Re: Dead Wallstreet

2005-05-26 Thread David Lesher
What's the possible causes --- the power regulator board? Possible, have you tried resetting the power manager? Good call... I'd tried this once to no avail but the 2nd shot was a winner "I'm not dead yetI'm feeling much better" -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2005-05-26 Thread Tom and Lisa P
Sigh; the wallstreet I use around the office has died. It was plugged in and the next day, the battery was dead and it won't charge or start. It's not the power adapter; I tested it and tried another... What's the possible causes --- the power regulator board? Does the AC jack wobble a bit,

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2005-05-26 Thread Gene Osburn
Sigh; the wallstreet I use around the office has died. It was plugged in and the next day, the battery was dead and it won't charge or start. It's not the power adapter; I tested it and tried another... What's the possible causes --- the power regulator board? First thing to try is PMU reset.

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2005-05-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 26, 2005, at 9:20 AM, David Lesher wrote: Sigh; the wallstreet I use around the office has died. It was plugged in and the next day, the battery was dead and it won't charge or start. It's not the power adapter; I tested it and tried another... What's the possible causes --- the p

Dead Wallstreet

2005-05-26 Thread David Lesher
Sigh; the wallstreet I use around the office has died. It was plugged in and the next day, the battery was dead and it won't charge or start. It's not the power adapter; I tested it and tried another... What's the possible causes --- the power regulator board? -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: Almost Dead Wallstreet (update)

2004-12-03 Thread Tom and Lisa P
Glad to hear its up and walking. Try running a CD cleaner through the CD drive. Sounds like its dirty or out of focus. There is an adjustment process for the drive, I had to do it for my 1400, but its a little complicated. Somebody had directions for the PB1400 CD drive (should be similar). I don't

Re: Almost Dead Wallstreet (update)

2004-12-03 Thread John McGibney
Glad to hear its up and walking. Try running a CD cleaner through the CD drive. Sounds like its dirty or out of focus. There is an adjustment process for the drive, I had to do it for my 1400, but its a little complicated. Somebody had directions for the PB1400 CD drive (should be similar). I don'

Re: Almost Dead Wallstreet (update)

2004-12-02 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 02/12/04 23:22, Katherine Zysk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had the Wallstreet that had the disallowed symbol while starting in 10.2 > > I borrowed a ibook and moved my HD over. It still had the disallowed symbol > so I put a 9 start-up CD in, and after starting from that told the HD to >

Re: Almost Dead Wallstreet (update)

2004-12-02 Thread Katherine Zysk
I had the Wallstreet that had the disallowed symbol while starting in 10.2 I borrowed a ibook and moved my HD over. It still had the disallowed symbol so I put a 9 start-up CD in, and after starting from that told the HD to start from 9. Put it back in the Wallstreet and it is running again in 9

Re: Almost Dead Wallstreet

2004-12-01 Thread Bob
The National Enquirer reports at 6:35 PM -0500 12/1/04, Katherine Zysk wrote: > >>> > >>> Did you add any memory to it? > >>> > >>> -Laurent. > >> About a year or two ago, I think that it has 256 > > > > Then, you might want to take it out to see, although you might not have > > enough memory left

Re: Almost Dead Wallstreet

2004-12-01 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
>Why does the disallowed symbol come up. >What does it mean? Bad or unbootable OS X install. >Not enough ram? >Bad ram? Nope. Bad RAM might have caused your install to fail - I missed the start of the thread >I did get it to install and it ran fine, I booted into 9 to work on some older appli

Re: Almost Dead Wallstreet

2004-12-01 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 01/12/04 18:35, Katherine Zysk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you add any memory to it? -Laurent. >>> About a year or two ago, I think that it has 256 >> >> Then, you might want to take it out to see, although you might not have >> enough memory left to install OS X. I'v

Re: Almost Dead Wallstreet

2004-12-01 Thread Katherine Zysk
>>> >>> Did you add any memory to it? >>> >>> -Laurent. >> About a year or two ago, I think that it has 256 > > Then, you might want to take it out to see, although you might not have > enough memory left to install OS X. I've read a lot of complaints from > Lombard users unable to install OS X

Re: Almost Dead Wallstreet

2004-12-01 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 01/12/04 17:37, "Katherine Zysk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 30/11/04 22:20, "Katherine Zysk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I am working on my Wallstreet. >>> >>> First it had a bad dc card (plug moved up and down) >>> It wouldn't charge right so I replaced it. >>> >>> With that in

Re: Almost Dead Wallstreet

2004-12-01 Thread Katherine Zysk
> On 30/11/04 22:20, "Katherine Zysk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am working on my Wallstreet. >> >> First it had a bad dc card (plug moved up and down) >> It wouldn't charge right so I replaced it. >> >> With that in place I put in the batteries and they would not charge. >> >> I thought

Re: Almost Dead Wallstreet

2004-12-01 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 30/11/04 22:20, "Katherine Zysk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am working on my Wallstreet. > > First it had a bad dc card (plug moved up and down) > It wouldn't charge right so I replaced it. > > With that in place I put in the batteries and they would not charge. > > I thought maybe the l

Almost Dead Wallstreet

2004-12-01 Thread Katherine Zysk
I am working on my Wallstreet. First it had a bad dc card (plug moved up and down) It wouldn't charge right so I replaced it. With that in place I put in the batteries and they would not charge. I thought maybe the loose plug caused a problem with the power and charge card that the batteries plu

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2004-11-25 Thread Tom Peterson
L PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clark Martin Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 5:28 PM To: G-Books Subject: Re: Dead Wallstreet At 4:18 PM -0700 11/24/04, Bob wrote: >The National Enquirer reports at 4:30 PM -0800 11/23/04, Tom Peterson wrote: I have a Wallstreet with a 40Gb IBM/Hitachi drive install

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2004-11-25 Thread Bob
The National Enquirer reports at 5:28 PM -0800 11/24/04, Clark Martin wrote: >At 4:18 PM -0700 11/24/04, Bob wrote: > >The National Enquirer reports at 4:30 PM -0800 11/23/04, Tom Peterson wrote: > > > >>With all due sympathy, My wallstreet does not like to wake from sleep. > >>It does however reb

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2004-11-24 Thread Clark Martin
At 4:18 PM -0700 11/24/04, Bob wrote: The National Enquirer reports at 4:30 PM -0800 11/23/04, Tom Peterson wrote: With all due sympathy, My wallstreet does not like to wake from sleep. It does however reboot to OS9 when this happens. I have replaced the hard drive on my poor beast and that has cau

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2004-11-24 Thread Bob
The National Enquirer reports at 4:30 PM -0800 11/23/04, Tom Peterson wrote: >With all due sympathy, My wallstreet does not like to wake from sleep. >It does however reboot to OS9 when this happens. I have replaced the >hard drive on my poor beast and that has caused me to recommend the >following

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2004-11-24 Thread Mikael Byström
Pat Heidingsfelder said: >So I figured I would >break it open and unplug the pram battery. Please don't use such strong words as "break" around here. It's scary. Did you ground yourself when you took it apart? > Tried it out, same thing. I am just going to >have to unplug the pram, or could it b

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2004-11-23 Thread Tom Peterson
With all due sympathy, My wallstreet does not like to wake from sleep. It does however reboot to OS9 when this happens. I have replaced the hard drive on my poor beast and that has caused me to recommend the following voodoo trick. Take a metal object ( I have used pocket knives, watches, tiny

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2004-11-23 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 23/11/04 19:05, "Pat Heidingsfelder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know this has been talked about before, but I would like to ask > anyway. > I have a Wallstreet that will not boot. It has been behaving fine with > a clean Jaguar install. I left it sleeping for a while then come back > and

Dead Wallstreet

2004-11-23 Thread Pat Heidingsfelder
I know this has been talked about before, but I would like to ask anyway. I have a Wallstreet that will not boot. It has been behaving fine with a clean Jaguar install. I left it sleeping for a while then come back and nothing. Try to restart, nothing. I try to do the pram reset holding fun

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2003-11-07 Thread Andrew
>At 11:09 AM -0700 06/11/03, Andrew wrote: >>Thanks to all list members for your helpful replies on this topic. From the >>emails I recieved it seems that the first thing I should try is replacing >>the PMU. Does anyone have a source for these? I've seen them online in the >>past for $20US, but I c

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2003-11-07 Thread Bill Briggs
At 11:09 AM -0700 06/11/03, Andrew wrote: Thanks to all list members for your helpful replies on this topic. From the emails I recieved it seems that the first thing I should try is replacing the PMU. Does anyone have a source for these? I've seen them online in the past for $20US, but I can't find

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2003-11-06 Thread Bob
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Re: Dead Wallstreet

2003-11-06 Thread Andrew
Thanks to all list members for your helpful replies on this topic. From the emails I recieved it seems that the first thing I should try is replacing the PMU. Does anyone have a source for these? I've seen them online in the past for $20US, but I can't find any at the moment. Until this is fixed,

Re: Dead wallstreet

2003-11-06 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 05/11/2003 21:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >My wallstreet won't power up properly. As soon as it gets power the fan and >power light come on, but it is unresponsive except to the reset keystroke >(cmd,shift,function,power) which turns the light and fan off. > >Does anyb

Dead wallstreet

2003-11-05 Thread Andrew
My wallstreet won't power up properly. As soon as it gets power the fan and power light come on, but it is unresponsive except to the reset keystroke (cmd,shift,function,power) which turns the light and fan off. Does anybody have any idea which component is most likely malfunctioning? -- G-Boo

Re: dead WallStreet

2003-09-26 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 26/09/2003 16:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >When I want to start my Wallstreet, all I hear is this fan, it's really >loud, and I can't hear the HD spinning up. The only way to shut it down is >to turn it off as if I were zapping the PRAM, but if I do that again, the >sam

dead WallStreet

2003-09-26 Thread JP Kaytrosh
When I want to start my Wallstreet, all I hear is this fan, it's really loud, and I can't hear the HD spinning up. The only way to shut it down is to turn it off as if I were zapping the PRAM, but if I do that again, the same thing happens. Also, the machine appears to be in sleep when it has been

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2003-09-14 Thread Clark Martin
At 5:33 PM -0700 9/12/03, Paul Nicholson wrote: On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 09:43 AM, Byron Gardner wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:48 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you go to xlr8yourmac and look up Toshiba and IBM hard drives for Wallstreet you can get links to the modding info

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2003-09-12 Thread Paul Nicholson
On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 09:43 AM, Byron Gardner wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:48 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you go to xlr8yourmac and look up Toshiba and IBM hard drives for Wallstreet you can get links to the modding info you need to fix this problem. Basically you are

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2003-09-12 Thread Byron Gardner
on 9/10/03 10:35 AM, Ken at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My Reply follows quote. On 10/09/2003 08:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >> On Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:48 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have an old Wallstreet that I >>> tricked out a while ago

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2003-09-12 Thread Byron Gardner
Mine does this too. I remove whatever module is in the right bay, leave a battery in the left bay and then press the startup button. It boots as normal and then I re-insert the right bay module back in and it works fine. Beats me but it works. Even weirder, it doesn't matter what is in the right b

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2003-09-10 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 10/09/2003 16:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >On Wednesday 10 September 2003 08:35 am, Ken wrote: > >> Hmmm. When I had my Wallstreet stripped to its bones, I could have sworn >> that the magnetic reed switch was located on the left side of the case >> while the HD is loca

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2003-09-10 Thread Michelle Klein-Hass
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 08:35 am, Ken wrote: > Hmmm. When I had my Wallstreet stripped to its bones, I could have sworn > that the magnetic reed switch was located on the left side of the case > while the HD is located on the right side of the case. A VERY powerful > magnet? I have never s

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2003-09-10 Thread Robert Benjamin Johnston
On 9/10/03 10:02 AM, "Michelle Klein-Hass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:48 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have an old Wallstreet that I >> tricked out a while ago, 466 Newertech processor, 512 RAM memory, and it's >> run

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2003-09-10 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 10/09/2003 08:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >On Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:48 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have an old Wallstreet that I >> tricked out a while ago, 466 Newertech processor, 512 RAM memory, and it's >> run l

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2003-09-10 Thread Michelle Klein-Hass
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:48 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have an old Wallstreet that I > tricked out a while ago, 466 Newertech processor, 512 RAM memory, and it's > run like a beast without much hassle. Recently my 12G hardrive that I had > dro

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2003-09-10 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 10/09/2003 00:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have an old Wallstreet that I >tricked out a while ago, 466 Newertech processor, 512 RAM memory, and >it's run like a beast without much hassle. Recently my 12G hardrive that >I

Dead Wallstreet

2003-09-10 Thread rbenjohnston1
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have an old Wallstreet that I tricked out a while ago, 466 Newertech processor, 512 RAM memory, and it's run like a beast without much hassle. Recently my 12G hardrive that I had dropped in when I upgraded my Pismo started to make some clicking sounds