Small score: PB100

#1 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 - 01:51 68kMLA

Got a PB 100 today, now I have a use for the 20 pin external floppy I got with another powerbook!

#2 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 - 04:35 68kMLA

Hey, that's great. Love to see these still working. Is the screen ok and all?

#3 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 - 01:21 68kMLA

The screen works, the HD is trying to go, the floppy almost makes it go, I get a happy mac for a short bit, then it ejects the disk and goes back to the hd again. It WILL live a full life again!!

#4 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 - 05:01 68kMLA

I wish you good luck with recovering the PB100. The only one I have owned had the lit up but blank screen issue. Eventually i gave it away and if I was smart I would have kept the 100MB SCSI hard drive that came with it. Oh well.

#5 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 - 05:54 68kMLA

If the HD is struggling to spin, it usually requires a firm spanking/slap to get it up ... if you know what I mean

But seriously, if not turned on for a while I've found many older 2.5" SCSI drives need to be gently dropped whilst on to get them to spin. It's not going to help the data, but if you have nothing to lose ...

JB

#6 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 - 18:23 68kMLA

I'll most likely do that as soon as I get brave enough to take the bad boy apart 8-o If the slap trick doesn't work, something else may have to be a donor xx(

#7 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 - 19:37 68kMLA

Slapping and spanking never helped me much with the BabyPB, what I always did when I had intermittent stiction problems with one of them was to set it up on a hard surface, (back legs extended) lift the front up by about 1 1/2" . . . [}

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. . . it never hurt mine, but YMMV! [

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#8 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 - 21:53 68kMLA

I'll try that tonight and see if it helps any. Maybe it will stop chirring and fire up.

#9 Fri, 5 Mar 2010 - 04:13 68kMLA

Well, spanking it, dropping it and tapping it gently with a sledgehammer didn't help. Salvation came in the form of a PB160 with a bad screen that generously donated

its hard drive. The little bugger had actually been upgraded with the 6 Meg RAM card

. It is now living with 7.5.5 for the moment.