Help with 5300 upgrade

2003-02-01 Thread John Cate
I've never tried any upgrades on a Mac laptop before and have run into a snag with this one... It's a PB 5300c, which I opened up and upgraded with a new 6 GB hard drive and a LapisColor video card, and at the same time swapped out the RAM expansion card to increase the memory from 24 MB to 40

Re: Help with 5300 upgrade

2003-02-01 Thread Donn Haven Lathrop
It starts to boot and then gives the bomb icon and a bus error, and it does it repeatedly Is the CD-ROM terminated? For some reason, 5300's seem to be deep into SCSI voodoo. Mine (2 of them) won't mount the CD (Apple 300 external CD-ROM drive) unless it's terminated, or if there's an external

Another wireless question.

2003-02-01 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Sorry to dig over old ground but I just wondered if anyone was in the same position as myself. I have a G4 Power Mac connected by ethernet to a Netgear DG814 ADSL Router with 4 port ethernet hub built-in. All works great. I also have a 3400c which I'd like to get on the network/access the

Re: 1400- battery rebuild

2003-02-01 Thread Brian
I just rebuilt one using cells from DigiKey.com, part: P018T-ND 4/3A Nickel Metal Hydride. The case comes apart easily with some careful prying and pulling then it's a matter of pulling the connections off the cells with fine-nosed pliers, and soldering the new cells in place. Pay careful

Re: Help with 5300 upgrade

2003-02-01 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
on 01/02/03 11:54, Donn Haven Lathrop at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you holding down the 'c' key to force it to boot from the CD? Is it a bootable CD? Does that work on an external CD ? Even if it isn't bootable you shouldn't get a crash. Best wishes Malcolm Cornelius - The Powerbook

Re: 1400- battery rebuild

2003-02-01 Thread R Farrington
http://www.smartdisk.com/WinterBlowoutPricing.htm VST Battery for the 1400 for $50. Or get the battery charger, yoyo ac adapter and battery for $90 Rob On 1/31/03 12:28 PM, victoria brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: on 1/30/03 8:58 PM, aly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! Questions

Re: Help with 5300 upgrade

2003-02-01 Thread Donn Haven Lathrop
Does that work on an external CD ? Yes. And on two different 5300's. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low

Re: Help with 5300 upgrade

2003-02-01 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
on 01/02/03 13:08, Donn Haven Lathrop at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does that work on an external CD ? Yes. And on two different 5300's. Didn't realise that, thought that only worked on internal CDs, - saves me some finger stretching ! Best wishes Malcolm Cornelius - The Powerbook Fanatic

Battery Recondition question

2003-02-01 Thread Dana Collins
Greetings all, I have a question re: the following recondition question: I have a Duo 280c, with a spare Type III NiMH Duo battery that I would like to recondition in the hopes that it will improve it's recharge performance. I'm using the old Apple Battery Recondition utility, v. 1.1 as find at

Re: Help with 5300 upgrade

2003-02-01 Thread Donn Haven Lathrop
and that drive should be internally terminated and plugged for SCSI ID 3. Why, pray, should it have to be SCSI ID 3? Just curious. Mine was at 2 when I bought it, and it's given me more headaches than all the frat parties in college. Set it to 3, and it works just fine. Any particular

Re: PBG3,Charging Problem

2003-02-01 Thread victoria brandon
Among other battery symptoms plaguing his G3, John Brownsberger said: After unplugging the PB with the power adapter, the time and date went back to 1973. Doesn't that sound like a bad PRAM battery to anyone else? It sure does to me. Best, Victoria -- Whenever you find yourself on the side of

Re: PBG3,Charging Problem

2003-02-01 Thread John Brownsberger
Drew, I just found this Apple Knowledge Base Info for everything you may want to know about the PowerbookG3, batteries, etc. Also do try Battery Reset 2.0 as a download from Apple. Note especially the article on the link below about PBG3 battery adjustment.

OLD TOPIC powerbook 100 battery.

2003-02-01 Thread Aaron
i just bought a lind external said to boot a 100 for sale and it will arr. soon. if that rejouv info is needed i will not hesitate to ask:). thank you very much Aaron -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win

Re: OLD TOPIC powerbook 100 battery.

2003-02-01 Thread Brian
i just bought a lind external said to boot a 100 for sale and it will arr. soon. if that rejouv info is needed i will not hesitate to ask:). thank you very much Aaron I can't find the reference to the Lind innards that I know I saved, but it was on either the pb100 web site (in the .nl domain) or

Re: Help with 5300 upgrade

2003-02-01 Thread centurytel
on 2/1/03 2:20 AM, John Cate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never tried any upgrades on a Mac laptop before and have run into a snag with this one... It's a PB 5300c, which I opened up and upgraded with a new 6 GB hard drive and a LapisColor video card, and at the same time swapped out

Re: PBG3,Charging Problem

2003-02-01 Thread John Brownsberger
I research this at Apple Knowledge Base and I think you are right! Thanks for writing, John on 2/1/03 5:40 PM, victoria brandon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Among other battery symptoms plaguing his G3, John Brownsberger said: After unplugging the PB with the power adapter, the time and date

Re: Battery Recondition question

2003-02-01 Thread John Smith
Hello, I'm using Battery Recondition 1.5 in OS 8.6, but I imagine the two versions would perform in much the same way. When I click ok to go ahead with reconditioning, the screen turns white with an icon of the battery reconditioner popping up randomly around the screen. The Hard drive doesn't