Ibook 700 and date time error

2003-07-21 Thread Michael Thompson
Hi, Our iBook 700 running 9.2.2 has developed the strangest error. On restart/boot, it gives a date & time error message at finder launch that says the time zone is invalid. It also turns off Appletalk. Anyone heard of this before or know of a fix? I've searched but not found anything. Thanks! Mic

Re: warranties

2003-07-21 Thread K.
Not So I have replaced the HD's in both Pismo 400 and imac se400 and the serial # stayed right where it belonged... Regards, Mike K John Slavin wrote: > I think you loose it after you've replaced the hard drive. Don't know > about the PRAM. > > On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 02:27 PM, Thomas

Re: Pismo 400 chiming

2003-07-21 Thread Doug Behr
--- Lynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My cable connection seems rather slow and I get so > many > messages telling me that there isn't enough memory > to > open another window when I have plenty of memory for > the > applications. I have 320 mg memory and my computer > won't > let me open Express

Re: rush of intern modem

2003-07-21 Thread Jean-Marc Melchior
ok, thank you, sorry I could have found that on my own Jean-Marc On Lundi, juil 21, 2003, at 22:30 Europe/Paris, Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 21/07/03 16:25, "Jean-Marc Melchior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: it's pretty disturbing that while online, the modem does this sound through the speakers, doe

Re: Override Adm phrase or password

2003-07-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
Anthony Vo wrote: Hi Listers, I'm trying to install Jaguar on my Wallstreet (OS 10.1.4 & 9.1) but it keeps asking me to fill in the Administrative phrase or pwd. How can I overcome this? I don't have OS 10.1 or 9.1 disks and can not contact the previous owner for the pwd! Thanks boot from the Ja

Override Adm phrase or password

2003-07-21 Thread Anthony Vo
Hi Listers, I'm trying to install Jaguar on my Wallstreet (OS 10.1.4 & 9.1) but it keeps asking me to fill in the Administrative phrase or pwd. How can I overcome this? I don't have OS 10.1 or 9.1 disks and can not contact the previous owner for the pwd! Thanks -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: iBook 300 - Strange Behavior

2003-07-21 Thread Kyle Lee
Lewin, Interesting web site. Makes me want to buy the book. And no offense taken at all. I will spend more time on your website and see what it is all about. I will also let you know what I find out concerning the iBook. Your advice is dead on! Thanks. Kyle -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: rush of intern modem

2003-07-21 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 21/07/03 16:25, "Jean-Marc Melchior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it's pretty disturbing that while online, the modem does this sound > through the speakers, does anybody know how to deactivate these sounds > from the modem ? Did you check in the modem settings that the speaker is turned off?

rush of intern modem

2003-07-21 Thread Jean-Marc Melchior
it's pretty disturbing that while online, the modem does this sound through the speakers, does anybody know how to deactivate these sounds from the modem ? Thanks Jean-Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished D

MAC PBK Re: warranties

2003-07-21 Thread James G (Jim) Hardwick
20030721 System Profiler shows my sn as "not applicable" and I have reset my pram many times (Wallstreet 266, os 9.2.1). Just FYI, J -- Tanglewood Ordinary Restaurant On the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register True FamilyStyle Dining since

Re: iBook 300 - Strange Behavior

2003-07-21 Thread Lewin Edwards
Kyle, Thanks. And I did not mean to come across as terse. Aha, no problem. I wasn't sure. No offense taken! I kind of got my heckles up, because I design devices like this for a living (see for example http://www.zws.com/capabilities.html). Then I looked at your message again and I wasn't sure

Re: warranties

2003-07-21 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 12:12 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: K. wrote: Bruce Johnson wrote: Thomas Ethen wrote: The serial number is also in System Profiler! Only if the PRAM has never been reset. Wait ONE... My imac se400 and pismo 400 have been had the PRAM reset too many times to count and th

Re: iBook 300 - Strange Behavior

2003-07-21 Thread Kyle Lee
Lewin, Thanks. And I did not mean to come across as terse. I have a lot of experience with Macs of all kinds, but have never dealt with an iBook on this level. I do appreciate you taking the time to give me some great advice on this subject. Thanks again and sorry if I came across as rude. Ky

Re: warranties

2003-07-21 Thread John Slavin
I think you loose it after you've replaced the hard drive. Don't know about the PRAM. On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 02:27 PM, Thomas Ethen wrote: I reset mine quite often and it is still there! on 7/21/03 11:39, Bruce Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Ethen wrote: The serial number

Re: iBook 300 - Strange Behavior

2003-07-21 Thread Lewin Edwards
I can't work out with certainty whether you're being supercilious or simply terse, so I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. The most obvious candidate is simply to remove and reinstall any installed RAM expansion card. By this, I assume that you mean any extra additions made to the computer?

Re: warranties

2003-07-21 Thread Thomas Ethen
I reset mine quite often and it is still there! on 7/21/03 11:39, Bruce Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thomas Ethen wrote: > >> The serial number is also in System Profiler! > > > Only if the PRAM has never been reset. > -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Sm

Re: iBook 300 - Strange Behavior

2003-07-21 Thread Kyle Lee
Sounds like an intermittent connection. I agree. The most obvious candidate is simply to remove and reinstall any installed RAM expansion card. By this, I assume that you mean any extra additions made to the computer? But it could easily be an opened via or bad solder joint anywhere in the s

Re: Pismo 400 chiming

2003-07-21 Thread Lynn
System 9.21 Running IE 5.1 mostly Microsoft Word 98 I have been getting times where the computer seems to freeze up the scroll bar. Also, I had a big problem with OE 5 for email and lost many messages. It seems that it may be related to RealPlayer. I have not been able to get real player to wo

Re: warranties

2003-07-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
K. wrote: Bruce Johnson wrote: Thomas Ethen wrote: The serial number is also in System Profiler! Only if the PRAM has never been reset. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs Wait ONE... My im

Re: Pismo 400 chiming

2003-07-21 Thread Jim Anderson
> You don't state if you have any applications open or what OS > you are using. Your computer chiming is trying to get your > attention about something, but we need more info to determine what. This is probably common knowledge, but... You could try turning on speech for error m

Re: warranties

2003-07-21 Thread K.
Bruce Johnson wrote: > Thomas Ethen wrote: > > > The serial number is also in System Profiler! > > Only if the PRAM has never been reset. > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs Wai

Re: iBook 300 - Strange Behavior

2003-07-21 Thread Lewin Edwards
I have my hands on an iBook 300 Blueberry that was running fine. Then it started to shut down randomly. I checked the battery and the AC Adapter and they checked out. Now it will not boot at all. When I power it on, I hear the HD spin, but that is it. It does this when using just the battery or

iBook 300 - Strange Behavior

2003-07-21 Thread Kyle Lee
Hello all, I have my hands on an iBook 300 Blueberry that was running fine. Then it started to shut down randomly. I checked the battery and the AC Adapter and they checked out. Now it will not boot at all. When I power it on, I hear the HD spin, but that is it. It does this when using just th

Re: warranties

2003-07-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
Thomas Ethen wrote: The serial number is also in System Profiler! Only if the PRAM has never been reset. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: Pismo 400 chiming

2003-07-21 Thread Joe Ellis
- Original Message - From: "Lynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "G-Books" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:13 AM Subject: Pismo 400 chiming > HI, > > I hesitate to ask this because I do not want to know the > answer. > > My PB has been chiming or dinging about 8 times every s

Re: Pismo 400 chiming

2003-07-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
Lynn wrote: HI, I hesitate to ask this because I do not want to know the answer. My PB has been chiming or dinging about 8 times every so often. Not at startup. No startup issues. It usually happens when I have it on but am not using it. Does this signal anything bad? Some sort of alarm program?

Pismo 400 chiming

2003-07-21 Thread Lynn
HI, I hesitate to ask this because I do not want to know the answer. My PB has been chiming or dinging about 8 times every so often. Not at startup. No startup issues. It usually happens when I have it on but am not using it. Does this signal anything bad? Thanks, Lynn -- G-Books is sponsore

Re: Safari & Mail

2003-07-21 Thread Lewin Edwards
mean it doesn't show at all on the right edge. If so your external video may be active and configured as a second screen to the right of the main. I don't know if the Pismo can work this way or not. Some PowerBooks can only mirror the main screen while others can mirror Pismo supports separat

Re: Safari & Mail

2003-07-21 Thread Clark Martin
At 9:48 AM +0800 7/20/2003, Stuart Saunders wrote: When I open new pages in both Mail and Safari they put the scroll bar off the right hand side of Pismos' screen, with a larger space on the left. Anybody know how to open them so they have the full page on the screen? Does the cursor disappe

Re: Stupid question about email images...

2003-07-21 Thread Tim Hodgson
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:33 am -0500, Jeremy Derr wrote: >On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 01:08 PM, David Taylor wrote: > >> Jeremy, >> >> When you answered this email your image appears at the far right top >> corner of my email application. (I'm using Mac OS X Mail on a 12" >> PowerBook.) >> >

Re: Wireless card advice for my Wallstreet2 (SBC local phoneservice)

2003-07-21 Thread NIKON'S WORLD
On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 01:21 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just subscribed to the SBC DSL...29.00/mo for a year. I ordered the wireless set up, and have a Sharp laptop with an 802.11b card built in, but prefer using my vintage 1998 Powerbook around the house for most use. Should I buy