Re: Wallstreet Woes -- Commiserators welcome

2003-12-11 Thread Wayne
I had similar problems in my former Wallstreet, especially when Sid mentions having to start-up several times to get it up and running. In my case, the culprit was the PMU card went bad (it is actually still bad, I went ahead and purchased a new iBook instead of fixing the Wallstreet). Another

Re: Wallstreet Woes -- Commiserators welcome

2003-12-11 Thread Kris Dunn
Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Wallstreet Woes -- Commiserators welcome Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:37:50 -0800 Try the old hard drive in the WallStreet. Perhaps there is a flaky incompatibility with the 60 GB drive. Try each SODIMM by itself, maybe one is flaky. Paul -- G-Books

Re: Wallstreet Woes -- Commiserators welcome

2003-12-10 Thread Eugene Lee
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:06:58PM -0600, Sid Barras wrote: : : I've been pleased as punch with my wallstreet -- until recently. I had it : about a year; added a super fast 60 gb hard drive, 512 mb RAM, was running : OS 10.2.6 successfully (albeit a bit slow) and then... : : Then, one day it

Re: Wallstreet Woes -- Commiserators welcome

2003-12-10 Thread Paul Nicholson
On Dec 9, 2003, at 9:06 PM, Sid Barras wrote: Then, one day it woke up and decided to function only occasionally. I started getting the flashing floppy with the question mark in the center instead of the happy mac (or the white apple of OS 10)... It is looking for a boot device and can't find

Re: Wallstreet Woes -- Commiserators welcome

2003-12-10 Thread Sid Barras
On Dec 9, 2003, at 9:06 PM, Sid Barras wrote: Then, one day it woke up and decided to function only occasionally. I started getting the flashing floppy with the question mark in the center instead of the happy mac (or the white apple of OS 10)... on 12/10/03 11:43 AM, Paul Nicholson at

Re: Wallstreet Woes -- Commiserators welcome

2003-12-10 Thread Paul Nicholson
Try the old hard drive in the WallStreet. Perhaps there is a flaky incompatibility with the 60 GB drive. Try each SODIMM by itself, maybe one is flaky. Paul On Dec 10, 2003, at 10:52 AM, Sid Barras wrote: On Dec 9, 2003, at 9:06 PM, Sid Barras wrote: Then, one day it woke up and decided to

Re: Wallstreet Woes -- Commiserators welcome

2003-12-10 Thread Matt Halter
. If anyone has experienced similar wallstreet woes, and has an answer, I'm all ears. Of if this situation sounds familiar maybe you have a suggestion. Thanks to all Sid -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives

Wallstreet Woes -- Commiserators welcome

2003-12-09 Thread Sid Barras
a day. I've gone back to using my pb 1400; but I'd like to use the wallstreet again someday, due to bigger screen, and especially, enough RAM to run photoshop. If anyone has experienced similar wallstreet woes, and has an answer, I'm all ears. Of if this situation sounds familiar maybe you have

Re: Wallstreet Woes

2003-08-26 Thread Clark Martin
At 6:06 PM -0400 8/25/03, Andrew Johnson wrote: On my Wallstreet 250, when I sometimes lift the unit using one hand on the corner near the battery bay, the unit will sometimes lose power, I imagine it has something to do with the contact between the battery and the connector being lost, but has

Wallstreet Woes

2003-08-25 Thread Andrew Johnson
On my Wallstreet 250, when I sometimes lift the unit using one hand on the corner near the battery bay, the unit will sometimes lose power, I imagine it has something to do with the contact between the battery and the connector being lost, but has anyone seen a problem like this before? any

Re: Wallstreet Woes

2003-08-25 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 25/08/03 18:06, Andrew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my Wallstreet 250, when I sometimes lift the unit using one hand on the corner near the battery bay, the unit will sometimes lose power, I imagine it has something to do with the contact between the battery and the connector being

Re: Wallstreet Woes

2003-07-28 Thread Paul Nicholson
At 10:33 PM -0400 7/26/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I figured something must be mis-seated, so i took the Wallstreet apart, and reseated everything, uncluding the processor. Now the Wallstreet does nothing. I'm stumped...any help would be greatly appreciated. Keep wiggling stuff until you

Re: Wallstreet Woes

2003-07-28 Thread P . F . Grenier
On Monday, Jul 28, 2003, at 15:25 US/Eastern, Paul Nicholson wrote: At 10:33 PM -0400 7/26/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I figured something must be mis-seated, so i took the Wallstreet apart, and reseated everything, uncluding the processor. Now the Wallstreet does nothing. I'm stumped...any

Wallstreet Woes

2003-07-26 Thread LINUXorred
Hello All, I have a Powerbook Wallstreet 266 that had a bad power board connector (small board with audio and power connectors on it.) I attempted to resolder the power board connector with one pulled from a Duo 230...worked worse than i had expected. The board smoked. So after bidding