Hi, I'm new to elementary sound recording with Macs. I'm hoping to find an
external CD-RW drive to work with a 2400c PB (or 1400c). It will have to be
SCSI, since I have no port upgrades. Are there specs I should look out for,
brands I should avoid? I will be using the drive to copy
I opened it and checked for arcing and sure enough, the connecter is
coming loose. If I wiggle it I can see arcing. Now that I know what's
wrong with it I'm not as afraid to use it. Thanks!
-Kevin
You should fix it, rather than keep on using it that way. Power supplies
generally tolerate
The AC adapter for my PowerBook 520c is acting funny. I have to turn
the brick upside down and set something on the end where the cord
plugs in to, or it starts to make a buzzing/sparking noise and it
starts to smell sort of like gunpowder. I know I need to replace it
but I was wondering what's
How much of a hack is it for the 2400c? Can you give details or point me
to a description of hardware and software required?
Thanks!
esvee53
I've never had a 2400c, but the cardbus hardware is actually already in the
2400 and 3400. A cardbus card won't physically fit, though, because the
If you've got the PB 165 online, you could try NetChronometer on
http://www.kezer.net It'll automatically check any number of time
servers and sync your 'book's clock to current time. Registration fee is
only $7 - I've got it on a 520c, and had it on my 5300 before it died.
Or, if you're a
I have reeived yesterday my NEW powerbook 1400/117, this is my first time on
MAC OS.
The battery is bad, as the CD-ROM too, but, i like it.
I also have some PCMCIA cards, one wireless cardbus PC Card - 802.11b, one
56K FAX MODEM, but most important, a external CDROM Drive.
The question, HOW
IIRC, the 5300 had a flaming battery recall for repair. Only one
or two started cooking, but it was enough to bring them all back.
The history is this: The 5300 was to have been the first laptop with
lithium-ion batteries. Prototypes were sent out to s/w developers, and a
couple of them
Subject: 3400c Sleep light
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 17:59:12 -0500
'Mornin everyone...
I have a question - I just noticed when I put my PB3400c to sleep, the
light blinks and all, but there's a little noise every time the light
comes on (It's like a slight click---click---click)
Is this a
Subject: 3400c Li-Ion Battery?
I have one that seemed to have discharged itself and
now won't charge. All 4 green lights come on however.
Is it a gonner or is there a chance to save it?
Wouldn't charge in a dual charger either. It tries to
charge but seems to give up after about 10 seconds.
Onset of whining is often a sign that the spindle motor bearings are
starting to wear out. They're sealed with lifetime lubrication at the
factory. By this they mean that life ends when the lubrication wears out.
Over time, the bearing friction will increase to the point where the
drive runs
1. If my Powerbook 190 is absolutely plugged firmly into a
known-to-be-functioning power strip, why would it tell me that I'm on the
battery (the control strip indicating I'm on battery juice instead of
wall juice)?
2. Can you safely store a PB 190 without a battery actually being inside
If the formers, it's dying. Try freezing it.
Like in your refrigerator?
Never heard of this technique.
Details perhaps?
I had heard of holding the drive as it tries to start up and twisting it
about the vertical axis to try and get the platters spinning.
If it works you should copy
I'm setting up a couple of SEs, each with a Stylewriter II, for a
couple of struggling authors.
So far I have installed a nice set of WP apps, a few games, and some
office utilities. I was hoping to add a PDF viewer, and the oldest
one I had archived was Acrobat 2.1, which requires a 68020 or
I have a PB 145b that I am working on and its display contrast keeps needing
to be adjusted every restart. After I restart and use the slider adjustment
on the PB to adjust the contrast, the slider is closer to bottoming out to
the left. This morning it started out ok sitting in the center
Alternatively, you can use free formatting tools that are agnostic
right out of the
box.
Aha, so will La Cie's Silverlining setup work (if I'm too lazy to
look for the patch)?
Also, these are ATA, not scsi, drives in the 5300; does that change
your answer?
Yes it does; sorry for the
Batteries for the series 1XX PowerBooks are available from Gadget
Power.
Depending on your budget, time, skill, and proximity to sources of cheap cells, you
might consider rebuilding rather than replacing. I for one am a cheap SOB, and
can't bring myself to paying more for batteries than
If I take an IBM formatted drive and drop it into my 5300, then start
from an external hard drive, I should be able to use Apple's drive setup
to
format it for Mac, right?
I can't see why not. I've gotten floppies which were IBM formatted and
was able to Mac format them easily with the
Does anyone have any experience repairing one of these? Things to look for, how to
get
inside the plug, etc.?
Thanks,
Spence
--
Radio Shack carries replacement 'plugs' if you are refering to the end that
plugs into the PB180. Be sure to get the polarity
My PowerBook 145b has 4MB of RAM currently, and I'm using 5MB of virtual
memory on the hard drive, but I get a lot of insufficient memory errors,
and I end up having to reboot with extentions off just to use StuffIt
Expander. I know that the 145b only supports 8MB of RAM, but if I buy a
6MB
Where can you buy anti-static bags, for example to ship hard drives
and RAM chips? Thank you.
Don't use ziploc or other ordinary plastic bags! They can definitely cause static
damage.
Wrapping in aluminum foil does a damn fine job of protecting against static charge.
Then you can put *that*
Apple has a free update to 8.1 from 8.0:
http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Mac_OS_8.1_Update/
OS 9.1 is the most recent OS officially supported by Apple.
That said, my philosophy is not to upgrade unless there's a
get that far -- it first stalled during the last part
of defrag/speedisk, doing the intermittent clicking
thing. Then it also stalled with clicking during
diskdoctor. Drive has never acted like that before,
but golly gee whiz, it's an older piece of eqiup and
not expected to last forever.
Did you know that 2400
MHz is near the resonant frequency of the water molecule - that's why
microwave ovens use that frequency to cook food, and that's also why
802.11b/g wireless links peter out quickly when the line-of-sight is
interrupted by foliage, rain, or snow.)
This is commonly
You can get backlights for powerbooks from DigiKey. In turn, JKL
supplies DigiKey, so you might just want to contact them:
http://jkllamps.com/
In general, they specify these things by length and diameter. So, pull
out your old CCFL, and have a ruler handy while you talk to their tech
support
Can anyone tell me the address that Apple gave you to send these machines
to? I'm boxing mine up myself and lost it.
Scott
Scott, you're almost certainly SOL, I'm sorry to say. AFAIK, you *must*
follow Apple's procedure, outlined on their web page. That means staying
on the line forever
For all you procrastinators out there, the REA for the 5300 ends
Tuesday, Sept. 30 (tomorrow, depending on when this ends up getting
posted). For details, see
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30425
I just called in myself, and they're going to replace the broken hinges
for free.
My powerbook 3400c running OS 8.6 has this quirk:
The battery level display near the date and time is gradually getting lower
and the battery level display in the bottom control strip is getting lower
as time passes by. I tried to put the computer to sleep while AC power is
connected and it
Can I safely use my 3400c's Li-ion batteries (I have 4 1/2
good ones) in a 5300? I have my 3400c as well as an
external double-bay charger to charge the batteries, if
there is some problem with charging them in a 5300.
IIRC, the PB3400 battery will power up the 5300 quite well. However, I am
I'm prepping a Duo 280 (greyscale) for a swap. ...
suddenly (as in, the very first time I booted up in Sys 7.6 by the HD and
not CD or floppy), the screen is showing curled blacking out in all 4 of the
corners - looks like a piece of paper w/ cinged or charred corners from a
fire that was
There are a few different wireless specifications- 802.11a, 802.11b,
and 802.11g are the important ones. 802.11a is pretty much legacy, I
think. 802.11b is the most common, supporting 11Mb. This is probably
what's $30. 802.11g is the new standard- and it's pretty new, I don't
know if the
Now my update:
the screen is now fine! (?) all prior negative symptoms are at present not
there!
I have no idea how this happened, except (I speculate) heat, and the need to
cool down as contributing factors. Is this a collateral symptom of the Dark
corners syndrome, Mad Dog?
Heat
I have an old PowerBook 170 that I=92m trying to resurrect but it has an
LCD problem.
=A0
It has light shadowy tinges to the extremes of the display which get
darker and grow inwards after a while of use, so much so that it looks
like you have tunnel vision with only the middle 2/3 of the
So what I learned is that dark areas are receiving too much juice, or
perhaps in the case of our mono TFT edge-darkening, where the liquid
crystals are _more_sensitive_ . . . Boy ain't it great to be so ignorant,
it leaves me with so much still to learn! G
Not a mono TFT PB500, but close
But I'm a bit sceptical about the backlight theory.
But I've put a Picture of my screen online. So you can see what I mean.
Unfortunately I have shot this picture too early. So there is only a bit of
the top darkening. But it really gets worse when running the PB540 for some
hours longer.
I have a very strange problem with my Powerbook 540 b/w LCD Display: When I
start up my Powerbook everything works fine. But after some minutes it
starts to get more and more black at the borders. So when it's running for
maybe more than 2 hours i have very ugly dark spots (about 1/2 inch or
Only the original model M5140 power adapters, manufactured from August
1991 through September 1992, exhibit this problem, and only these will
be replaced under the program. The affected adapters have Model
M5140 printed on their labels, and were shipped with the PowerBook
100, 140, 145,
Thanks for the reply. The rated input voltage I was supplying was a bit
higher than what it was designed for (states on the Powerbook 7.5V 2A max)
and I was giving it just under 10v (using a battery pack that supplied a 3A
max supply). Normally semiconductors are a bit more tolerant to a bit
Shreve is selling new old stock 19.2 modems for the PB5xx for $2. Hard to
beat that
deal. You might want to check them out.
IIRC, Shreve closed its doors and turned all its inventory over to an
auction
house about two months ago.
Nope, they changed their minds. Shreve is now focusing on
Forget about using a CD-R with either machine. The 190 (besides not
being SCSI Manager 4.3 compliant) doesn't have enough umph to do a
whole lot of cd mastering. I can't speak for the 5x0, but I'd bet
it's the same.
- Score 1 for the 540c (just because) (190cs: 2, 540c: 1)
Drew is
I know the 3400 can produce millions of colors on a TV? But never heard of
it working on a monitor?
Anyone have a 3400c with an 8x drive?
I'm wondering if the 1.2GB listed is actually a 1.3GB and they are just
listing how much space is on the drive with the OS installed.
I know the ad about
Subject: Strange clack in a 3400
From: Mehdi El Gueddari [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
My brand new powerbook 3400 has a very annoying problem : a clack sound
appears as soon as the powerbook is powered on and repeats itself every few--
Is the clack more of a clunk?
From: Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Maxing out a 1400 C and CS
In-reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-id: l03102803ba0438aa7d63@[192.168.1.102]
Hard Drive (perhaps new IBM Liquid Bearing Drive) and CD-ROM (or even CD-RW).
I would love to have suggestions from any and all.
Don't
Subject: Batteries: why do they die and how to prevent it?
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Subject says it all.
This short question could lead to an infinitely long answer. To keep it brief, I'll
limit the discussion to just rechargeable batteries.
Rechargeable batteries work because their
Never, never, never, ever zap charge a Lion battery!! It doesn't do any good, and it
can ignite an explosive reaction. Don't do it -- there's no reason to.
Zap charge NiCd and NiMH cells all you want, but one cell at a time (never in series),
and only cells you've identified as shorted. Shorted
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