I have many friends with G3 powerbooks (from 99 to pismo), myself included (pismo), and I wont say they all have that problem 'cause Im not shure, but I would make that affirmantio…

After having my Powerbook for about 6 weeks, the dreaded key marks are showing up on my screen. I just got off the phone with Apple, and they gave me the "oil from your fingers... …

I have had a PowerBook 520c and PowerBook 540c both worked great and just won't die. They are small and yet big enough to work on. They are light but they don't feel cheaply lig…

Is there a way to upgrade the video chip in this machine?

I'm sure it's possible with hours and hours of soldering and hacking work. I would say it's impossible, but everything's possible. In other words, the task is impossible. http://…

The DVD kit uses a hardware processor on a PC card, so I'd guess that you can do some video off of the motherboard. As far as replacing the onboard processor, forget it.

I am ordering a $290 18GB IBM 2.5" HD to replace my original 3GB drive. Everyone wants $60 less than MCE for the same drive. Actually I suspect the MCE drive is a Toshiba by the sp…

I used to work for a company with over 3000 of these things, so I got familiar with the process. Unfortunately I haven't done it in a long time, so I'm a little fuzzy on the detail…

You can download the full tech manual in pdf format from this site: http://download.info.apple.com/Apple...k_3400c.g3.pdf It has complete instructions for your hd replacement.

The PB3400 won't utilize any storage beyond 3 GB, even on a much larger drive. Quote: Originally posted by ThermoNuclear: I am ordering a $290 18GB IBM 2.5" HD to repla…

Apple Spec for PB 3400: "Minimum Internal HD Size: 3GB" http://www.info.apple.com/info.apple...ec.taf?RID=239

We have a PB-3400 that is still chugging along just fine! It has been updated with a 6 GB HD, max RAM and passed along in the company as senior people get new Pismos! Word of caut…

This isn't true. I bought a 4 GB drive for mine a couple of years ago (from MCE), and they told me that the only problem with larger hard drives for the 3400 is that if they're abo…

Oh, by the way, our PB-3400 was one of the early model PB-3400/200c with the active matrix display and the 6x CD-ROM. When we did the update, we added 128 MB of RAM (total now 144 …

Greg2384828245, maybe I'm confused about what "SCSI Disk Mode" is? We used to routinely atach our PB-3400 to a desk top PM-8500 and it would show up on the 8500's desktop as an ext…

I've got the PB3400(Hooper) take apart tech doc. Send me an email if you want it. Rodentia@mac.com

Do you know the url for full tech manuals for the PowerBook G3 bronze keyboard and FireWire models? I was unable to directly access the service manuals directory. Quote: …

Start here. Pick the manual you need. http://www.accesscom.com/~gamba/manuals.html (Note: Spaces in the URL noted before are actually underscore characters.) [This message has …

SCSI Disk Mode is what you did with your 8500. You hook up the PB3400 to the 8500 with a SCSI cable and a special SCSI connector on the 3400, and it shows up as an external HD. Que…

Hi, I have a 3400c/200 -- I replaced last october the internal 2Gb hd with a IBM Travelstar 8.1Gb: no problems at all! (I have some partitions, LinuxPPC and MacOS); I _did_ SCSI D…

Greg2384828245, We could NOT use the drive in SCSI Disk Mode. Instead, we had to use an Ethernet Crossover cable and set up a "Mini-LAN". Another option was to set up an IR connec…

Said earlier: "Do you know the url for full tech manuals for the PowerBook G3 bronze keyboard and FireWire models?" reply was: "Start here. Pick the manual you need. http://www.a…

Just installed a Travelstar 6GB in 1400. I think if you partition you can still use the PB in SCSI disk mode. Won't get to try it here for a week or so. Maybe there were problems…

I'm curious to know if there is a PCMCIA card to Firewire product. Maybe I was dreaming, but I thought I saw one in a PC catalog. Any ideas?

Ratoc, Newer Technologies and a few other companies make firewire PCMCIA cards. I don't know if you'll have to upgrade the cardbus to except 32-bit cards though.