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Need some help with a Kanga — #6

Sorry, I missed the Kanga part somehow and had it in my head that it was a 3400c. Still, for $12 you can't go far wrong. Click to expand... For almost all intents and purposes …
68kMLA Hardware by MattB Sat, 16 Jan 2010 - 23:41

Need some help with a Kanga — #5

Sorry, I missed the Kanga part somehow and had it in my head that it was a 3400c. Still, for $12 you can't go far wrong.
68kMLA Hardware by beachycove Sat, 16 Jan 2010 - 23:11

Need some help with a Kanga — #4

It's been left plugged in for several days and exhibits the same behavior (and consistently loses date/time settings, which is pretty much a guaranteed sign of PRAM battery failure…
68kMLA Hardware by MattB Sat, 16 Jan 2010 - 22:43

Need some help with a Kanga — #3

Erratic and observable power-related behaviour is characteristic of backup battery failure in nearly every single iteration of the PowerBooks, though the early ones (1xx series) se…
68kMLA Hardware by beachycove Sat, 16 Jan 2010 - 22:36

Need some help with a Kanga — #2

One more problem...the battery holds a good charge, but the machine won't boot from it after sitting unplugged for a half hour. However it will boot from the battery if I unplug th…
68kMLA Hardware by MattB Sat, 16 Jan 2010 - 18:28

Need some help with a Kanga — #1

I've got a Kanga G3 Powerbook which I picked up recently for essentially nothing. It's running 9.1 and its RAM is maxed out. The battery even holds a 2+ hour charge. I've got it co…
68kMLA Hardware by MattB Sat, 16 Jan 2010 - 17:15

Portable woes. — #6

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68kMLA Hardware by Trash80toHP_Mini Sat, 16 Jan 2010 - 03:32

Portable woes. — #5

Do you reset the power manager after plugging the Portable in (press the interrupt and reset buttons together)? After it's had all power removed, my backlit Portable always requir…
68kMLA Hardware by shred Sat, 16 Jan 2010 - 00:39

Portable woes. — #4

if the main battery is so shot its shorted out you could be driving the supply into protection mode, same thing happens with my 386 laptop, with the battery in it will try to fire,…
68kMLA Hardware by Trash80toHP_Mini Fri, 15 Jan 2010 - 19:35

asking for opinion: WGS 8150 vs. Radius 81/110 — #9

I have started the upgrade, almost finished but ran into a snag. The one thing I have not tried is installing a PDS terminator in the G3 card. The directions say nothing about t…
68kMLA Hardware by Trash80toHP_Mini Fri, 15 Jan 2010 - 19:17

asking for opinion: WGS 8150 vs. Radius 81/110 — #8

I have started the upgrade, almost finished but ran into a snag. I can not get it to recognize the G3 card and when installed it will only startup with extensions off. The card i…
68kMLA Hardware by rbbrchckn Fri, 15 Jan 2010 - 18:15

Portable woes. — #3

if the main battery is so shot its shorted out you could be driving the supply into protection mode, same thing happens with my 386 laptop, with the battery in it will try to fire,…
68kMLA Hardware by Anonymous Freak Fri, 15 Jan 2010 - 16:00

Portable woes. — #2

if the main battery is so shot its shorted out you could be driving the supply into protection mode, same thing happens with my 386 laptop, with the battery in it will try to fire,…
68kMLA Hardware by Osgeld Fri, 15 Jan 2010 - 15:19

Portable woes. — #1

Last night, I decided to try recovering my Portable (Backlit.) Yes, the main battery is beyond hope, so I am using a high-power PowerBook 100-series brick. My symptoms are that i…
68kMLA Hardware by Anonymous Freak Fri, 15 Jan 2010 - 14:57

the 7600 is kicking $$%^% — #21

Hmm. I was about to suggest picking up this card, when I read the following in the description: Internal Drives Supported Supports any ATA/IDE fixed media hard drive includ…
68kMLA Hardware by Bunsen Fri, 15 Jan 2010 - 02:02

the 7600 is kicking $$%^% — #19

so at this point whats your options 1) internal drive + controller card 2) firewire drive, which is proving hard to find without a ridiculous price 3) usb2.0 drive + controller c…
68kMLA Hardware by trag Fri, 15 Jan 2010 - 00:33

French Foreign Conquest :: Over 150 Items! — #3

A2-FS1 Flight Simulator manual Click to expand... Oh, man! Don't tell me you got the manual but not the disk?!? Click to expand... It would seem so. It was in a plastic ba…
68kMLA Development by Dog Cow Thu, 14 Jan 2010 - 23:34

French Foreign Conquest :: Over 150 Items! — #1

This is certainly one way to kick off the new year: with a French Foreign Mega-Conquest. Here's the story. On December 24, 2009, I left the United States to visit my grandparents …
68kMLA Development by Dog Cow Thu, 14 Jan 2010 - 22:39
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