Re: Pismo Problems, Continued...

2004-12-21 Thread Mikael Byström
Laurent Daudelin said: is a common problem with the G3 PowerBooks. It's common with the machines that do not have effective cooling. Cooling paste is my advice and/or adding a custommade circular COPPER plate on top of the CPU, if there is any room. You can measure exact thickness with model

Pismo Problems, Continued...

2004-12-17 Thread Dyna
Thanks to everyone who suggested fixes for my near dead Pismo. The hard drive was indeed bad, and I replaced it with a new 40 gig Hitachi and added 256 megs of RAM while I was in there to up the total RAM to 384 megs. Despite all this new hardware the Pismo often needed repeated reboots to

Re: Pismo Problems, Continued...

2004-12-17 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 31/12/69 19:34, Dyna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to everyone who suggested fixes for my near dead Pismo. The hard drive was indeed bad, and I replaced it with a new 40 gig Hitachi and added 256 megs of RAM while I was in there to up the total RAM to 384 megs. Despite all this new

Re: Pismo Problems, Continued...

2004-12-17 Thread Dyna
On Friday, December 17, 2004, at 11:18 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: I don't think that this symptom is a common problem with the G3 PowerBooks. I used a Wallstreet for about 6 months, then a Pismo for about a year and never had any unexpected freeze, never, ever. Your problem might still be with

Re: Pismo Problems, Continued...

2004-12-17 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 17/12/04 12:46, Dyna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, December 17, 2004, at 11:18 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: I don't think that this symptom is a common problem with the G3 PowerBooks. I used a Wallstreet for about 6 months, then a Pismo for about a year and never had any

Re: Pismo Problems, Continued...

2004-12-17 Thread Peter Stein
Dyna, It seems like deja-vu to me while I read your post. I had a Pismo 500mhz that exhibited the same symptoms (and more) as yours. It would be my suggestion to: Remove your processor daughtercard and take a very good look at the large chip on the UNDERSIDE of the daughtercard. Mine was