Re: Crappage...PB1400

2003-12-09 Thread Brian
On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 08:12 PM, Ken Norris wrote: Hello Brian, Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 21:12:06 -0500 Subject: Re: Crappage...PB1400 From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It doesn't really matter which mainboard you get as long as you have a G3 update installed, the G3 update sup

Re: Crappage...PB1400

2003-12-09 Thread Darkwolf45
Thanks for the advice. I opened up the PB, did a little bit of pushing on the connector, and when I gnetly slid the CD ROM into the bay, it WORKED!!! I haven't tried the Zip drive, but I am hopeful that it will work as well. As far as visible damage or misalignment, I didn't see any. I'm goin

Re: Crappage...PB1400

2003-12-09 Thread Ken Norris
Hello Brian, > Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 21:12:06 -0500 > Subject: Re: Crappage...PB1400 > From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It doesn't really matter which mainboard you > get as long as you have a G3 update installed, the G3 update supercedes > all the original hardwa

Re: Crappage...PB1400

2003-12-09 Thread John McGibney
> > Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 19:40:23 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Crappage...PB1400 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm having a bit of a problem with my PB 1400. Sometime ago I came on here > trying to figure out why my internal zip d

Re: Crappage...PB1400

2003-12-09 Thread David Allen
When you look down into the bay (with drives removed) can you see any damaged or missing pins? Anything in there that could be blocking the pins from making a connection? Does the connector line up perfectly? (I saw a 1400 that had the board's drive connector bent backwards a bit from drives being

Re: Crappage...PB1400

2003-12-09 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
on 09/12/03 02:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My thanks. I don't have a G3 card installed- I didn't install one since I had > planned to upgrade to a faster notebook, but $30 for a new board isn't too > much to put into it. I'll just have to get one from a PB 1400/166. > I

Re: Crappage...PB1400

2003-12-08 Thread Darkwolf45
In a message dated 12/8/2003 9:12:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The connector that you see can indeed get damaged; you cannot easily > replace just the connector but you can sometimes find 1400 > mainboards > on ebay for $30 or so. My thanks. I don't have a G3 card

Re: Crappage...PB1400

2003-12-08 Thread Brian
On Monday, December 8, 2003, at 09:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neither zip drive works. So far as I can tell, I have all the necessary software loaded. I thought at first that it might be the CD ROM drive, but I'm hesitant to buy another one since this seems to be becoming a pattern. Thus

Re: Crappage...PB1400

2003-12-08 Thread Darkwolf45
In a message dated 12/8/2003 8:55:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > If your zip is working now, then you either do not have the correct > extensions loaded to activate the cd or your cd drive is > toast, which > happens with these units Neither zip drive works. So far as

Re: Crappage...PB1400

2003-12-08 Thread Illovox Media
on 12/8/03 4:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm having a bit of a problem with my PB 1400. Sometime ago I came on here > trying to figure out why my internal zip drives wouldn't work in this machine. > Now I'm using this little puppy in full swing again, and i booted it up

Crappage...PB1400

2003-12-08 Thread Darkwolf45
I'm having a bit of a problem with my PB 1400. Sometime ago I came on here trying to figure out why my internal zip drives wouldn't work in this machine. Now I'm using this little puppy in full swing again, and i booted it up with the CD ROM drive loaded to upgrade some software, and the CD RO