Re: pb car adapter

2002-05-31 Thread Clark Martin
At 5:07 PM -0700 5/30/02, George Mogiljansky wrote: >Hi Clark et al, >Ok, so we can use the pb in a car or other situation >with an inverter plugged into the 12v DC outlet. And >the inverter has to supply a minumum of 50 Watts per >hour (or other time measure) in order to use the CD, >floppy drive

Re: Need help with Newer g3 233 Mhz card for 1400

2002-05-31 Thread Gary E Davis
Thanks Paul I'll do that ASAP. Also it seems like the initial boot is longer now, have I set it up wrong? Gary -Original Message- From: PowerBooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Nelson Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 11:33 PM To: PowerBooks Subject: Re: Need help with Newer g3

Re: Subject: Re: Help with 5300cs hard drive

2002-05-31 Thread Arne Christiansen
Hi, I used the same harddrive in my 5300 and it works. Try using a floppy tools disk to intialize the drive. Arne -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras sta

Re: pb car adapter

2002-05-31 Thread Scott Mugan
The older Powerbooks I know used what was called the Apple 45 Watt power supply. Older being anything below a Ti or newer iBook. -Scott on 5/30/02 7:29 PM, Clark Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] arranged electrons in the following style: > The smallest inverter I've seen is 50W and that is pretty mu

Re: Subject: Re: Help with 5300cs hard drive

2002-05-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
Paul Nelson wrote: > Of course a hard drive which was formatted for a PeeCee wouldn't > work in a Mac. I'd try some third party software like FWB, Anubis, LaCie, > etc. to format the drive. That shouldn't be necessary for an IDE drive. Only SCSI drives would need such third party softwa

Re: pb car adapter: inverter question

2002-05-31 Thread Bengt
> > Concur. Also, my PB145 supply is a switching supply. Perhaps the original > PB100 supply is a transformer unit, I've never operated on one of those... The PB100 also have a switching supply unit, I have one that I use some time Bengt Sweden -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

Re: Powerbook 500 Series PPC Upgrade Problem..

2002-05-31 Thread Dan K
I missed the beginning of this discussion, but just in case . . . . . . all the bits Mafia Duck needs are available on the web: http://eshop.macsales.com/Tech/FTP/newertech/NUpowrCache12.hqx or http://www.newertech.com/software/software/files/nupowr500.hqx and http://www.newertech.

Re: Subject: Re: Help with 5300cs hard drive

2002-05-31 Thread Tom Roth
> >I bought an IBM 6.4 GB HDD to install in my 5300cs 64 MB ram running OS8.6. > >We opened it up, installed the drive, with no problem. The problem came when > >we tried to start up. Started off the OS 8.6 CD with no problem, but the > >drive set up couldn't find the drive. > > Of course a

Re: Subject: Re: Help with 5300cs hard drive

2002-05-31 Thread Vicki
Hi did you say thatthe hdd is working in a pc. If so go into dos restart in dos and type fdisk it will then give you options select create/remove logical partition remove it then go bat to the options screen and erase disk info . Install it in the 5300 with a boot floppy in and boot up it should

Re: pb car adapter

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Nelson
At 12:26 AM -0400 5/31/02, Scott Mugan wrote: >The older Powerbooks I know used what was called the Apple 45 Watt power >supply. Older being anything below a Ti or newer iBook. Gee, and I've been calling those the "newer" ones! Paul -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

PB 520 Ram problem

2002-05-31 Thread rpadv
I'm trying to install a 32MB ram chip in a 520 Power Book. The machine has only had the factory 4MB installed before. We put in the 32MB and the 520 will not boot. Boots great without it. We put the 32mb chip in another 520 that originally had 12MB on it. The 32 works fine in the 2nd machine. Any

Re: PB 520 Ram problem

2002-05-31 Thread PeterH5322
In a message dated 5/31/02 10:34:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << The 32 works fine in the 2nd machine. Any idea what to do to make the one computer recognize the new chip? >> Not seated correctly, and, especially, the card retainer and heat sink combo not installed correctly. -- PowerBo