Re: Pismo troubleshooting

2004-07-30 Thread Mikael Byström
Adam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >The good news is that I already tested with a battery and eliminated >this as a possibility... unless the AC board has magical powers to >prevent a boot from a battery, which doesn't seem entirely likely. > >What I am trying to do here is figure out if it is the Lo

Re: Pismo troubleshooting

2004-07-30 Thread Alejandro
Does it charge the battery? Other thing to check: An Apple Service told me to remove the batteries (from Expansion Bay and the PRAM Battery. Now, without the AC Adaptor (without any kind of energy), press "Command - Control - Start button" for a minute. If you find a little "reset" button on the

Re: Pismo troubleshooting

2004-07-30 Thread Adam Thayer
On Jul 30, 2004, at 1:42 PM, Alejandro wrote: Check this. With powerbook attached to the AC Adapter (no battery), press the start button, and you should hear a little "contact" sound at the same time the Start button is pressed (before the Startup sound). If you don't maybe the machine is not power

Re: Apple Mail

2004-07-30 Thread Kurt Appling
RE: Ah Ha account advanced option, thankyou ,, I never new that was there On Jul 30, 2004, at 11:38 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jul 30, 2004, at 7:42 AM, Kurt Appling wrote: I have same problem, I have to download mail in both osx and os9 i dont know why Make sure your mail client isn't set

Re: Anyone know where to get expansion bay hard drives anymore?

2004-07-30 Thread Mikael Byström
Bruce, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >it's >just the rest of the hardware that goes with sticking it in the >different computers that is different. OK, thanks. I'll look for ther Matshushita instead. -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www

Re: Anyone know where to get expansion bay hard drives anymore?

2004-07-30 Thread Alejandro
The connectors are different, because the PowerBook G3 have TWO Expansion Bays. One for the battery and the other for a CD-Rom (or CD-RW), a DVD Rom (or DVD-RW), a Zip, a second Hard drive, a second Battery, a Floppy, etc. So you can put two batteries at the same time (one on each Bay) so the Power

Re: Anyone know where to get expansion bay hard drives anymore?

2004-07-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 30, 2004, at 2:54 PM, Mikael Byström wrote: Bruce, [EMAIL PROTECTED] macy.arizona.edu said: On Jul 29, 2004, at 6:14 PM, Alejandro wrote: Here's a strange Slot Loading DVD-R for the Lombard and Pismo PowerBook. Is it the connectors that prohibit this one from working with PB G4? It says "min

Re: OSX < zero

2004-07-30 Thread Mikael Byström
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >How does the ibook clamshell 300mhz run with OSX? OK, if you supply enough RAM, say 384 or more. -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web sit

Re: TinyURL (was Re: Anyone know where to get expansion bay hard drives anymore?

2004-07-30 Thread Clark Martin
At 12:48 PM -0400 7/30/04, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Jul 30, 2004, at 11:36 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Also a tip: That URL above is tailor made for TinyURL This site lets you take that gigantic URL and turn it into this: Indeed, however, a few note

Slim CD-IDE Adapter in PB G4?

2004-07-30 Thread Mikael Byström
Is the SlimCD-IDE Adapter, 50 pin to 40 pin, the connector that Powerbook G4 (or Powerbooks in general) use? Or what is the connector? -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for

Re: Anyone know where to get expansion bay hard drives anymore?

2004-07-30 Thread Mikael Byström
Bruce, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Jul 29, 2004, at 6:14 PM, Alejandro wrote: > > Here's a strange Slot Loading DVD-R for the Lombard > and Pismo PowerBook. Is it the connectors that prohibit this one from working with PB G4? It says "minimum requirements" a Powerbook G3 Pismo, but the headline sa

Re: OSX < zero

2004-07-30 Thread Alejandro
Check this site: http://www.xvsxp.com/ It tryes to compare OS X and Windows XP, but it shows where are things located on each System so maybe it will help you. I hope it will help. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks to everyone, on and off-list (especially > Bermellon01 & Bruce J.) for >

Problems with window configurations not saving. . .

2004-07-30 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 29, 2004, at 1:55 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello All, Just a few days ago, I noticed that my main hard drive window, and my OS X apps window don't keep my settings. I'm reffering to the background image within those two windows and the size of the icons, etc. Oddly, it's only these two w

Re: Bouncing

2004-07-30 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 30, 2004, at 6:16 AM, Terry McCune wrote: Hi Zoltan Yes, I'm stuck in bounce - back limbo. I belong to 4 LEM listservs and about 3 weeks ago, my messages and replies all started bouncing back. I tried to unsubscribe, but that request bounced back. I now regularly get those warning messag

Re: OSX < zero

2004-07-30 Thread COCCORP
Thanks to everyone, on and off-list (especially Bermellon01 & Bruce J.) for all the help! Until I get a OSX-4-dummies-type book this (tax-free-Georgia!) weekend, your information should keep me busy this evening... Much Appreciated! Craig W. Atlanta, GA Power corrupts. Absolute power's a blas

Re: Pismo troubleshooting

2004-07-30 Thread Alejandro
Check this. With powerbook attached to the AC Adapter (no battery), press the start button, and you should hear a little "contact" sound at the same time the Start button is pressed (before the Startup sound). If you don't maybe the machine is not powered at all. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >

Re: Pismo troubleshooting

2004-07-30 Thread csean
on 30/07/2004 18:36, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now here is the problem. It refuses to boot on AC or battery (known > good from a Lombard I have), no lights, sounds, or anything else. Since > the HD doesn't even start to spin, that makes me lean towards the logic > board (since that con

Re: Anyone know where to get expansion bay hard drives anymore?

2004-07-30 Thread csean
on 30/07/2004 18:36, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Here's a strange Slot Loading DVD-R for the Lombard > and Pismo PowerBook. The drive isn't so strange, as it's just a basic Matshita UJ-815 in a Pismo/Lombard expansion bay unit; what is strange is the $479 price! About $300 than the c

Re: OSX < zero

2004-07-30 Thread Alejandro
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Until yesterday, when I acquired a Wallstreet I with > a Sonnet 500mhz > processor upgrade w/ OSX installed, I had no > experience with the OS, except for seeing > it on the Macs at my local Comp USA/Apple > Store/Micro Centers... > > I know "Nooo-THi

TinyURL (was Re: Anyone know where to get expansion bay hard drives anymore?

2004-07-30 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Jul 30, 2004, at 11:36 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Also a tip: That URL above is tailor made for TinyURL This site lets you take that gigantic URL and turn it into this: Indeed, however, a few notes: 1) There are folks who "war drive" TinyURL...

Re: Apple Mail

2004-07-30 Thread Jan Musil
I'm using .mac account with POP3 and have the mails removed from server after 3 days after the download. I have no problems with it. Make sure your mail program is setup to remove the mails from the server and does not leave them there indefinitely. Jan -- G-Books is sponsored by

OSX < zero

2004-07-30 Thread COCCORP
Hello, Until yesterday, when I acquired a Wallstreet I with a Sonnet 500mhz processor upgrade w/ OSX installed, I had no experience with the OS, except for seeing it on the Macs at my local Comp USA/Apple Store/Micro Centers... I know "Nooo-THing, NOOOoo-Thing!" about OSX! My questions are the

Re: Apple Mail

2004-07-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 30, 2004, at 7:42 AM, Kurt Appling wrote: I have same problem, I have to download mail in both osx and os9 i dont know why Make sure your mail client isn't set to download the mail and leave it on the server (if you're using POP mail) If you're using IMAP mode mail, then there's a probl

Re: Anyone know where to get expansion bay hard drives anymore?

2004-07-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 29, 2004, at 6:14 PM, Alejandro wrote: Here's a strange Slot Loading DVD-R for the Lombard and Pismo PowerBook. http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp? query=slot+DVD+%22expansion+bay%22+Powerbook+G3&page=1&offset=2&result_ url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26requestId%3Db69db380e1feaecd%26

Re: Anyone know where to get expansion bay hard drives anymore?

2004-07-30 Thread COCCORP
In a message dated 7/29/2004 9:14:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Here's a strange Slot Loading DVD-R for the Lombard >and Pismo PowerBook. I can give a lil' testimonial on these... I don't know about the MCE version, but I recently acquired a slot-loading DVD-R DVD-RW

Re: Apple Mail

2004-07-30 Thread Kurt Appling
I have same problem, I have to download mail in both osx and os9 i dont know why On Jul 29, 2004, at 8:36 PM, Stuart Saunders wrote: I got the usual 'Your mail box is full" email from Apple on Monday. So I cleaned out the inbox, to around 150 messages and 2 mb. Now Mail shows 187 messages and 2

Re: Pismo Troubleshooting?

2004-07-30 Thread Mikael Byström
Adam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Am I on the right track >leaning towards the logic board, or have people had situations where >there was no HD sound with a bad processor? Are you sure the Soundcard gives power to the I/O board? This was the reason in a dead Pismo I dissected recently. -- G-Bo