Re: PowerBool Kanga questions

2004-02-14 Thread KG
I would say it's welcome here. Yes, the Kanga is a G3, but like you said, it's basically a 3400 with a G3 added in, and it has little in common with the later G3 machines. It doesn't support OS X in any form, doesn't have OpenFirmware and doesn't support either USB or FireWire (at least not without

Re: 540c acting up

2004-02-14 Thread Bill Lockhart
On Feb 14, 2004, at 10:25 PM, Ric wrote: Can you access the HD when booted from the floppy? yes I could If so you should at least be able to do a backup at this point. how? If you have the whole system on floppys you could try reinstalling it. That shouldn't hurt the data. I tried doing that an

Re: 540c acting up

2004-02-14 Thread Bill Lockhart
thanks for the reply. that's exactly what I ended up doing. I found a cd of System 7.5 that had the disk images on it. So I copied them to my good ol Mac Classic and then made 8 install floppies. The 540c has been working fine ever since. The only bad part of this whole thing was that I lost all

Re: 540c acting up

2004-02-14 Thread Ric
Hi, Could possibly be poorly seated RAM, making an intermittant connection. RAM failure should give an 8 tone chime of death, 4 tones usually means a hardware failure. Can you access the HD when booted from the floppy? If so you should at least be able to do a backup at this point. If you have the

Re: PowerBook 1400 <-> 3400 HD switchin' question

2004-02-14 Thread KG
> Is it possible to simply put the 1400's HD in the 3400c, or are there OS > issues that won't allow it? Both the 1400 and 3400 use standard IDE notebook drives. I can't see why it wouldn't work, unless 7.6.x needed an enabler to run on the 3400c. Really, though, in my opinion the best thing you c

Re: 1400 RAM Question

2004-02-14 Thread Jeff Hubatka
On Feb 14, 2004, at 12:32 PM, PowerBooks wrote: Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:29:09 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 1400 RAM Question Without the cache enabled, the 1400 is surprisingly stable. I recently installed 9.2.2, which seems to have increased stability, but without that L2 cache

Re: wallstreet and USB

2004-02-14 Thread Jeff Hubatka
On Feb 13, 2004, at 10:50 AM, PowerBooks wrote: From: "Martin Schule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: wallstreet and USB Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:23:00 +0100 Hello, I have a wallsstreet powerbook 233 mhz, 160MB RAM, System 9.2.2. I would like to use my PCMCIA (Card Bus) Slot for USB and Wireless ne

Re: wallstreet and USB

2004-02-14 Thread Jeff Hubatka
On Feb 13, 2004, at 10:50 AM, PowerBooks wrote: From: "Martin Schule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: wallstreet and USB Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:23:00 +0100 Hello, I have a wallsstreet powerbook 233 mhz, 160MB RAM, System 9.2.2. I would like to use my PCMCIA (Card Bus) Slot for USB and Wireless ne

Re: 540c acting up

2004-02-14 Thread gf sciacca
> After supper I tapped the power on button and the 540c starts to boot > up then I get a black screen with a sad Mac and this code: > 000F, 0066. > It also made the "chimes of Death" sound. (four tones) The same symptom hit me a while ago, also messing around with a 540 off ebay. I was tr

Anyone using wireless USB print servers

2004-02-14 Thread Keith Parker
I just started looking into wireless print servers, and after an hour or so I realized this list might be a better way to find out. Has anyone found a good model ? Price is significant but not first priority. Preferably set-up through a browser. TIA Parkerdude ;-] __

Re: 540c acting up

2004-02-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Friday, February 13, 2004, at 09:31 PM, Bill Lockhart wrote: Hi, I'm new here and of course I have a problem. : / I just bought a used Powerbook 540c with 20 megs RAM and a 320 meg HD. Running System 7.5 After supper I tapped the power on button and the 540c starts to boot up then I get a

OT: ram compatability

2004-02-14 Thread Junior Hart
Does anyone know if 333MHZ DDR ram will work in a beige G3 233MHZ desktop or a 633MHZ windows machine? Thanks. I have already used pc60, pc100, and pc133 ram, altogether at the same time in my beige G3. It said on the ram package backward compatible to 266 MHZ desktop machine. Also on the back says

Re: Civilization Call to power

2004-02-14 Thread Ruffin Bailey
> I'm using a PB 1400c witha 233 mHz G3 Vimage processer in it. I just bought this > game for it, since I't s a favoite game form me on my PC, and i wanted to be able to > play it on the notebook while on the road. Here's the deal: Everything about the > requirements suggests that I should b

Re: PowerBook 1400 <-> 3400 HD switchin' question

2004-02-14 Thread VidaVerde
ALSO... the 3400c I have is the 180mhz; are the 200 and 240mhz THTA much faster..? We have a 240 and a 200. I use a lot of Filemaker (Server), simple photoshop stuff, dreamweaver, and various web browsers. I like the 240, it is a great machine, but the 200 is really a bit too slow, I get frustr