Re: 5300 Screen Problem

2002-04-09 Thread Don Silver
I can only speak from my experience with the 500 series, but my 540 has done this before--all kinds of crazy patterns started showed on the monitor. The problem was the video ribbon being loose at the connection to the monitor. Pressing gently on the monitor housing at the spot above the

Re: Dead 5300

2002-04-09 Thread Sionnach Aisling
--- Macluver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just recently got a 5300. It's worked perfectly until now. I bought a 32MB RAM card and proceded to install it. After that it wouldn't boot. So I took it out and tried without the card thinking it may be bad. Still nothing. I reconnected the keyboard

Re: Ethernet card brands?

2002-04-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
Jim Arnott wrote: I use OSITech Jack of Diamonds cards. By far and away the absolute best, let me repeat, BEST support that I've ever gotten. (Story: Got a pair of used cards. E-mailed their tech support people regarding driver availability. Got a return e-mail ten minutes later with the

Re: 5300 Screen Problem

2002-04-09 Thread Ian Fox
I had to replace the logic board :( This actually happened after about 3 months to the board I had only just recently replaced. I wasn't too pleased as you could imagine, and the dealer here said 'cop it sweet mate. I'll sell you a new one' (about AU$600). I said not likely, and phoned apple

Re: Where to get Virtual PC?

2002-04-09 Thread Judy Perry
Oh, and you may need to additionally d/l a fix for it if you are running OS9. Won't run without it. Judy On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Spencer Carter wrote: I'm interesting in buying a copy of Virtual PC 2.x for use on my Powerbook 1400 G3 450 and I need at least Windows 95 with it. Does anyone

Re: Ethernet card brands

2002-04-09 Thread Jeff Hubatka
Anyone know about some of the cardbus types, that will let you run 10/100 for a Wallstreet? -- JSH From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PowerBooks) Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 15:30:27 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PowerBooks) Subject: PowerBooks Digest #804 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cliff Rediger)

Re: Ethernet card brands

2002-04-09 Thread Remy Davison
Anyone know about some of the cardbus types, that will let you run 10/100 for a Wallstreet? MacSense make both 16 and 32-bit 10/100 cards. The 16-bit ones will also run on 5300, 1400 (non-CardBus) PBs. Cheers, RD Remy Davison Contributing Editor and News Editor, Insanely-Great Mac

PowerBook batteries...

2002-04-09 Thread Andrew Kershaw
Hi all, A quick question... Will NiMH and Li-ion batteries that shipped w/ the 3400 and Kanga G3, respectively, work with a 5300? I know 5300 NiMH batteries are forward compatible with these machines but I don't know if their batteries will work in a 5300... I'm mostly interested in a