H wrote:
As I was about to do a clean install, the screen went
on the fritz again. So I hooked it up to an external
monitor -- working fine. No problems at all. We took
apart the 3400 that has been having intermittent
display problems and checked the display cable
carefully (doesn't appear to
That sounds like a cable problem. It's a pain, but can you remove the
top plastics to see whether the video cable is firmly seated?
Gary
H wrote:
Help! I was merrily surfing along this evening and
suddenly, my display just faded right out to white. I
immediately restarted the machine, and it
Ben:
I had 9.1 running on the machine with the Airport drivers installed via
TomeViewer before I went to 9.2.2. It was fine at that point and didn't
hang when shutting down. I think (but I'm not sure because I don't have
the machine booted up right now) that I have Time Server set to
Googling the part number yielded this web site:
http://www.rapid-tech.com/products/apple.htm
It's listed at a 2.5 ATA/IDE drive.
Gary
The Calypso Organization wrote:
We have just aquired an Apple drive. 750mb.Part Number 655-0432.
Can anyone tell me how to find out whether its a SCSI or an
I've always had success by holding down the shift key and then emptying
the trash. Have you tried that?
Gary
macnifico wrote:
Hi!
It finally happened to me.
After years of using Macs, I finally got the Rescued Items from Hard
Disk folder that can't be erased
It always gives a window with
the 520c is a fine, functional laptop. imho.
Gary
Sandra Coolsen wrote:
can anyone tell me if a powerbook 520c is a good laptop? or should i
add more stuff to my 145?
thanks
billy
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Gerald:
I had a similar problem a while back. Doing a reset (using the button on
the back) fixed it... and of course, I was hooked up then to the AC adapter.
Gary
Gerald R. Homeyer wrote:
Just a simpleminded question for all you 3400 experts. After a moderate
period of nonuse (3 mo.) I tried
Check out: http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Cardbus/Cardbus.html
I use a SilverLan card in my noncardbus 3400 with no problems.
Gary
D. Wakefield (DTP etc!) wrote:
Could I have someone clear the fog, once and for all, which surrounds Cardbus and 3400's. I have read about the $100+ cage upgrade (which
Chuck:
VST can be found at http://www.smartdisk.com.
I found lots of links on Google when I searched for VST ibook charger. I
haven't found the manual yet, but I know it's around here somewhere. ;-)
Try charging one battery first. Did it have the iBook adapter with it?
Mine came with an
Yeah, you're right--forgot about AOL doing that.
Gary
Andrew Kershaw wrote:
http://www.mug.jhmi.edu/mirrors/InfoAlley/0397/20/cfm.html
According to this, Apple recommendes disabling it.
Or you could upgrade to 7.6.1 (or just download CFM-68k Runtime Enabler
3.1(?)). 7.6.1 has a new version
Does ASP tell you what kind of interface the box has? Atapi or whatever?
Gary
Eric L. Strobel wrote:
on 07/28/03 2:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The manufacturer is Acer. Just checked @ Geeks the only driver they have
doesn't give any info about what it supports...
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Stuffit does decompress them. I still have some old dd and ad word
processing files on one of my drives.
Gary
I believe StuffIt still will decompress DD AD compressed files, but I'm
not sure. Nowadays, it probably makes sense to just use StuffIt, but I
suppose if you're using an old enough
I've got the drive, and I don't think I've ever seen the light on. It
draws power from the bus, if I recall. I just plug in the card and fire
up my Pismo. And when I shut down, I just shut down and unplug it.
Gary
K wrote:
Clear instructions needed please,
I have just purchased an empty
If I recall, there's a program called 911 or something like that that
disables that warning and allows it to run.
Gary
OK guys, thanks for the success stories.
I have a greyscale serial quickcam that the imaging chip is damaged (I
blasted it with too much light using it on a microscope, be
Brian McEwen wrote:
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Subject: Re: quickcam and powerbooks
I'd like that too, if that's ok...:)
I don't know what's up with this, the 2.1.2 and 2.1.3 installers both
refuse to run on my 9.1
I run it from an external firewire drive on my Pismo. I have 1gb of ram,
though.
Gary
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I have a G3 Pismo, running Mac OS9.2.
Any problems running OS X on this machine?
Dave
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This happens to my scanner all the time. The problem is that the power
is probably on all the time and you have the scanner hooked up to a
power hub (which is also on). If you turn the computer and the scanner
off (which you can do only by unplugging the scanner--both USB and
power) and then
Tom:
I never could get the Orinoco driver to work. I have an Airport base
station; so it was just easier.
Gary
Tom Roth wrote:
Gary,
What kind of benefits/advantages are there using the Airport Software over the Orinoco? BTW, I'm using a Netgear MR814 wireless router, not an Apple Airport.
The Orinoco/Lucent driver ought to work. I just never could get it to work.
Eric L. Strobel wrote:
And for those of us using 8.6???
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Yes.
But the connection should be there. I mean, don't you just plug the
wireless access point into your current router and then go to one of the
other machines on the network and access the WAP from there to configure it?
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Usually, that's the result of the connector cable being cripped or not
making good contact.
Pull the top plastics and check the cable.
Gart
François Gagnon wrote:
Hello,
I've got a problem with the screen of my PB 170 : One pixel on Eight
(1/8), I see a big black vertical line...like this :
|
I suppose it *could* be, but check the cable itself. Are there any
crimps in any of the lines--the internal wires?
Sometimes the connector partially disconnects when the book opens and
closes, flexing it. If the cable gets pinched between the pastics that
can disrupt the video signal.
Gary
Great!
You're welcome.
Gary
François Gagnon wrote:
I've fixed the problem...
I opened the main box(the bottom) and cleaned and placed the connector and
everything was correct...what I tried before is just to check the part of the
cable that was near of the screen.
Thank you for your help...
Since VPC shares your network connection, you'd have to have the
connection first, if I understand what you're saying.
Actually, I just recalled an article I had a URL for (appropriately buried,
of course)...
http://www.penmachine.com/techie/airport1400.html
FWIW, this seems to provide a pretty
I used Plusmaker years ago when I went to OS 8.5 and HFS+ on my PM 6500.
It worked great. It took a while, but it worked. I set the file size to
.5k and freed up half of the 10gb hd.
gary
jimwg wrote:
Greetings!
Thanks the too many to name who mailed help for my previous problem!
I've a
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Deluxe Music Construction set was an old program that ran on 512k Macs.
Gary
Tom Wilkinson wrote:
My daughter has a 68K Powerbook 520c and I am looking for a song
writing/recording program. Is there anything that will do the task for her?
Thanks to anyone who can point me in the right
I've got a Travelstar 8e that I use with both my g3 powerbook and my
pb3400. It is bootable.
Ken Norris (dialup) wrote:
Hi List,
I did a Google search on TravelStar 8E and 10E. The results were that the
tech specs on these external card slot drives show that they are not
comptible with
Most common problem --sounds like what you're describing--is the
processor is not seated properly.
There's another thread right now about the same type of problem.
Gary
Gerald R.Homeyer wrote:
Hi everyone.
Bit of a problem with my 3400c. I tried upgrading the HD and managed to get
it in
I wouldn't say it's tricky--it's slightly difficult--and that's only
in popping the plastics.
You might check out this site--it's what I went by when I installed mine:
http://home.earthlink.net/~richardinsd/Supersizeyour3400.html
Charles Siegel wrote:
I was thinking of putting a left over
From xlr8yourmac.com
(I've done it--works great--I even installed 9.2.2 on mine--then the
Airport update installs.
Gary
As before, all I did was extract the Airport extension, the control
strip module, and the Airport PC Card extension from the installer file
using Tomeviewer. I threw them
Check this page:
http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Cardbus/Cardbus.html
Tom Lisa P wrote:
Does anyone here know the procedure for getting a PB3400 Cardbus
enabled ? I always ignored al lthe cardbus/3400 posts, but now that
I actually have a working 3400 I regret my oversights...
thanks,
I've got a cardbus 8gb hard drive (IBM) that I bought to back up
graphics on CD at work for my Pismo. For fun I put OS 9.1 on it and it's
bootable on the PB3400.
Gary
Thanks, just what I was looking for. I remembered the hardware mod
for the 2400, but I guess only SW is needed to
Victoria--
There was some kind of hack to install 9.2 on non-G3s. I think OWC had
it in their online software section. Otherwise, the installer will say
you can't install in on that machine.
G
victoria.duggan wrote:
Hi quick question can 9.2 .1 be loaded on a 3400 Power book as it runs very
like that.
G
John Webb wrote:
Hi All.
Sorry for being a little thick on the terminology, but what does OMC
stand for? I would love to go to their site and download that hack.
Cheers,
John :-)
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Try this URL: http://www.os9forever.com/os92x.html
Gary
John Webb wrote:
Hi All.
Sorry for being a little thick on the terminology, but what does OMC
stand for? I would love to go to their site and download that hack.
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Cliff:
I've got one I use at work to back up CDs on. I've got OS 9 on my PB
3400, and the drive works fine and will boot the machine. I don't know
about 8.6. Of course, I have 144mb RAM in my PB 3400, which makes a
difference in running 9.
Have you tried using Drive Setup? That's what I did.
When you reset the Power Manager, did you remove the battery and unplug
the A/C?
Gary
Gary E Davis wrote:
Hi Victoria
I've done both yet it still shows a solid Sleep light
Gary
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techworks?
G
Midgar-Survivor wrote:
Where can I get some ram for this unit on the cheap?
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MPW:
http://developer.apple.com/tools/mpw-tools/
Gary
(Heck, I'm not exactly a novice, and MPW is
still beyond me). The last time I looked, I couldn't find MPW on the
ADC website, but you might have better luck - I wasn't looking too
hard. ;-)
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PB 3400s are not G3s, so they cannot run beyond 9.1. It runs fine on
mine w/ 144mb RAM.
I'm pretty sure a USB/PCMCIA card will work fine as well as a
Firewire2Go card. After I got my 3400 I read a lot of info on whether
the slot (top slot) was cardbus compliant. MCE offers a cardbus
Removing the trackpad is a snap. I upgraded the HD on my 3400 using
instructions on a web page. A Google search is how I found it.
Gary
Sionnach Aisling wrote:
If you've already upgraded the RAM, then changing the
HDD isn't that much more complicated. About the
hardest thing you'll have to do
What that clack sound is (I think) is the hard drive cycling. You
might look at installing APM Tuner (Apple Power Manager Tuner) which
allows you to set the period sleep of the drive.
Gary
URL:
http://www01.u-page.so-net.ne.jp/gb3/eijim/index-E.html
Mehdi El Gueddari wrote:
Hi,
My brand
Try something like DiskWarrior or Norton and Optimize the drive. It
sounds like the drive is seeking.
Gary
It may be that. So, I've tried APM but unfortunately my hard drive is not
supported. Any other tips ?
Thamks,
Mehdi
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I don't think it's slower. I've got it on my 3400/200 with 144mb RAM. It
takes more RAM, if I recall, but it runs fine.
Gary
Adam wrote:
Thanks everyone for the advice, I think I'll stick to 8.6, I don't think I
could cope with 9.1 if it's going to be slower.
Adam.
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My AP Scanner works fine in 9.2.2 on my Pismo. Maybe you're getting
corrupted files. Thanks for the link to your file.
gary
Andrew Kershaw wrote:
Hey guys,
I took a couple days and put together a new app for use with AirPort
under OS 8 and 9. Actually, what happened was that I found my copy
Thomas:
My Pismo freezes if I put my CompactFlash Card in after it's started
up 9.2.2. I always put the card in and then start up and it shows up.
Do you have File Exchange enabled? Since the card is probably PC
formatted, that would be necessary, I think.
Gary
Thomas G. Tamura
Bruce:
I finally checked the extensions out--they're the very same drivers
available from the Prolific site. The first time I looked at them, I
just hit option-I, and they showed up as USB SDK 1.1. This time I
actually tried to put them in my system folder and was notified that
there was
For more information: http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Cardbus/Cardbus.html
Gary
David Deckert wrote:
I thought the issue wasn't whether the 3400 was Cardbus compliant or
not. (Inherently, I belive that it is) I thought the issue was that
the card cage used in the 3400 won't accept the cardbus
Does anyone else remember DeskPaint and DeskDraw. Back around '95
give or take a couple of years there were ads in the Mac mags
sellling the pair of them for $29. I think they came with Drawing
on the Macintosh as well. No real relevance. Bruce's excellent
discussion of the options just
You say it doesn't start up at all. Is this on A/C or battery? Does it
make the startup chime? Have you reset the Power Manager?
The first thing I would do is reset the Power Manager. Unplug it from
A/C, pull the battery, and depress the small reset button right beside the
ethernet board in
Anne:
I don't have a clue. My 3400 sits around a lot and last time I started
it up I got nothing. I did the Power Manager reset and then I think I
zapped the PRAM on startup and it came back to life.
Zapping PRAM is done on startup by holding down the Option-Apple and P
and R keys at
The batteries are supposed to be interchangeable. I have a pb 3400 and picked
up two batteries from megamacs.com for $30.
victoria wrote:
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Hi all i have a question for anyone who knows.
My 3400c has a li-ion battery lasts for about 1hr 45mins more if i have the
colours off on screen.
John:
I went ahead and tried to download the driver, and nothing happened; so that one's
dead, Jim.
Gary
John Kamimura wrote:
I recently purchased a used 1400c running 8.1 not knowing it had an upgraded
processor (Vimage g3/233). I wiped the drive and installed 9.1. I checked Apple
I did a Google search for Vimage driver pb1400 and got this link:
http://asia.cnet.com/downloads/mac/swinfo/0,39001908,20066781s,00.htm
John Kamimura wrote:
I recently purchased a used 1400c running 8.1 not knowing it had an upgraded
processor (Vimage g3/233). I wiped the drive and installed
It's dead, Jim.
Paul Nelson wrote:
At 7:19 PM -0700 8/14/02, John Kamimura wrote:
I recently purchased a used 1400c running 8.1 not knowing it had an
upgraded processor (Vimage g3/233). I wiped the drive and installed 9.1. I
checked Apple System Profiler and noticed the odd processor rating
MacFixit archives revealed this tidbit:
XLR8 MACh Speed G3 Control 1.3.2 fixesVimage, Newer, and Sonnet cards conflicts
with Mac OS 8.6. It has been tested
and is compatible with boards from XLR8, NewerTech, Sonnet,
Mactell, Vimage, and PowerLogix. It's free for XLR8
.
One or two questions:
Can you use the PCMCIA card/adapter cable with another
drive? If so, does the original drive accept a cable
that enables it being used inside a desktop?
Thx
George
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George:
Yep. Had one for several months. I used
George:
Yep. Had one for several months. I used it primarily with my Pismo,
but it works (and boots) on my PB 3400.
Gary
George Mogiljansky wrote:
Hello,
Anyone using this? I have a 3400 with 16 bit PC card
slots.
Thx
George
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Well, it's not the fastest horse in the stable, but it chugs along pretty
well. I've got a Lucent Silverlan Turbo card and connected to cable modem, it
works well.
Walrus Webtech wrote:
Thanks for the reply. How is it speed wise?
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I've got 9.1 on my 3400/200 with 144 megs of RAM. It is stable.
Gary
Walrus Webtech wrote:
This all sounds great, but how well would 9.1 work on a stock 3400/180 with
144 megs of ram?
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I read the other posts in response before reading this. I read backwards
to see if someone answers a question before I read the question! ;-)
I have a PB 3400 with a Lucent SilverLan Turbo. It works fine with Airport
drivers. I tried IOXperts' driver and the card showed up but would not
connect.
I use Opera, keeping Netscape open when I find a page that won't work. I
refuse to use Internet Exploder.
;-) just my humble opinion.
Gary
hope and the anchor wrote:
you can also try using another browser like opera or mozilla...I haven't
used their mac versions but I know their windows
Yes, it does. Currently in the newer powerbooks, you have essentially two
speeds--4200 rpm and 5400 rpm. Obviously, a faster drive will access files
more quickly. A larger drive if it's fragmented badly may take longer to
access a file.
I'm sure Remy of Insanely-great-mac.com has some
Tom:
I've got the Lucent connecting to my Airport 2 Base Station. The reason I went with
the more-expensive alternative is that the ABS will do Appletalkmy Pismo and my son's
dual-USB iBook have Airport cards. I've heard/read reports that SMC's wireless will
also do Appletalk, but I have
George:
Not much more to say. I bought the machine on Ebay and when it arrive,
it had 8.6 installed. It acted really quirky, freezing periodically for no
apparent reason. I finally nailed it down to a bad RAM module (32mb),
which Techworks replaced for free. At the time, RAM had dropped; so
I think it's probably a machine gestatlt ID problem. The installer looks
for the iMac and doesn't find it.
I've got an original generic OS 9 CD I bought at CompUSA and it installed
fine on my PB3400.
G
Sionnach Aisling wrote:
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I set the
H. The 'book takes 45 watts. That was a good question George asked, but I
wonder if it's relevant, given that you are plugging in your AC charger/power
module to the 110 adapter. 75 watts would be ample to supply the adapter.
Any electrical engineers or savants want to enlighten us more?
Here's what Apple Kbase article says:
If you forget your password, you cannot bypass the hard drive by booting the
PowerBook with
extensions off. The password is written to the hard
drive on the driver partition. You should take your
PowerBook,
I read that you could start from a CD and reformat the drive. I like your
solution for remembering the password. ;-)
Gary
peg wrote:
Thanks for the links. These are text files that open fine if dropped
onto BBEdit. No solution to the password problem, though. I wouldn't
even mind
Old MacWrite? Writenow 3? Both worked well with minimal RAM.
Gary
James Reilly Andreassi wrote:
I've got a PB 170 running System 7.5.3. I picked it up for $10 because I
thought it would make a good system for use for typing up papers and the
like. My problems is that I have no idea what
They have 30gb drives for $117!
Gary
OWC has the 20GB IBM fluid bearings model on for $80, which seems a super
price. 2-year IBM warranty. It's listed under Clearance.
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This link takes you directly to the ftp site for downloading.
Gary
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Hi, does anyone know if Eudora ever produced a version
for non power PC Macs? Or does anyone know of software
that will operate as a calendar and email program
My Wavlan Silver works great on my 3400, running OS 9and it's using Airport
software.
Gary
A. L. Kershaw wrote:
The Wavelan silver works like a charm. It won't work with the Apple
Airport software, but the Lucent/Orinoco/Agere supplied drivers for
PowerPC 16bit/NuBus machines work just
Andrew:
Is the PCMCIA slot in the 3400 32-bit? I was under the impression it was
not.
Gary
Andrew Kershaw wrote:
No doubt. That's because the 3400 has 32bit capable PC card slots and a
PCI architecture. The 5300 (which we are talking about - hence the
subject header) does not.
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Gary
Clark Martin wrote:
I think it was here that someone posted a message about a vendor
selling PB5300 batteries for a rather low price. I had thought I
kept it but cannot find it. Does anyone know the URL. Or does
anyone know a place for cheap
I was wrong. Megamacs doesn't have that battery. They do have batteries (new) for 1400
for $70.
Gary
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Wrong again. I scrolled down and they have them for $30
http://www.megamacs.com/v1/?action=viewpid=278401criteria=battery
Gary D. Adams wrote:
I was wrong. Megamacs doesn't have that battery. They do have batteries (new) for
1400 for $70.
Gary
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Brian Gross made Airport Scanner. It uses an Applescript to check Airport
signal strength. Not sure that's what you want.
http://homepage.mac.com/typexi/Personal1.html
It's CharityWare.
Gary
chamaras wrote:
hey there all anybody out there know where and if there is a program that
will test
Donna:
I'm running 9.1 on the 3400.
Gary
Donna Hood Pointer wrote:
What Mac OS are you running on that 3400 where this worked like a charm?
Donna Pointer-- iMac, ergo iAm
What you have to do is use Tomeview to extract the Airport Extensions and the
Airport app. Drop them on the
the point was to increase the speed of file sharing startup. i think.
gary
Donna Hood Pointer wrote:
I may have missed a post. Just what does this do and why would you want to
do it?
Donna Pointer-- iMac, ergo iAm
There is a utility somewhere that lets you adjust
the max processor
http://www.mac512.com/pwrshare.bin
didn't download it, but that's where it is.
Gary
Atelier Design wrote:
The utility described is called Powershare (by Sanford Communications),
and it allows you to control the amount of memory allocated to file-
sharing, using a simple virtual slider
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