So, a few days ago, my PowerBook G4 started acting funny, not wanting to sleep, freezing on waking from sleep, etc. Then finally, it locked up during the boot sequence and never ca…

Where did you get the bulb?

I thought you meant, that the Battery Reset was not written for the Clamshell. Excuse me while I go shoot myself.

That battery reset actually is written for the clamshell as well. But thats the only iBook compatible. Click to expand... I have no idea what you're saying. The OP was talking …

In the hacks section of applefritter there is a guy who put an iMac into a 21" monitor. I had forgotten all about it untill this thread!

My thoughts exactly. I had Leopard on my dual 450 G4 with 1.12GB of ram and the Radeon 7000, it was alright, but it gets annoying after a while. Leopard seems to chew on hard drive…

Fabulous. I have a mac display to VGA adapter sitting here as we speak. So I could use a standard display.

That battery reset actually is written for the clamshell as well. But thats the only iBook compatible.

The only thing is, if you're using an old Apple display, the monitor must be a multisync monitor, ie: a Multiple Scan or AppleVision Display. If you're using a third party SVGA mo…

Tried it on a G4 450 with PCI Radeon Mac Edition + 1GB RAM. It ran like an absolute dog compared to 10.4. It's not especially fast on my 1.33 Ghz G4 and that's way above the spec…

AFAIK, there is no reset app on the clamshell -- the one that I'm familiar with works with the earlier G3 powerbooks. On the clamshell, only an extension gets installed, and it's …

I have been considering Leopard on my 800mhz TiBook and my wife's dual 500 G4. The dual 500 has a PCI 32mb radeon 7000 in it and 1.25 gigs of ram. The TiBook has 768mb of ram, thou…

Ah, that would be my bad. You can hook one of the older Apple monitors up to that port I think, but don't quote me on that. Click to expand... Yes you can. The port is the old …

Folks, I have the same problem as Didius, but different. Couple of months ago, I rescued a 'dead' iBook (G3/300) at an AUSOM meeting, I was told by the person that gave it to me,…

If it's spitting out factory-pressed DVDs (I'm taking your "all DVDs" literally), then your drive is likely toast. Dual-laser drives use an IR laser for CDs, and a red one for DVDs…

Just recently, my iBook G4 spits out all DVD's without even reading them. CD's work just fine, and it's a Combo drive, so why would it be doing this? If I put the exact same DVD in…

It was a very good deal. My Pismo is so much brighter now! It also was becoming a bit pink in the left corner which was a sign that it maybe wouldn't have lasted a whole lot long…

Well done -- congratulations! As you noted, it's not so much hard as it is tedious, with lots of little steps along the way. But it's well worth doing, given that a $10 tube can re…

SUCCESS! It was a tricky thing to do, but everything worked fine. I agree that you should work slowly and carefully. I managed to not break either bulb (old & new). The…

If you have trouble starting it up in the future, try the reset button on the back. I've had to prod that a couple of times to get my Lombard to wake up.

Good info there tomlee59. I got two hours of solid websurfing out of my $20 as-is Lombard battery last night on my first test run, but it went dead with no warning and the battery…

Just work slowly and carefully, and you'll be fine. Never force anything, don't bend the tube. It's not super-fragile, but do be careful. It can actually flex a bit, so no need to …

I ordered the bulb and it came today. I don't really have any good instructions how to do this but I think I'll have a stab at it. Does anyone have any last-minute recommendation…

It lives! { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Ple…

the battery needs to be fully charged, then discharged to shutdown, a couple of times. Click to expand... I have done this once, but I'll try it a couple more times. It seems …