As for a CD drive for your PB, all I can tell you is I use a replaced cd
drive out of my mac, I replaced it with a cdrw, but I need to be able to
boot from cd so I hooked the old cd up to the unit via scsi cable with the
hdi-30 adapter. You can find a good Apple rommed cd all over on the lem swap
At 1:00 AM -0500 6/14/02, Bryan Walter wrote:
Hey All,
I have a PowerBook 170 with two batteries, both in what appears to be
working condition. Both of them charge in the external battery charger
and the PowerBook shows their battery levels within Mac OS. However, I
cannot get the PowerBook to
I think I'm sunk
I have a 3400 that won't turn on. I tried replacing the pram battery but
when I press the start key nothing happens no sound no screen no nothing.
pressing the reset button turns the sleep light on solid but nothing else.
Pressing the reset button again turns the sleep light off
This may not be relevant to whatever you're trying to do, but in case
anyone's interested,the 'not fitting' may be only a very minor problem, at
least it was in my experience.
I put a Belkin USB card in my daughter's 3400/200. 30 seconds on an edge of
the card with some fine sandpaper was the
Thanks, Bev. That is the same advice I got from the
author of the 2400 site (although the mfg. details for
that model are very different than for the 3400, and
how!).
By the way, ADStech.com and other card mfgers. state
that their cards will not work on G3 pbs from the
family M-3553. Does anyone
Actually it may be 4Megs that it needs...i have a boxed version around
somewhere I should look it up. I know it needs less than 8megs.
I'll buy that. I think it does boot up under 4. If you treated it like DOS
and just opened one thing at a time, you might be okay. That's what I find
Does anyone know where I can get specific instructions on upgrading the cpu
of a 280c to 603e? I have the parts. Looking for some help. Thanks.
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At 09:58 PM 6/14/2002 -0400, you wrote:
Does anyone know where I can get specific instructions on upgrading the cpu
of a 280c to 603e? I have the parts. Looking for some help. Thanks.
Just find one of the take apart manuals. You'll have to replace the entire
motherboard with a 2300c board, you
Can anyone recommend an inexpensive source for good quality duo PRAM
batteries. I need two for gift 280C's and am hoping not to spend much on
them.
Thanks for your time.
Chuck
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I'm new on here and I'm looking at some used PB1400's. Everything I've read
while reseaching says no USB connection can be made with a 1400. Is this
true? If not what about a Compact Flash card reader? I need something to
download images from a Digital Camera on the road. I don't want or
First of all, most Mac laptops will never support USB. However, there is
light at the end of your tunnel: get your hands on a Mac with a PC Card
slot. Namely, the 5300 series and the 1400 series, if i remember right,
have a PCMCIA slot.
The slots on these computers are not CardBus compatible,
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