I remember someone on this list made a how-to on changing cable
select CD ROM mechanisms to master/slave so they could work on a PB
1400. Anyone remember ?
thanks,
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I just purchased off eBay a PowerBook 1400cs with a floppy drive
module; I have some old financial records on floppies and I need to
access them, but my iBook 900 won't do it and can't be easily made
to do it. My problem started when the PB arrived and I found the
previous owner had
(Re-post: It looks like my email got lost somewhere in the ether the
other day - it didn't bounce, but I never saw it turn up on the
list).
Of course, this is topic is so completely off-topic for this list...
Having said that, let me contribute to the collective delinquency!
;-)
I own
I think that that would be a little dangerous, and, anyways, why would you
want to do that? I'd think that mounting a small LED array around the logo
with the spacing so that it would diffuse properly and a mirrored backing to
keep from affecting the LCD backlight would be the best solution,
PowerBook G3s glow. Not very brightly, but they definitely glow.
Also, clamshell iBooks were supposed to glow. They decided right before
production to make them not. The fix was a metallic sticker placed over the
apple cutout inside the display where the LCD backlight was supposed to
shine
I guess I'm also curious if anybody has been using a failing L2
cache mobo long term? If so, how's that working out?
You mean CPU card ? I have heard the CPU caches on the lombard are
fragile. Still if its the cache parts themselves, you can get new
Cache parts from daystar and they can
Would it be that easy putting a 520c screen on a 520?
I never encountered any problems doing the same for the 500 series.
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I have a Power Book 1400cs and I was wondering because of the screen
quality can I get a screen from the PB 1400c and switch it without any
other software or setup?
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Its a straight swap. No software or other changes needed.
OK, Gang. Looking for a little guidance here.
Just inherited a G3 Wallstreet 233 no L2 cache. Read: client
bought new 17 G4 PB...a shock to her system, I must say...! She
felt less than a connection with her old trusty workhorse, and it
ended up in the dustbin, along with all its attachments.
The WS II had cache on all models: 233 (512K), 266 (1M) and 300 (1M)
The WS I had cache only on the fastest models: 233 (no cache), 250 (1M)
and 292 (1M).
Get a 250 or 292 MHz card for this machine.
A WS II CPU card WILL NOT WORK in a WS I.
Other way around. WS2 CPU works in a WS1 mobo,
Running X can be tricky. While you can run 10.2.X with no trouble,
getting 10.3.X or 10.4.X requires X Post Facto to install those OS
versions. I am struggling with getting 10.3 to install on my
Wallstreet.
10.3 runs perfectly on a WS I or II, using Xpostfacto as a bootstrap.
The
10.3 runs perfectly on a WS I or II, using Xpostfacto as a bootstrap.
The installation is a little counter-intuitive, but it does go on, and
Panther (10.3.9 ?) has been rock solid.
I can get 10.3 to install, but I have the Purple Panther Problem. Do
you have a purple tinted screen ? I
Problem is: The 3400c doesn't boot anymore. I have the OS 8.5 in the
CD tray, but the PB refuses to boot, not even a sound, well, just a
click, that's all.
The PB was disconnected for months, however, it did start a few
times while in my care. Now, nothing.
Should I buy a PRAM battery? Is there
On May 2, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Noah Wood wrote:
Hey, I have a PowerBook 1400cs/133. I was wondering if there was any
way to increase the performance other than upgrading anything. I have
OS 8.1 installed and 32MB RAM and a 1 GIG HD. Thanks!
Not really. Adding another 32 MB of Ram to max it at 64
Which laptop is model M7572 ? Pismo ? Lombard ? Wallstreet ?
thanks,
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Hi Would 2.5 SCSI IBM branded laptop drives work in Duos and 5xx series?
Thanks
They should.
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CompUSA is blowing out Hawking Technologies HWC54G (I think) PC cards
for $20 after rebates. Do these work under 9/X ?
thanks,
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Yes, I need the 2 small wheels that make the cursor move on the
screen when you turn the ball from the trackball system. Both are
cracked on mine Duo 280c.
Hope my FrenchGlish do not interfere and that the above is comprehensible?
Anyone has these for sale or know where I can buy some?
JCT
Just
I have a Rev C that was dropped on a stone floor and refuses to work
anymore. I've been looking for someone who knows how to fix it for
about a year now. :)
Later.Howard
Have you taken it apart and looked for obvious breaks or cracks ?
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Listers,
A couple of years ago or so someone posted a very nice description of how to
recell/rebuild a PB1400 battery. It included common problems/issues,
possible sources for the cells in both the US and Canada and a what not to
do note. It was both a description in the body of an email and
I was running Battery Recondition on my PB5300c, when suddenly, the
screen went dark and a noise like static came from the speaker. I
had to remove the battery in order to restart the computer. When I
tried to run Battery Recondition again, the same thing happened. I
ran it earlier on a
I have 6 PB 3400c, all but 1 has some form of GLOD or sleeping
sickness, the 2 machines that run check okay with Tech Tools, does
anyone know of a diagonistic that will detect these problems.
Thanks
Roger
If you put your ear near the powerboard, do they make a slight, high
pitched whining
I didn't have a single 'nuther thing to do yesterday (NOT!! :-). . . so I
did this!
PowerBooks 3400 of the 180, 200 and 240mhz varieties all share the same
40mhz bus speed. The difference between them is the speed rating of the
603e processor and the cpu-to-bus ratio, set with a grid of resistors
Subject: Re: 3400c USB and a JumpDrive
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:01:19 -0500
You can get a hacked copy which will install on any Mac right here:
ftp://olympus.wwc.edu/pub/faculty/frohro/USBCardSupport1.4.1.sea.hqx
You don't suppose this would work with my my Dad's 1400 G3?
Not that he really needs
Hi there!
I recently acquired a supposedly new CD-ROM drive for
my 1400cs, but when I insert a CD (either audio or
data), it spins around and nothing comes up. The
little yellow light just keeps blinking. The system
profiler recognizes that the CD-ROM drive is indeed
there, but I can't get
Which begs the question for me...Apple knew this board was capable of at
least 50 MHz bus speeds, since they did it on the Kanga. Why did they
cripple the 603 models with anemic bus speeds when a 10 percent increase can
offset a 20 percent difference in clockspeed?
Although the 3400 and 3500 are
I have an old powerbook duo that needs repair, not sure exactly what is wrong
with it. I do know tht it needs a battery module as it is missing and the
track ball assembly is missing. Also I don't have a power adapter that this
might use. I do have the doc that goes with it.
Can anyone help me out
I am taking the non-working 1400 apart.
Following are the stuff in the old 1400
HS7267AGA. It appears this could be a USB board?
15-1063079-6760-0411-24 On the front is D598 or 0598
83B/3B .=- Could be RAM. Darn it, I should have taken a picture of
them before I took them out.
Dale
There is no
Hi Listers !
My 1400c has 40 MB of RAM. I need to max this out so I can use OS
9.1 ( I know, it's a HOG )and do some minor work with Photoshop or
run iTunes.
Is 64 MB the end of the line here ? Or just the limit at the time
the machine was new?
The CPU is the stock 166 MHz.
Opinions as to
Hello. I have a PB 3400c With some dead pixels. I have a few questions
about them. How come they are there? Is there any way I can prevent
them? Can I get rid of them? Thanks for your help!
~ Ben ~
I dont know if this is urban legend or not, but you might be able to
unfreeze them, by _gently_
Here's a new one. I've got two 3400c motherboards (200MHz and
180MHz). I've gotten my 180 to boot alright (but for some reason I
can't get ethernet working - but that's a separate issue I'll deal
with later). The 200, on the other hand, just has GLOD.
Using EXACTLY the same components (the
Andrew,
I have 4 with this symptom, so if you discover the cause, let me
know, the cause is on the logic board, and like Tom, I have replaced
the PMU chip.
Roger
Anyone know which IC is the voltage controller for the CPU ? Thats
my next near-random guess.
Mad Dog
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Hello MadDog,
A while ago, I asked on Chipdir-L -
PMU (68HC05) in an Apple PowerBook - possible to
reflash?
Here follows the only reply that I saved from a very
long thread:
The PMU doesnt have a reflash window. I dont think this will
help..of course, I have nothing to lose by trying it.
What does GLOD mean
Tom
Green
Light
Of
Death
originally used for describing certain symptoms on PB 2400. Now, it
can generally mean a unit that clicks, but doesnt do anyhting else.
The sleep LED sometimes comes on.
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I have a working PB1400c/117 and a PB1400cs/166 with a dead screen.
Would it be easier to swap the working screen onto the 166 machine,
or install the 166 internals into the 1400c? Or is neither really
worth the aggro?
All views gratefully received!
Swapping the screen is much less work.
Mad
I've pulled the dead screen from the 1400cs, with the intention of
swapping it for the working 1400c screen.
Just out of interest I opened up the case of that dead screen and
I've found that there's a tiny reed switch under the LCD panel
(behind the edge of the case, just about where the Apple
I fitted the 1400c screen to the 1400cs, but on start-up the screen
is dark as though the backlight isn't working. Refitting that same
screen to the 1400c, it works perfectly. What am I doing wrong?
Make sure you have the cable heads planted correctly in the sockets.
The screens are 100%
In the near future I will be going back into my PB 1400 to install a
new motherboard. I was inside once before to install a Sonnet G3
processor. Will I need any special tools? Are there instructions
anywhere that I can download?
Thanks,
Spence
http://www.genchan.com/
While it's too late now to do anything about this, as I've already ordered
the card, I'm hoping that someone will say that a ram card for a 3400c/180
is the same as one for a 3400c/200. I've got a 64meg card coming but on the
site linked from LEM the two cards have different part numbers (but the
Please correct me if I am wrong but shouldn't the control strip (and
the control panel) show 640x480 as well as 800x600? I only get
800x600 as the available resolution and this cannot use thousands
since 512 mb is not enough for 800x600. Also at some point there was
only 832x624 available
Hello listers,
I have recently acquired a dead 5300ce from which I scavenged the
display assembly and have put it onto a working 5300 (that had a
grayscale screen). The system booted right away and the bigger
screen with active matrix really looks great. However, I have
difficulties with the
Hi, proud powerbook owners! I have a question about my 3400c (189 mhz).
It seems to me that the screen is not as bright as it should be. The
brightness switch is cranked up and when I look at the Control Panel for
video and sound it has two settings: standard mac gamma and uncorrected
gamma. The
Hello! I have a duo 230. I am trying to connect a scsi cd rom to it. I got
the cdrom drive that isn the scsicase from a pm 7100. It worked with my
5300cs. I connect it to the dock, and start the computer, and the cd doesnt
show up. I have a disk called crystal calliburn pinball in it that i know
Well, today I picked up a non-DOA PMU from eBay and put it in my
3400c. It still didn't boot. It didn't even click. I heard a
slight whine, but nothing else. I've tried the reset button,
removing the PRAM battery, etc, all to no avail.
Do you guys have any ideas on how to get it working?
Craig,
The symptoms your machine is demonstrating sound like the start
of acute sleeping sickness and the problem is probably on the main
logic board, I have several units with this problem and the ones I
received early enough to observe started this way, getting worse
until they would not
I picked up a 280c at a car boot sale recently and after replacing the
HD and refurbishing the battery it is a surprisingly useful laptop
which lasts for a good hour or so on the battery, now I believe it has
a built in modem but the connector is a mini din like the serial ports
though I am led to
Alternatively, will a 270c screen work on a 280/280c computer that was
operating well with a black and white screen since new? Are the chipset and
drivers OK in that other good machine, or would I have to change the logic
board in that also?
Yep, the 270c and 280c screens are identical. The 280
Hi,
My 3400c/200 is doing something screwy...
It will not startup off the battery, or charge it. BUT it does see the
battery, and will run off of it (even if I unplug the powerbook
right after the
startup chime!) w/o any problems.
I have reset the PRAM, and the Power Manager. I have also
In a message dated 8/25/2004 8:09:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Did you try to clean the battery contacts ? Could it be the battery itself
?
Tried that; switched both the battery and the Power Supply board... no
difference. And both batteries charge just fine in a
Does this combination work? I am getting chimes of hardware
malfunction immediately, but no picture on the screen. I think I
will open it and have a look inside to check on connections.
However, are there certain things to look at when I do? And can
I check parts by hooking up to an auxiliary
Ah, we need an FAQ . . .
You don't need to ship it for an upgrade. Just buy a generic USB
card and file the little key-slot thing off it. Then it will fit in
your card-cage. I got mine new from ebay for about 20 sterling.
I agree. Thats what I did. $20 on Ebay and it works fine.
Mad Dog
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Matt,
I have 4 machines with this problem, had a fifth, but it was
repaired by replacing the power supply module. I suspect heat is
part of the problem, as all of the failed units I have are 200 or
240 mHz machines. A PMU reset is accomplished by removing all power
AC and battery
Hi ok so if the 3400 has a mini pci port does that mean that in
theory you should be able to put one of these new mini pci wifi
internal cards in it and then hook up some sort of internal antenna.
suggestions please vicki
I can give you all the evidence you need in one simple fact--you can
On Aug 17, 2004, at 01:26 am, Malcolm Cornelius wrote:
on 17/08/04 01:23, Mark Benson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
According to Apple-History.com the 3400 was Apple's first PCI-based
Laptop. Can anyone confirm or deny this with supporting evidence?
Er why ?
Curiousity really. I am fairly sure i've
Does any body know if you put a 166 mhz card in a 133 mhz machine? I have
heard that it will work and it will not work. I tried one in my and it did
not work. Does anybody know how to make one work?
Thanks.
Jim
Unless your 1400 has the newer ROMs, you cant use the 166 CPU. You
can rework the CPU
This, or similar messages are circulating. They are obviously fake,
but does anybody know more detailed info on this thing?
Ben
I forwarded it to the spoof email address at ebay, but they havnt
gotten back to me yet. Clearly another scam.
Mad Dog
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Hey list, good day to all, and a question for the list. I have a Poernook
3400.200 with 90 of ram running OS 9.1 and everytime I insert the
floppy module
and attempt to read a floppy I get the message that the floppy can't be read
and would I like to initialize it. Whether I answer yay or nay
I've got a 5300cs with Green Light Of Death syndrome here. The sleep
light just stays on constantly, even when unplugged from AC and with
the battery out. I pushed the reset button in the back, GLOD. Held
that in for 30 seconds to reset the power manager, GLOD. Unplugged
the pram battery,
A friend of mine has a PowerBook 3400c/180 that she's been using for
the past number of years, however one day it refused to power on.
She had me take a look at it, and I hit the power button (without it
plugged in) and it powered up but no chime and nothing on the
screen. I set it down on a
Adam,
I have 3 complete machines plus a logic board with similar
symptoms, in one case I was able to resurrect a machine by replacing
the power supply module, but in the 4 other cases the problem lay
with the logic board and probably on of 2 chips, the PMU chip, which
is a low power 68000
Looking to buy the following items:
1) working G3 card for the powerbook 2400. I can probably only
afford the NuPower 240.
2) mac PCI ethernet card, 10bT is fine. Must have drivers or at
least tell me where to get them.
3) keyboard for a PB 190/5300/3400/3500. All keys must be working.
4)
Possibly showing my ignorance here: why doesn't the L2 cache show up in
apple profiler on my 133? From what I can find out, the 117 did not have L2
cache but the 133 is supposed to have 512K? Does it depend on the
motherboard? My pieced-together unit has a motherboard from a 117. Will it
show up
Some time ago, I posted a request for ideas about 3 PB 3400
motherboards that all had the same problems:
Each board would boot chime, but stop at the flashing question mark
disk. The cursor would not move, either from external mouse or
trackpad. It would not boot from internal CD, external
There is definitely something wrong there.
My 500mhz G4 showed a like 80% gain in almost everything over the 266 G3.
And like a 400% gain in AltiVec stuff.
on 7/4/04 4:25 PM, Beniamino Cenci Goga at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Ws is a 500 MHz bluechip 1MB L2 with 384 MB RAM, the Kanga is a
190
Wanted to buy: Dead or malfunctioning powerbook 2400, 3400, or 3500
motherboards.
thanks,
Mad Dog
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Earlier, I posted about a problem I had with three 3400 motherboards:
-
I have three 3400 motherboards exhibiting odd problems. Each of the
three behaves the same: It can boot, it gets to the flashing disk,
and goes no further (HD or CD ROM). Oddly enough, neither the
trackpad, nor an
Lister,
Finally got ahold of some battery reconditioning utilities for my
280c's.. The problem is when I plug either battery into either laptop, and
click on battery level in the control strip I get an error message that
tells me there is no battery present.
I've cleaned the contacts on
I could of sworn someone had a webpage that detailed how to use a USB
PCMCIA card on a 3400. Anyone know the address ?
thanks,
Mad Dog
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My page details how to use a FireWire cardbus card, which is pretty much the
same as a USB Cardbus card...
http://www.palkasoft.com/hooper/
on 6/19/04 2:54 PM, Tom and Lisa P at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I could of sworn someone had a webpage that detailed how to use a USB
PCMCIA card on a 3400
Hello again all...
I thought I'd mention here that I'm now selling my famed 265mhz PowerBook
3400c. I thought I'd use it for something after having bought a Wallstreet,
but I really haven't so I'm selling it now...
It's the one from http://www.palkasoft.com/hooper/
The light gray keys are PowerBook 520 keys implanted on a 190cs keyboard,
and voila a two tone 3400c keyboard.
on 6/17/04 7:10 AM, Tom and Lisa P at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Groovy. I didnt know they shared the same design.
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I never did find them. Thanks for the tip, I will poke around when I
get the chance. Last time I tried it, I randomly hit various pads
hoping to get lucky.
thanks,
Mad Dog
Mot has some PDFs (well, they did a few years ago before the
semiconductor group started to tank) online with the pinouts of
Mad Dog, this is mostly aimed at you. Though anyone can answer!
Did you ever find the PLL resistors on the 2300 motherboard? I'm
not certain, but I suspect they aren't in a bank like we see on
most other Macs. It will take some investigating to confirm, but
I'll bet they are on the underside
It looks like the L2 cache on my 3500 is dead, dead, dead. While I
have another 3500 motherboard (dead) I can scrounge from, I would
rather put down a faster cache part if possible. Is there anyone out
there with a G3 powerbook that can look at the L2 cache chips and
read of the part # ?
Is there any way to know if a 3400 RAM card will work in a 3500 ? I
seem to recall that not all 3400 cards will work in a 3500 or am
I imagining things ?
thanks,
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Hi Mad Dog
been following the thread for a while and even though i have not had these
symptoms on a powerbook i have on a G3 266 desktop i had.
after trying everything to get it going again as a last resort i replaced
the cpu and it worked. I know that the cpu on the 3400 is soldered to the
board
Tom,
I have a boot floppy I can send you.
Roger
Tom and Lisa P wrote:
Drew
Why do I have the feeling OHare is one of the BGA ICs ?
I can try a floppy boot if I can find a boot floppy; its been a while.
Mad Dog
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Amazed I
On Jun 1, 2004, at 9:53 PM, Tom and Lisa P wrote:
I have three 3400 motherboards exhibiting odd problems. Each of
the three behaves the same: It can boot, it gets to the flashing
disk, and goes no further. Oddly enough, neither the trackpad, nor
an external mouse can get the cursor to move
Have you tried a bootable floppy? Other than that, I'm really at a loss.
- Eric.
I havnt tried that yet, but my guess so far is that the IDE
controller is wonky, so no floppy CD or internal HD.
Anyone know which IC is the IDE controller ?
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I have three 3400 motherboards exhibiting odd problems. Each of the
three behaves the same: It can boot, it gets to the flashing disk,
and goes no further. Oddly enough, neither the trackpad, nor an
external mouse can get the cursor to move, but it accepts keyboard
commands, such as power
FYI, the floppy isn't an IDE device. It's a raw SWIM device - it
talks directly to the floppy controller.
I don't know if this will help you or not, but there's a description
of most of the 5300's ICs in my FAQ.
http://www.alksoft.com/5300_FAQ/FAQ_2.9.php#298
There's also a few pictures (in
I have three 3400 motherboards exhibiting odd problems. Each of the
three behaves the same: It can boot, it gets to the flashing disk,
and goes no further. Oddly enough, neither the trackpad, nor an
external mouse can get the cursor to move, but it accepts keyboard
commands, such as power
Hi again, fellow listers!
First of all, sorry for the delay, but I'm on Digest mode.
Secondly: I've done everything that was suggested by all you helpful
fellows with no positive results.
I've concluded that the mobo connector is somehow damaged, although
I can't see any obvious damage.
Now
Sounds like a problem with the Kanga, yes. Do floppies work in the expansion
bay? If you have problems there too, then it's the bay itself. If not, you
might just try to replace the Apple CD-ROM driver with a fresh copy.
The media connector is probably at fault.
The Kanga (and most others) use a
In a message dated 5/12/2004 8:20:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have replaced the pram battery, zap it, and even got a new power
supply, but still no start-up.
Has anyone else had similar problems?
I know I had this problem once; I removed some RAM, which I guess was
(wow! Answering MY OWN post!)
It would seem, if I understand correctly what EveryMac.com means by
look-aside Bus speed(?) that the 100mhz Assistive Technology
Freestyle is the
slowest Powerbook with an L2 cache...
Craig W.
Atlanta GA
Take some pics. I dont think I have ever heard of this
If I used RAM doubler, would there be any chance of running OSX on a 1400?
TIA,
Ken N.
No way, no how, no when. OS X requires PCI type machines, of which
the 1400 is not. To the best of my knowledge, the earliest portable
capable of running OS X is a 3400.
Mad Dog
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On Tuesday, April 13, 2004, at 04:36 PM, Dan K wrote:
Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] asks:
Is there any way yet to put a faster or -RW drive in a 6X carrier? The
last I read you could put a 24X -RW drive in, but only if you had the
12X CD module to start with. And that concurs with the guy who is
So, I've finally got around to moving my 1400 setup onto a working
1400 mainboard, the original one, for some reason both the CD and
floppy interfaces were dead (no obvious cracks or anything on the
little support pieces, that's about all I checked).
Anyway I have one working 6X CD module and
Hi; I am having trouble diagnosing a problem I am having with TWO 3400c/180
motherboards...
Neither will boot. I have one screen, two Power Supply boards, two PRAM
batteries and all of the rest of the parts needed to make one
complete unit, but no
matter the combination, NOTHING will make either
At 4:57 PM -0400 4/8/04, Tom and Lisa P wrote:
Have you confirmed it's the ADB controller and not the trackpad.
The easiest way to do this is to plug in a mouse to the external
ADB port.
The trackpad works on another 3400 I have, so thats not the problem.
The most likely failure of ADB is due
Tom,
Try as I might I could not cross reference that PMU chip, let me
Know if you
do.
Thanks
Roger
At this point, it looks like you will have to scrounge them from 5300
and 1400 motherboards. No big loss, those are much cheaper than 3400
mobos. I will attempt a transplant today.
The
I just transplanted the PMU chip from a 5300 to my 180 Mhz 3400c
board (exact same chip). Unfortunately it still has the same
symptoms; the unit will bong, get the the question mark disk, with
the cursor stuck in the upper left corner. No ADB function, nor does
the trackpad. The HD spins up
Tom,
If you're looking at the top side of the motherboard there 2 large high
density chips near the center of the board, one of them is labeled PMU that is
the bad chip, I also have several bad 3400 logic boards with this same
problem, the primary symptom of the problem is usually that the
I was looking over my 3400 boards and one of them uses the same PMU
chip as the 5300, while others use a -B version of the chip. So, I
am hoping that all the 3400 can use either the 3400 or 5300 PMU chip.
Mad Dog
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Have you confirmed it's the ADB controller and not the trackpad.
The easiest way to do this is to plug in a mouse to the external ADB
port.
The trackpad works on another 3400 I have, so thats not the problem.
The most likely failure of ADB is due to a blown fuse. There are
several surface
Hi Mad dog.
could you mail me your url so i can try that adb mod on my 280c .
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/gionpeters//.htm
also where do you get all the bits from as you seem to have a never ending
supply.
I have an addiction to buying computer parts. I dont know if there is a cure.
After some further inspection, the 1400 motherboard seems to have the
same -B PMU unit. Can someone else inspect some of thier 1400 mobos
to confirm this ? Ebay usually has cheap 1400 mobos, so that can be
an easy source for the IC.
Mad Dog
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Tom P aka Mad Dog asks:
Does anyone know which chip on the 3400 controlls the ADB ?
Opening the PB3400 devnote . . . the Architecture block chart on page
11 shows the PMU IC with ADB responsibilities. Then on pages 15 and 16 we
find this helpful info:
quote
Power Management Unit
The power
Does anyone know which chip on the 3400 controlls the ADB ?
thanks,
Mad Dog
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