seagate drive formatted with 9.1's Drive Setup. Frustrated to come close! Scott Strungis -- Duo/2400 List, The frien

[Duo2400] Re: PB 2400 with X!?

My card is a PN595a and is not supported out of the box within X according to the Proxim site. Did you all use XPF for the install? Are there any third party solutions out there? Proxim gives me the chipset specs...That will help me under Unix, but not X I think. Or would it be easier to ge

[Duo2400] OMG...GLOD and Click of Death...HELP w/ 2400c!!

expect any possibility of returning it to the seller. HELP! Thanks! Scott Strungis -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> Be sure to visit Mac2400! <http://www.s

[Duo2400] Re: OMG...GLOD and Click of Death...HELP w/ 2400c!!

At 04:40 AM 2/6/02 -0800, you wrote: >My 2400 had the GLOD... but recovered. I had a 5300 that GLODed too. >Traded it for a working 2300. Guess it was worth more broken. So how did it recover? Mine's comatose right now and I've only used her for about an hour total! Scott -- Duo/240

[Duo2400] Re: OMG...GLOD and Click of Death...HELP w/ 2400c!!

. That's it...No power surges, drops, bumps or anything. There's nothing on the HD accept two clean installs of the Mac OS on two partitions, and a copy of Navigator. What's a NLOD? Thanks for the forthcoming update. Scott Strungis -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest plac

[Duo2400] Re: OMG...GLOD and Click of Death...HELP w/ 2400c!!

cking up a screwdriver. There are an awful lot of screws! Scott Strungis -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> Be sure to visit Mac2400! <http://www.s

[Duo2400] Re: OMG...GLOD and Click of Death...HELP w/ 2400c!!

Okay, turns out that the red and black leads on the right are the speaker leads. Disconnect those and there is no click upon hitting of the reset button. There is another set of leads that go to the underside of the LB that are connected on top on the left side of the LB. I plugged in a KB,

[Duo2400] Re: OMG...GLOD and Click of Death...HELP w/ 2400c!!

Damn it damn it damn it! Got through two restarts, and a shutdown without the RAM card in and (presumeably) the PRAM disconnected. Switched over to OS 9.1 to set its Energy Saver and did not have enough RAM with a shift restart. I shut down, popped the RAM card in and ... GLOD. Took out the

[Duo2400] Re: OMG...GLOD and Click of Death...HELP w/ 2400c!!

I know that I am getting power because I can hear the speaker click and give faint white noise when I hit the external KB power button. Couldn't make note of that till partial dissassembly so that I could put the little speaker right up to my ear. Right now I cannot get the logic board out.

[Duo2400] Re: OMG...GLOD and Click of Death...HELP w/ 2400c!!

Is there every any good news about these Powerbooks on this list? Scott -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at Be sure to visit Mac2400!

[Duo2400] Re: OMG...GLOD and Click of Death...HELP w/ 2400c!!

I put her back together with a minimum of fuss (and only one broken fastener and about 4 leftovres :) ). All is the way it was. All right, I shall keep her! But I cannot fix her. Someone mailed me off list and suggested trying a 2300c adapter as they are more reliable about voltage. At l

[Duo2400] Re: Adapter Question

Can the 2300c's adapter also be used with the 1400c or the 2400c? Thanks! Scott Strungis -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> Be sure to visit Mac

[Duo2400] Re: Adapter Question

What's GURU? I am asking because I am contemplating the purchase of an adapter-less 1400c for a song. My 2400's adapter says "Macintosh PowerBook 2400c 36W AC Adapter" on it. Model No. M4328 This is NOT reflected in the Knowledge Base at Apple BTW. Could this have something to do with my GLOD

duolist@lists.themacintoshguy.com

Hi again! I was browsing the mac2400 site looking for a teardown manual--found it, it has 30 + steps--and I found a lin kto DT&T. Their policy on a $30 labor charge, free diagnostic, and 6 mo warantee seems like a sweet deal. What are your impressions of this place? Who has had work done?

[Duo2400] Re: OT: Damaged installerdisks of PowerPrint

PowerPrint is an adapter that allows physical connection between a Mac Serial port and a parallel printer's port. The software that goes along with it provides emulation so that you can use your Mac with almost any parallel port printer in emulation mode. Great for laptops. I got my Gramma

[Duo2400] Re: FS: Duo stuff

Yeah, I have to agree with that assessment of higher prices. 2300c Duos are going for well over $100 on eBay. I think someone's trying to lowball you. Scott -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at

[Duo2400] Re: Duo 230 Problem :-(

7.1 is a GREAT, fast system for any 030 or 040 based Mac. I use it all the time for speed. Yes you can use OT with that OS. You can also drop a copy of the 68k CFM runtime enabler (init) into your system folder in order to run later versions of Netscape on that machine if you want. Heck, wi

[Duo2400] Re: new PB 2400 owner

Not to break chops on you fine Duo owners, but there isn't a PowerBook out there that will be swamped by a word processor. No one can outtype a Powerbook's processing power. You can adequately word process on a PowerBook 100 running older Word, Word Perfect or, my favorite, Write Now 4.0. I

[Duo2400] Re: 2400 strange screen - mine also

tion for the screen is at fault. The connection ribbon for the display is behind the left hinge. Scott Strungis -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> Be sur

[Duo2400] Re: OMG GLOD, etc. SOME RESOLUTION!

AC adapter-in and IO board are fine. Will my 2400c fail again? Are there things I should NOT do? Thanks! Scott Strungis -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.

[Duo2400] Re: On line speed, 1400c vs 2400c

At 05:05 PM 2/20/02 -0800, you wrote: >Get DSL All slow computers show what appears to be improved speed. Even a >280c seems to have much more Zip to it... > >Brandy I concurmy 540c flew connected to my home's DSL line via Proxy Server. Dialup is just another network and is slow. Scott

[Duo2400] Re: Installing iMac's OS 8.6 CD onto a 2400.

You can pull it off by running the OS installer that is buried in the CD's directory and not the general "let's get started" type of installer alias. That's meant to run on only one sort of Mac--the one that the CD says its for. I guess it uses a Gestalt call or something. I had that proble

[Duo2400] 2400c GLOD update and repair!

AC adapter-in and IO board are fine. Will my 2400c fail again? Are there things I should NOT do? Thanks! Scott Strungis -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.

[Duo2400] Re: 2400c GLOD update and repair!

Well, I do keep a PowerBook 180 around for emergencies so that I can still do my grades. It's not a 2400, but it gets by. I have owned two "fragile" PowerBooks--the 100 and the 5300c. Neither one of them have failed in the hardware department while I used them and I used them everyday. Hope

[Duo2400] Re: Fresh install with a network boot floppy?

At 03:03 PM 3/1/02 -0700, you wrote: >I want to put a new, bigger IDE HDD in my 2300, create a MacOS partition on >part of it, and do a fresh MacOS install into that partition. But I don't >have a CD. I do have a Duo Dock with ethernet though. Is it possible to >boot from floppy and have AppleS

[Duo2400] Re: 2400c FIXED!

I am in four-pound PowerBook heaven! Two partitions, one with 8.1 and the other with 9.1 (for idisk, itunes, etc). A nice Farallon PC card Ethernets the little guy to my school's network. Turned out to be a bad processor card (thanks Sidney and THANKS DT&T). Now I've been puttering with it

[Duo2400] Re: Data recovery and a good home?

I got the chimes, clicks and GLODs that you speak of. DT&T was able to fix my machine for $180 plus shippingTurned out to be a bad processor card. I never got cache errors or anything like that. DT&T charges parts, plus shipping plus a flat $30 for labor. Scott -- Duo/2400 List

[Duo2400] Re: Mystery Ethernet card in DuoDock

Open the Dock...Do a Google search for Duo Dock Disassembly and you'll find a nice PDF file for the takeapart. I had to do that to put an Ethernet card into my old Dock. Scott -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ a

[Duo2400] Re: Which wireless card

At 08:17 PM 3/7/02 -0500, you wrote: >Lucent Orinoco Silver turbo in a 2400c running OS 9.1 > >On 3/7/02 7:25 PM, "Mark Semon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey sports fansif I recall, there may be some specific 802.11 cards > > which will work in the 2400, as opposed to any 802.11 card. No

[Duo2400] Re: OT: Sound Jam Plus or iTunes for 2400c 8.6?

RE: iTunes There used to be a patch that allowed you to install iTunes 1.1 on an OS 8.6 Mac. Unfortunately, you cannot obtain version 1.1 anymore from Apple's servers. Plus, Apple was not too happy about this patch and squelched any sites sponsoring the file. I used it for a while, but the

[Duo2400] Re: dusting off a comet LINUX STYLE.

>> >>Can anyone tell me if ANYONE has gotten a decent Linux going on their >>2400c? It's the closest I'll ever get to X. >> >>Scott I am a new Linux convert thanks to an install of YDL 2.1 on my 6360, and RedHat 7.0 on my AMD box I am TRYING to put a Linux on my stock Comet and have str

[Duo2400] Re: No Subject

I tried an appletalk System 8 install via a file shared CD ROM on my desk at work...The installation took a couple of hours, but worked. When I did the same trick to update to 8.1 it rendered the 2300c unusable because of a missing library file. I could not remedy the mistake till I got my ha

[Duo2400] Re: This is the life!

One 2400c for me and a nice solid 180 for backup in case I GLOD or fail again! Scotty -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at Be sure to visit Mac2400!

[Duo2400] Re: OT MAC More 3.1 WinTel counterpart?

At 07:59 PM 4/14/02 -0400, you wrote: >Greetings all Duo friends, > >I love my Duos 280, 290C, 2300C, PB 540C, and Lombard 333 MHz. I use the >great old outliner, presentation program More 3.1 produced by Symantec on all >my Macs. What's a 290c? Well...SOMEONE has to ask! Scott -- Duo/

[Duo2400] Re: RAM for Duo 2300c

For an older machine, the Duos are awesome...I have owned a 280c, a 2300c and am the current proud owner of a 2400c and that one is the BEST! Scott -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at

[Duo2400] Re: RAM for Duo 2300c

At 10:10 PM 5/12/02 -0400, you wrote: >At 09:57 PM 5/12/2002 -0400, you wrote: >>For an older machine, the Duos are awesome...I have owned a 280c, a 2300c >>and am the current proud owner of a 2400c and that one is the BEST! >> >>Scott > >I love mine ;) A 280c is my primary laptop. I keep trying

[Duo2400] Re: AC Adapter needs!

Turns out that I BROKE the wire right at the boot under the insulation on my 2400c's DC brick. Can anyone tell me what AC adapters are compatible with the 2400c to make eBaying easier? Or if you have a spare to sell, mail me off list. Heck, mail me offlist for advice as well! Scott Str

[Duo2400] Re: outdoor networking

You could run the phone net through lightly buried conduit if you could prep it ahead of time, but that is labor intensive. Scott -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at

[Duo2400] Re: Differences between Duo 270c and 2300 lids

> Does the 270c have a trackpad or a trackball? The 270c has a trackball. Based on some online reading, the trackpad and trackball assemblies are interchangeable as some enthusiasts prefer the ball on their 2300c's. Scott -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listser