Pismo ram fit in 500mhz iBook?

2003-03-03 Thread Ryan Stewart
Will the ram from my Pismo fit in a friends 500mhz ibook? I think the ram is high profile so that could be a problem. I just need to fit it in for a minute as I need to test if the ram is faulty. The ram is showing up as 256 on my computer and I get the dialog in os9 boot: Built in memory test

Re: Pismo ram fit in 500mhz iBook?

2003-03-03 Thread Ryan Stewart
Will the ram from my Pismo fit in a friends 500mhz ibook? I think the ram I don't know if the RAM will fit your friends machine or not but your description of symptoms would lead me to believe the card is defective. You could confirm it with your hardware test CD if you have one. Do you have

Re: Wallstreet Saga

2003-03-02 Thread Ryan Stewart
I am in need of spiritual counseling about my Wallstreet 266. Or advice, anyway. Here’s the scoop. I purchased it cheap from a government auction source, thinking I might return from the Windows Wayward Way, though right now my Thinkpad/Windows 2000 is my trusty sidekick. But I have this

Re: File (or application?) mapping in OS X?

2003-03-02 Thread Ryan Stewart
Is there a way to add an application to the list of choices available in the pop-up open with list in the get info window of a file in Jaguar. In particular, I would like to map tiffs to open in OmniPage but OmniPage is not available in the list of apps that comes up. Get Info on your tiff

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

2003-03-01 Thread Ryan Stewart
Disklock looks interesting. Multiple users under 9.2.2 also looks OK. Any comments about the reliability/security of the above? F. Multiple users under 9.2.2 is kind of a childs toy of security compaired to a firmware protected multi-user OSX computer. Ryan -- G-Books is sponsored

Re: Hard drive testing question

2003-02-28 Thread Ryan Stewart
I'm interested, along with a few others, in going inside some bad hard drives. Does anyone have any suggestions on what type of equipment we should have to be doing that type of work? Well if you are planning on trying to use the drive again after opening it, you need a $500,000 clean room

Re: Pismo dvd drive/was Re: Playing CD's

2003-02-25 Thread Ryan Stewart
This is what I have for swapping drives: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/PB_G3/oem_combo_drives/build_guide/build_combo_dr ive.html LOL, That's it! thanks for doing my homework Tom! =) I would like to keep this thread very active as lots of people have Pismo (firwire 2000) laptops. If apple is

Re: Pismo dvd drive/was Re: Playing CD's

2003-02-25 Thread Ryan Stewart
Ryan, Just curious...what are the so many problems that you have with your Pismo? Mike Kochkodin Oh let me count the ways: (Day.month.year) Computer purchased on 12.1.2001 27.4.2001 Battery will not hold charge. Replaced 5.11.2001 LG-8080B (DVD) stopped mounting DVDs, CDs shortly after.

Re: Pismo dvd drive/was Re: Playing CD's

2003-02-24 Thread Ryan Stewart
: One of my friends got Apple to replace his LG drive under Apple Care and : they send another LG drive as the replacement, so they must not feel it is a : problem with the brand of drive. Sigh, my dvd drive had to be replaced and under AppleCare, they sent me another LG :( So far so

Re: Battery maintance tips

2003-01-14 Thread Ryan Stewart
Hello everyone, I just bought a brand new battery for my lombard, and before I start messing around with it, can someone let me know how you properly maintain these things? Also are there any special things you need to do to make sure the battery life meter on the control strip is correct?

Pismo DVD/CD failure (LG-8080B)

2002-12-12 Thread Ryan Stewart
I am sending my Pismo in for repairs for the third time because of the DVD drive or battery failing. This time they showed some concern about it being repaired multiple times. Is there anyone out there who has a success story where the DVD failed (the LG kind) and was repaired/replaced by apple

Re: Pismo Sound Trouble

2002-12-03 Thread Ryan Stewart
Are you using OS9 or OSX? It could be a software problem (hopefully). Greetings from Pforzheim, Ryan hello my Pismo has got same strange behaviour.. First I discovered that it sometimes stop playing sounds.. Reboot or sending it to sleep and waking up again sometimes helped and the

Re: Rotate LCD screen?

2002-10-11 Thread Ryan Stewart
out on your PB. -Ryan Stewart Does anyone know of a software way to get a powerbook's screen to show upside down? I want to put a cheapo DVD player/GPS mapper in my vehicle (the 7 screen crap-ola they sell [at a circuit city, for example] would run over $2.5k). I want to place the PB

9.2 image from 10.2

2002-09-19 Thread Ryan Stewart
I read online somewhere that it is possible to find the invisible 9.2 images on my 10.2 install disks. Could someone post a link to these instructions? 10.2.1 is out... Thanks all, Ryan -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Ms-dos format?

2002-08-15 Thread Ryan Stewart
So I just broke down and bought a new 80gig external for my Pismo. I want to format half of the drive so it is readable on a PeeCee. Why is erase as ms-dos missing from os 9.2.2 and the disk util in OSX? Is it something with the File Exchange control panel in OS9? Help.. -Ryan Stewart -- G

Re: Dead Pismo

2002-08-15 Thread Ryan Stewart
This is highly likely, but almost everybody that pops the processor card out of their pismo doesn't get it in tight the first time. You need to press pretty hard on that sucker. Just when you think you are going to crack the thing, it pops into place where it should be! -Ryan Stewart That's

Re: Ms-dos format?

2002-08-15 Thread Ryan Stewart
Yea, but I remember being able to click erase disk in the old 8.5os and before. There was a MS-dos format along with mac extended and non-extended. Tia Ryan So I just broke down and bought a new 80gig external for my Pismo. I want to format half of the drive so it is readable on a PeeCee.

Re: my first G3 (300) PowerBook - file transfer problem

2002-05-20 Thread Ryan Stewart
AAAgrrrhh, i found it!!! http://www.macsonly.com/ethernet.html this is overkill with connecting 2 macs with a crossover cable, but it is good info I think. Ryan AAaaagh! This is really frustrating. How can I find out if the ethernet port on my PowerBook even works? I

Re: my first G3 (300) PowerBook - file transfer problem

2002-05-20 Thread Ryan Stewart
sorry, bad conduct, replying to my own post AND i am off topic, but this is a good place for mac help and searches (i found it looking for the crossover networking how to page). http://www.macinsearch.com/index.html/ AAAgrrrhh, i found it!!! http://www.macsonly.com/ethernet.html

Re: Wallstreet/OS X : PCMCIA

2002-04-20 Thread Ryan Stewart
I have a Pismo and my compact flash card mounts perfectly. You must be running at least OSX version 10.1 or later. In versions 10.0.4 and earlier, it wouldn't mount. The driver for mounting is built into the OS. I don't know about the DVD, or other specialty cards in your Wallstreet, but I would