Re: 3400 not charging

2003-01-27 Thread Jae Redfern
I zapped the PRAM but how does one zap the powermanager? Actually, what *is* the power manager? Jae Did you try zapping the PRAM, and the PowerManager? If not, it could be a bad powerboard. Nick -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: 3400 (5300??) query 3

2003-01-20 Thread Donn Haven Lathrop
What would others advise about this, please? One of my 5300's has 40 MB RAM, the other 64 MB. VM is OFF on both--RAM Doubler 2 is ON on both--no problems. VM really slows them down. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: 3400 query 1

2003-01-20 Thread Sionnach Aisling
--- K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I , too, was thinking of adding a larger drive, but the only hard drives now available seem to be 10 g or more. Yet an Apple repair specialist here said that there was an 8g limit on the powerbook 3400s and he would not recommend going over that- something

Re: 3400 query 1

2003-01-20 Thread Joost van de Griek
On 2003-01-20 14:20, Sionnach Aisling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I , too, was thinking of adding a larger drive, but the only hard drives now available seem to be 10 g or more. Yet an Apple repair specialist here said that there was an 8g limit on the powerbook

Re: 3400 query 3

2003-01-20 Thread Clark Martin
At 8:26 PM +1100 1/20/2003, K wrote: Andrew Kershaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Subject: Re: Best OS for a 5300cs ... I HATE Virtual Memory with a PASSION. It thrashes the hard drive and quickly fragments the damn thing, causing the whole system to slow up while the drive head accesses random

Re: 3400 query 1

2003-01-20 Thread Clark Martin
At 8:26 PM +1100 1/20/2003, K wrote: Charles Siegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: change 3400 hard drive? I was thinking of putting a left over hard drive from a Lombard in my old 3400c. Is there any reason why this would not work? I , too, was thinking of adding a larger drive, but the

Re: 3400 query 1

2003-01-20 Thread John Webb
Hi There! His advice may be wise, but so far my Powerbook 3400/180 has a 12g drive and I have had no problems with it at all. It's only if you plan to partition the hard drive do you have to make sure that the first partition is no larger than 8g. I think that's right! Anyone to back me up?

Re: 3400 (9.1 vs 8.6)

2003-01-09 Thread chouston
on 1/8/03 19:07, (PowerBooks) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vicki, I've a 3400c maxed out in memory(144 Megs), and am extemely stasified with 8.6. I tried 9.1 but was unhappy withit on two points, the machine seemed to run slower and 9.1 uses a lot more memory. I reverted to 8.6. Roger

Re: 3400.

2003-01-08 Thread Sionnach Aisling
Haha... I'll go against the grain on tis one :-) I have a 3400/200 with 80MB of RAM. I installed and ran 8.6 on it for quite a few months. Overall it was fairly quick and seemed quite stable, but I always had a problem with the IP stack and the load speed of web pages when surfing...

Re: 3400.

2003-01-08 Thread Mehdi El Gueddari
Hi, OS9 seems slightly slower on startup. But, honestly, not much. SO far it has been quite as stable as 8.6 and my apps seem to load just as quickly as they did in 8.6. Most importantly for me, my INternet Browsing speed is now what I would expect it to be from a cable modem connection.

Re: 3400.

2003-01-08 Thread Sionnach Aisling
I don't think my Internet problems were 8.6 related as I know some people running 8.6 that aren't having the same issues... I'm pretty sure it was related to the IP stack... I had fooled with it for a little while but couldn't get it going... Didn't bother me so much as my 3400 really isn't a

Re: 3400.

2003-01-07 Thread Roger Volk
Vicki, I've a 3400c maxed out in memory(144 Megs), and am extemely stasified with 8.6. I tried 9.1 but was unhappy withit on two points, the machine seemed to run slower and 9.1 uses a lot more memory. I reverted to 8.6. Roger vicki wrote: Hi all What the best OS for the 3400 all I

Re: 3400.

2003-01-07 Thread Lou Judson
I'll agree with this. We have two 3400Cs here, one with 8.6 and one with 9.1 - my partner is happy enough with 9.1 but I like the way the 8.6 responds better. Both have max RAM, too. Lou Roger Volk wrote: Vicki, I've a 3400c maxed out in memory(144 Megs), and am extemely stasified with

Re: 3400, or all powerbooks, was: 5300 battery

2003-01-06 Thread Tim Allen
I just leave my battery in all the time on my 3400c and mainly run it off AC. I bought it second-hand and the battery seems to give about an hour - they're much better than the so-called intelligent batteries in the 500 series and seem to suffer less problems. Batteries for the 5300 will also work

Re: 3400, or all powerbooks, was: 5300 battery

2003-01-06 Thread Tom Roth
There's been a lot about batteries on this list so if you can access the archives you'll find a wealth of information. But to summarize it, at least once a week (once a month at the very least) unplug the AC and use the battery until you get the warning message that the computer is about to

Re: 3400, or all powerbooks, was: 5300 battery

2003-01-06 Thread Joost van de Griek
On 2003-01-06 17:08, Tom Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's been a lot about batteries on this list so if you can access the archives you'll find a wealth of information. But to summarize it, at least once a week (once a month at the very least) unplug the AC and use the battery until you

Re: 3400, or all powerbook, battery

2003-01-06 Thread Lou Judson
Great, now I have directly conflicting advice. It IS a li-ion, so I shouldn't let it discharge??? I should just keep them plugged in all the time unless taking it somewhere? Or let it work on battery once a month and recharge? Where is the certain point? I did go to the archive but there is so

Re: 3400 Q's

2003-01-03 Thread Sionnach Aisling
At 8:53 PM -0500 1/2/2003, Tom Lisa P wrote: 1) Is the keyboard on the 3400 the same as on the 5300 ? 2) Is the modem/ethernet dongle necessary if you only want to use one or the other, but not both at the same time ? 1.) H... not 100% sure. The 5300 and 190 used the same

Re: 3400 service manual - was: 3400-190 interchangeable parts

2003-01-02 Thread Lou Judson
I'd love a copy of the 3400 service manaul! Thanks in advance... Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio 415-388-3702 • [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Skipp wrote: I have the service manuals in PDF format for these computers. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: 3400 Q's

2003-01-02 Thread Clark Martin
At 8:53 PM -0500 1/2/2003, Tom Lisa P wrote: 1) Is the keyboard on the 3400 the same as on the 5300 ? 2) Is the modem/ethernet dongle necessary if you only want to use one or the other, but not both at the same time ? Conditionally yes. All three pairs are on the back connector (pins 1,2,3,6

Re: 3400 Question

2002-12-25 Thread Spry/Fujita
I'm not going to claim guru status, but I do own a 3400 and here is my two bits: I suspect that the trying to boot up with out the main battery installed has caused the PRAM batts to be sucked out. They will need to sit on a charge for a long time to get charged up again - and someone with more

Re: 3400 question

2002-12-23 Thread Gary D. Adams
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 -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: 3400 question

2002-12-23 Thread Gary E Davis
Uh Oh I don't think I did that... Thanks guy Gary -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac

Re: 3400 CD-ROM

2002-12-11 Thread Charlie Reyes
Although I may need a SCSI burner now that I think about it, unless I also get a USB or Firewire PCMCIA card and external USB or Firewire case for the EIDE's as well ... any ideas? Scuzzy does it best. Charlie -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: 3400 and Multimedia cards

2002-11-07 Thread sirksd
I am not familiar with MultiMedia cards, but I have a reader that is in the cardbus slot that reads SmartMedia and I know of others who have cardbus readers for flashcards. So, check on what type you have and eBay will probably have it for under $20.00 for Smartmedia and under $10.00 for

Re: 3400 and DSL - problem solved

2002-10-24 Thread chouston
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. In the end, it was the simplest most direct approach that worked: wiping the HD and reinstalling OS 9.1. Upon startup with the fresh system, I set TCP/IP to Ethernet and Configure using DHCP server (no IP address or anything else), fired up IE 5.1 and I

Re: 3400 and DSL

2002-10-24 Thread Sionnach Aisling
Thinking some more about your problem... I think I remember you saying you had a strange IP address listed? Or am I getting you confused with something else I've been working on ;-) Anyway, if thats the case, then DHCP isn't working for you. Straight off, double check all of the settings on

Re: 3400 and DSL

2002-10-24 Thread Sionnach Aisling
If your IP addy's start with 23.xxx.xxx.xxx, then those are routable. I took a look last night to figure out what the other non-routable address scheme was I couldn't remember and it was 172.16.xxx.xxx, so, basically, three non-routable schemes: 10.xxx.xxx.xxx 172.16.xxx.xxx 192.168.xxx.xxx

Re: 3400 and DSL

2002-10-23 Thread Sionnach Aisling
I agree with everyone that CHris' problem seems to be IP related... in fact, I think I mentioned before that I thought his file sharing was likely happening over Appletalk and hiding the IP issues... Anyway, I read through a lot of the feedback, and it all made sense to me, but something stuck

Re: 3400 and DSL

2002-10-23 Thread chouston
on 23-10-2002 20:14, (PowerBooks) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I'm 90% certain this is software. If you had a hardware issue, the OTP issue would not result as it is. 2. is TCP/IP showing an IP address # ??? What is that #? if it's a 169, you do not have a connection

Re: 3400 and DSL

2002-10-22 Thread chouston
on 19-10-2002 21:32, (PowerBooks) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you ping addresses outside of your LAN from the 3400? Download WhatRoute to try this- and use numeric IP's. Some sites don't respond to a ping so try a couple to avoid misdiagnosis. cnn.com for exmaple ignores ping requests

Re: 3400 and DSL

2002-10-22 Thread Tom Roth
-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3400 and DSL No luck pinging with WhatRoute. Result was Error Opening Transport Endpoints: - 3221 Find out the IP number assigned to the 3400 by your DHCP router and then try and ping it from the G4 or Lombard. Again, TCP

Re: 3400 and DSL

2002-10-22 Thread DavidWedge
Chris, 1. I'm 90% certain this is software. If you had a hardware issue, the OTP issue would not result as it is. 2. is TCP/IP showing an IP address # ??? What is that #? if it's a 169, you do not have a connection (intellectually--though you may have one physically). However, I suspect

Re: 3400 and DSL

2002-10-22 Thread Brian
No luck pinging with WhatRoute. Result was Error Opening Transport Endpoints: - 3221 That sure isn't an error I'd expect; when I've tried to ping on machines that I know have a config problem, Whatroute just give a failed/timeout for each ping attempt (if I tried to ping an IP), or a failed to

Re: 3400 and DSL

2002-10-22 Thread Andrew Kershaw
Result was Error Opening Transport Endpoints: - 3221 FWIW, I get error -3221 when my TCP/IP stack crashes. It typically happens after switching configurartions too many times without restarting, then trying to use DHCP. It's definitely an OT error, though, so like Brian said, I'd check

Re: 3400 and DSL

2002-10-21 Thread Sionnach Aisling
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. Is anyone on the list using a 3400 with DSL, connected via Ethernet but not using any software (like Enternet, etc.)? Chris, Sorry, I won't be much help with your problem, but I can attest that I am running a 3400 through a Cable Modem via Ethernet on OS

Re: 3400 and DSL

2002-10-18 Thread DavidWedge
Chris, You might check to make sure the 3400's Ethernet driver is installed. I don't recall the name of it (somebody help me out), but it's an extension that allows the ethernet to run. Check your TCP/IP to see the IP Address. If it's showing a 169.xxx.xxx.xx number, then your machine

Re: 3400 and DSL

2002-10-18 Thread George Mogiljansky
I use an ethernet connection in two away-from home places. Using location manager, I set up the choices. If you have the free PPP lurking somewhere, make sure your modem selection is set to generic. Make sure AppleTalk is off. Have you pressed the reset button? Cheers George (3400c, 80 MB/180 MHz)

Re: 3400, 8.6 not sleeping

2002-10-13 Thread Greg M
--- sirksd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For several weeks now my PB3400 is not going to sleep at all. The hard drive winds down. The control panel settings are set to go to sleep fully after 5 minutes, both on AC and the battery. Manually with the key strokes I can put it to sleep.

Re: 3400 and DSL

2002-10-04 Thread Tom Roth
Forest University School of Medicine Dept of Biomedical Communications Medical Center Blvd * Winston-Salem, NC 27157 http://www.wfubmc.edu/biomed/ -- From: Sionnach Aisling Subject: Re: 3400 and DSL Well... a couple thoughts. You do have your router set to give

Re: 3400 and TV interference

2002-10-04 Thread Richard Adams
From: Tom Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PowerBooks) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PowerBooks) Subject: Re: 3400 and TV interference Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:32:29 -0400 -- From: Scott Holder Subject:Re: 3400 and TV interference I guess you could wrap

Re: 3400 and TV interference

2002-10-02 Thread Tom Roth
Sounds like it might be electrical interference if it's happening throughout the house. Is the PB3400 being run on the AC adapter? If so, the AC adapter is probably the culprit. Tom Roth * tel 336.716.4493 Wake Forest

Re: 3400 and TV interference

2002-10-02 Thread John Doh
--- Beverly Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, My daughter reports that when she is at her dad's with her 3400, running it, even in the next room, interferes with his TV reception. Does anyone know any reason for this, or a fix? TIA, Beverly You don't mention if his TV

Re: 3400 and TV interference

2002-10-02 Thread Tom Roth
-- From: John Doh Subject: Re: 3400 and TV interference --- Beverly Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, My daughter reports that when she is at her dad's with her 3400, running it, even in the next room, interferes with his TV reception. Does anyone

Re: 3400 and TV interference

2002-10-02 Thread Ed Vaeth \(Surfbest\)
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:27 AM Subject: Re: 3400 and TV interference Sounds like it might be electrical interference if it's happening throughout the house. Is the PB3400 being run on the AC adapter? If so, the AC adapter is probably the culprit. Hi folks, My daughter

Re: 3400 and TV interference

2002-10-02 Thread Beverly Woods
Sorry, forgot to mention this: yes, he uses rabbit ears, and she says the TV is interfered with even when she is running from her battery. Pardon my ignorance here: is RF radio frequency? Anyway it does seem like that would explain it. Beverly You don't mention if his TV is getting its signal

Re: 3400 and TV interference

2002-10-02 Thread Scott Holder
in foil ;) Scott Holder -Original Message- From: PowerBooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Beverly Woods Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 2:06 PM To: PowerBooks Subject: Re: 3400 and TV interference Sorry, forgot to mention this: yes, he uses rabbit ears, and she says the TV

Re: 3400 and TV interference

2002-10-02 Thread Tom Roth
-- From: Scott Holder Subject: Re: 3400 and TV interference I guess you could wrap the 'book in foil ;) I think a Titanium PowerBook would probably work even better. ;) Tom Roth * tel

Re: 3400 and TV interference

2002-10-02 Thread Ed Vaeth \(Surfbest\)
:05 PM Subject: Re: 3400 and TV interference Sorry, forgot to mention this: yes, he uses rabbit ears, and she says the TV is interfered with even when she is running from her battery. Pardon my ignorance here: is RF radio frequency? Anyway it does seem like that would explain it. Beverly

Re: 3400 battery voltage (and Smartdisk)

2002-09-24 Thread chouston
on 23/9/02 23:56, (PowerBooks) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Old Li-Ion batteries will often show a lower voltage than new ones. But, you don't specify if your new batteries are NiMH or Li-Ion. Usually batteries selling for $19 new are NiMH, but they should say on them. Any risk in using

Re: 3400/3500 battery voltage

2002-09-23 Thread Remy Davison
Just wanted to ask if anyone's using the Li-Ion batteries from the 3500 aka Kanga in a 3400? I've heard one report of a 3400 owner with a fried PB, who was told by an Apple tech that he fried his logic board with one of the higher-voltage 3500 batteries. Didn't seem logical to me, as all the

Re: 3400/3500 battery voltage

2002-09-23 Thread Charlie Reyes
Just wanted to ask if anyone's using the Li-Ion batteries from the 3500 aka Kanga in a 3400? I've swapped the two identical (Lilon) batteries - no problems at all. Charlie -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com |

Re: 3400/3500 battery voltage

2002-09-23 Thread John Doh
I've heard one report of a 3400 owner with a fried PB, who was told by an Apple tech that he fried his logic board with one of the higher-voltage 3500 batteries. This is not true. The battery that comes with the 3500 (Li-Ion) is not a higher voltage than the Li-Ion battery for the 3400.

Re: 3400/3500 battery voltage

2002-09-23 Thread John Doh
--- Tom Lisa P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any risk in using the 3500 batteries? Are those voltage ratings okay? No risk, they are OK. Greg What about charging ? I thought Li Ion batts had to be controlled much mroe carefully when charging. This is the only reason I havnt

Re: 3400 Start-up Problems

2002-09-20 Thread Tom Roth
It could be a potential HD problem. However, I'm wondering if the PRAM battery being dead could cause this. Is the unit plugged in the whole time? Is the charger working? It's fairly easy to put a new HD into but you will need the Torx screw driver to get into it. There used to be a web

Re: 3400 OS

2002-09-19 Thread David Deckert
some will say 8.6, others 9.1. If 8.6 does what you want, stay there. I have 9.1 on one w/80MB RAM and it's very nice; seems more responsive and snappy than desktop Macs with similar 40Mhz bus and the like. I swapped out the original 1.3GB HD with a 4GB HD as soon as I got it. I have the

Re: 3400 PRAM batteries

2002-09-18 Thread chouston
on 18/9/02 01:03, (PowerBooks) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: Source for 3400 pram battery MacResQ has them on there clearance page right now for $2.99 Donny Monk at http://www.poerbooksplus.com has them all the time for $12. Aloha, Ken That IS a great price.

Re: 3400 PRAM batteries

2002-09-18 Thread Remy Davison
Subject: Re: Source for 3400 pram battery MacResQ has them on there clearance page right now for $2.99 Donny Monk at http://www.poerbooksplus.com has them all the time for $12. Aloha, Ken That IS a great price. Yep, that's what I paid ($3) for (2) of mine. I still have one.

Re: 3400 users!

2002-09-12 Thread Dan K
for ice cream! On 9/12/02 PowerBooks Tom Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why's that? I've typing this on a 3400 right now and it running OS 9.1. -- From:Dan K Subject: Re: 3400 users! I managed to stuff a FW card into my non-cardbus caged 3400, but it does me little good

Re: 3400 users!

2002-09-12 Thread Scott Holder
Several of the emulators out there include ROM dumping utils. Check out http://basilisk2.cjb.net . You may have to download the distribution to get it, or there might be a standalone download of the rom dumper. It's aimed at 68k ROMs for 68k Emulation, but the last time I tried it, I was able to

Re: 3400 users!

2002-09-12 Thread Tom Lisa P
I'm sure it has something to do with the machine having pre-production ROMs or something. The 'Book is labeled as: Hooper DVT Unit so it's probably got development ROMs. I've tried every OS from 8.0 to 9.2.1 and none are acceptable apparently. The 'Book gives an error while booting that means

Re: 3400 slots

2002-09-11 Thread David Deckert
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 cards as they are shaped slightly different... If you swapped your cage for a cardbus acceptable cage,

Re: 3400 slots

2002-09-11 Thread Gary D. Adams
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

Re: 3400 users!

2002-09-11 Thread Tom Roth
-- From: Dan K Subject: Re: 3400 users! I managed to stuff a FW card into my non-cardbus caged 3400, but it does me little good as the darn PB will run only OS 8.1. Why's that? I've typing this on a 3400 right now and it running OS 9.1

Re: 3400 users!

2002-09-10 Thread Sionnach Aisling
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 cards as they are shaped slightly different... If you swapped your cage for a cardbus acceptable cage,

Re: 3400 users!

2002-09-10 Thread Scott Holder
Hmm, sounds to me like something some careful work with a dremel tool could fix ;) Scott Holder -Original Message- From: PowerBooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sionnach Aisling Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 12:05 PM To: PowerBooks Subject: Re: 3400 users! So buying

Re: 3400 users!

2002-09-10 Thread Dan K
, sounds to me like something some careful work with a dremel tool could fix ;) Scott Holder -Original Message- From: PowerBooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sionnach Aisling Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 12:05 PM To: PowerBooks Subject: Re: 3400 users! So buying a firewire

Re: 3400 overclock?

2002-09-10 Thread Andrew Kershaw
Try here: http://homepage.mac.com/schrier/pb3400.html and here: http://homepage.mac.com/schrier/pb3400_200.html This isn't the same thing as what I have done to the 5300cs (if that's where you got the idea... ;-) This modification is a lot easier to do and will probably work more reliably.

Re: 3400 overclock?

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Lisa P
Try here: http://homepage.mac.com/schrier/pb3400.html and here: http://homepage.mac.com/schrier/pb3400_200.html This isn't the same thing as what I have done to the 5300cs (if that's where you got the idea... ;-) This modification is a lot easier to do and will probably work more reliably.

Re: 3400 users!

2002-09-09 Thread John Webb
on 9/9/02 5:02 AM, John Wood at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just got my first 3400 today. I love it but the cardbus capability is intriguing. I ran tattle tech and under PCI lsots it says they (my PCMCIA slots) are cardbus slots, and under general hardware info it saus (under PC card)

Re: 3400 users!

2002-09-09 Thread Tom Seid
Unfortunately, Tattle Tech often says a machine is cardbussed when indeed it is not...best way is to test an actual card...preferably a firewire card...often USB works for some unknown reason.. on 9/9/02 5:26 PM, John Webb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 9/9/02 5:02 AM, John Wood at [EMAIL

Re: 3400 users!

2002-09-09 Thread John Wood
:51 PM Subject: Re: 3400 users! Unfortunately, Tattle Tech often says a machine is cardbussed when indeed it is not...best way is to test an actual card...preferably a firewire card...often USB works for some unknown reason.. on 9/9/02 5:26 PM, John Webb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 9/9

Re: 3400 users!

2002-09-09 Thread Remy Davison
Tom John Thanks for the replies! I think I'll go and buy a firewire card and see if it works or not. I will keep everyone posted on my success/failure. This has been canvassed a few times here. Try John Frohro's excellent page: http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Cardbus/Cardbus.html USB cards will

Re: 3400 Questions

2002-08-08 Thread Johnson Reavek
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Re: 3400 Questions

2002-08-01 Thread Beverly Woods
First, are you completely certain that it doesn't have one already? Most 3400s do. The port is in the back. Mine showed up without the right software to find or use the modem, but once I got the software right the modem works beautifully. Beverly -- Beverly Woods Visit my Low End Mac column:

Re: 3400 won't boot from OS 8 CD

2002-07-29 Thread Sionnach Aisling
--- Russell Courtenay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am back, yet again. (mailbox overflowed last time...) Now it won't boot to the OS 8 CD (flashing question mark). My first thought on reading this is that you have the OS 8 CD in the drive, but it's trying to boot from the Hard Drive...

Re: 3400 won't boot from OS 8 CD

2002-07-29 Thread Russell Courtenay
Actually, I tried that (well, not the voodoo stuff, but I don't have any SCSI devices connected, so that shouldn't be necessary :{) ). I'm going to bet that is the very dead PRAM battery, I've seen it do some strange things to a Mac. I ordered one, will see what it does before I pester you

Re: 3400 CD-RW drive- mechanisms?

2002-07-16 Thread Walrus Webtech
How about a CD-RW conversion for a 3400? I notice some vendors list it, but they show it as the same as the later PowerBook G3 233, which I am quite sure it is not. -- Russell - Unknown1 - Idaho USA http://idaho.cjb.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] An Idaho railroad news and discussion list. From: joker

Re: 3400 upgrades and new HD Data Transfer

2002-07-08 Thread Sionnach Aisling
--- Jeff Hubatka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IDE controller will only support one drive, so you can't hook both up to your laptop. A SCSI dock to a desktop Mac is your best bet, or hook both machines up via ethernet crossover. I once heard a horror story about trying to do a SCSI dock

Re: 3400 upgrades and new HD Data Transfer

2002-07-08 Thread George Mogiljansky
Yes, it's true. Don't do it or lose your data, etc. George --- Sionnach Aisling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jeff Hubatka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IDE controller will only support one drive, so you can't hook both up to your laptop. A SCSI dock to a desktop Mac is your best bet,

Re: 3400 upgrades and new HD Data Transfer

2002-07-07 Thread Jeff Hubatka
The IDE controller will only support one drive, so you can't hook both up to your laptop. A SCSI dock to a desktop Mac is your best bet, or hook both machines up via ethernet crossover. -- JSH Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 09:45:30 -0600 Subject: 3400 upgrades and new HD Data Transfer From:

Re: 3400 DVD burn?

2002-06-24 Thread Remy Davison
Does the 3400 have the capacity for DVD burns? Theoretically, I'd say yes, if: - it's a SCSI DVD burner (use Toast DVD or Toast Titan). SCSI DVDs cost $$$ though. - if the 3400 has CardBus and can use FW (thus, Toast Titan or Discribe 5). The 3400 runs 8.6-9.1, therefore it can support the

Re: 3400 squeals on sleep!

2002-06-08 Thread Gregory McIntire
After a friend got a new Ti book, he dropped his 3400 off to me (nice guy), but it is not without a problem. About 2-3 minutes after putting it to sleep, it will emit a medium-pitched whine. Real funny thing is, I don't think it's coming from the speakers...it happens even if I put a

Re: 3400 Audio problem?

2002-06-08 Thread Gregory McIntire
I have a PB3400 and the audio from the headphone doesn't work. It will disconnect audio from the speakers, and the sound control panel knows when I plug the headphones in, but there isn't a peep out of them. Is there any history with audio problems with the 3400 and audio? Thanks!!

Re: 3400 Audio problem?

2002-06-08 Thread George Mogiljansky
Wow, Greg, Hotline servers have/had everything! You might be the person to ask - is the Kanga pb 3500 mob cardbus compliant (meaning it can take modern 32 bit pcmcia cards)? Before searching for that upgrade for my 3400... Cheers George --- Gregory McIntire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how to

Re: 3400 HD

2002-05-07 Thread Joseph C. Sis, JR.
Which can be a challenge. I first put the screws on the top and they got in the way of the palm/trackpad assembly. Then on the sides where one of them gets in the way of the center edge near the space bar, there I just removed some of the casing on the palm/trackpad assembly as it does not show

Re: 3400 wireless

2002-04-23 Thread chouston
on 23/4/02 00:16, (PowerBooks) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Searched the archives but am still not clear on this: What 802.11 cards will work in a 3400 and 1400? I was pretty much convinced the Lucent WaveLAN Silver and Gold would do it, but then I saw somebody recently say it was cardbus -

Re: 3400 PRAM battery replacement procedure?

2002-04-19 Thread Russell Idaho - USA
How hard is it to replace the PRAM battery? In my old 180 it was REALLY a pain. The local Mac shop wants $35 for the battery alone!! I might just make one from a couple of watch batteries if I need to! Russ = Russell - Unknown1 - Idaho USA http://idaho.cjb.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] - An Idaho

Re: 3400 expansion bay question

2002-04-07 Thread Thomas Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PowerBooks) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 01:22:01 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PowerBooks) Subject: Re: 3400 expansion bay question Hello all, Is the expansion bay in the 3400c SCSI, IDE/ATA, PCI or what? Can the modules be used as external devices

Re: 3400 Gremilins

2002-03-24 Thread Spry/Fujita
From: Chris Boring [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3400 gremlins! doktorboring wrote: OK, here's the gremlin that's pissing me off right now: If I click on a media file (such as MPEG, mp3, avi, etc.), it does not oen, or even give me a dialogue. However, if I open the application I use to play it

Re: 3400 repairs

2002-03-20 Thread Tom Roth
The 8.6 CD I have has got both an updater and a full installer on it. Running Norton and TechTools is a good idea though as it's always nice to install on a HD that is known good. Tom Roth * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * tel 336.716.4493 Wake

Re: 3400 repairs

2002-03-20 Thread Sionnach Aisling
--- Christopher Morgenstierne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excuse me, but I thought the 8.6 disk was not a full system but - like 8.1 - only an update of 8.5? Anyway, if I were you I would run Norton or Techtool on the 3400 c, either from CD or from in disk mode via SCSI form a desktop Mac

Re: 3400 repairs

2002-03-20 Thread Sionnach Aisling
My CD does indeed have a full restore option as well as a patch option as Tom pointed out earlier. It was also definately a bad hard drive... I hadn't taken it out until now. I knew the drive was bad as soon as I removed it from the case. In all my years of working with laptop hard drives

Re: 3400 repairs

2002-03-19 Thread Tom Roth
-- From: Sionnach Aisling Reply To: PowerBooks Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3400 repairs At this point, unless you guys can think of something I missed, I'm going to assume the laptop probably had a rough trip

Re: 3400 manuals

2001-10-03 Thread cedric
I will check for you, used to own one cedric -Original Message- From: PowerBooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cliff Rediger Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 1:33 AM To: PowerBooks Subject: 3400 manuals Looking for manuals (operating and service) for PB3400 Gamba

Re: 3400 manuals

2001-10-03 Thread Tina Holm
At 1:33 -0700 03/10/01, Cliff Rediger wrote: Looking for manuals (operating and service) for PB3400 Gamba gives me only garbled text. No web page. Any suggestions are appreciated. Drag the links to the desktop or a folder and they will download just fine. If you're using Explorer, you might

Re: 3400 manuals

2001-10-03 Thread Fabian Fang
Cliff Rediger wrote: Looking for manuals (operating and service) for PB3400 Gamba gives me only garbled text. No web page. Any suggestions are appreciated. Several manuals, including the User Guide, can be readily downloaded from the Apple Support website: Go to:

Re: 3400 manuals

2001-10-03 Thread Eugene Martin
I have an Apple Service Manual in PDF format that gives disassemble-reassemble instructions for the 3400 for those with the courage to undertake it. I can't recall what the URL is, but if you can't find it online, I could mail you a copy. Uncompressed it runs to 4.8 MB At 1:33 AM -0700

Re: 3400 manuals

2001-10-03 Thread Judith Broadhurst
]]On Behalf Of cedric Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 10:40 AM To: PowerBooks Subject: Re: 3400 manuals I will check for you, used to own one cedric -Original Message- From: PowerBooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cliff Rediger Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 1:33 AM

Re: 3400 batteries

2001-08-31 Thread chouston
on 30/08/2001 07:36, (PowerBooks) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 9-10 hours of battery life?!?!?!?!?! No offense, but I find this incredibly difficult to believe. -makmac For three brand new batteries (plus a fourth of a certain age, though still working) using Word 5.1a? What's so

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