Thanks. I'll look into that. Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:10 am ... Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:49 am Anybody. Click to expand... Not big on the ole patience there, huh…

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:10 am ... Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:49 am Anybody. Click to expand... Not big on the ole patience there, huh? First thing to check inside would…

Are you going to offer backlight replacement service now?

There is no magic bullet but persistence, and even that will fail if the PB is unserviceable. Check the AC adapter, for output voltage and temperature, after 5min and 1hr. Is it …

Anybody.

Installed new pram battery as I say on another thread, and these replacement cells seem to work fine, though to be honest, not having a multimeter, I haven't tested the charge prop…

When I powered down for the final time, the battery still had well over 30% charge and it was no more than an hour later when I attempted and failed to boot it up again. I reset t…

There are quite a few possibilities. Just for one, the battery was barely-charged, and the presence of the CD-ROM drive (which is constantly polled by the system 'in case' there i…

I picked up a 3400 on eBay a week or two ago. It was sold w/o an ac adapter but w/ a charged battery. When it arrived, I played with it a bit, booting it up on two occasions. Aft…

I'm about to put down $21 for this item: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230304040895 Click to expand... So buy it already! [] ]'>

Expansion chassis are very uncommon. At least one company, possibly Magma, advertised one for the SE and Portable, so anything post SE/II was expandable via an external box. Assumi…

Not really, but you'll have to go a ways below $99 to sell it on ebay vs him selling it on his site. They can be hard to find since most of the 3400cs on ebay these days seem to b…

having that Rage Pro 128 isnt helping things either. i would at least recomend a geforce 2 card and above, but you will still be pushing it. but since that has AGP 2x a 6200 Wang A…

The problem here is you are using a new OS with high overheads on a very old CPU and clapped out graphics card. Tiger should give you a much smoother ride.

The Magma expansion chassis was compatible with any Mac with a PCMCIA or PCI slot. In the old days, I believe they made Nubus expansion chassis too.

[] ]'> Leopard has no grafics acceleration for that card. That's all. Put another compatible card in the sawtooth and you'll be more happy with it. Click to expand... …

Magma answered my questions...nifty useful tools!

So those PCI-PCI expansion boxes are common? Was the 3400 the only Powerbook that was capable of such an expansion option? This is friggin' awesome!

Magma made one. I've seen things about them online like this. They show up on ebay occasionally. The PCI-PCI expansion boxes seem more common.

Didn't know where to file this under but I was thinking about the PB 3400c... Back in it's day it was an industrial beast (touted the "fastest" laptop on the planet with a big pri…

... noting of course that in return for the bargain price, you accept the risk that it's DOA. Click to expand... Sixteen purchases from this seller, all but one ZIF cards, and …

I use a piece of folded paperboard that fits VERY snugly against the flat side of the battery and the case stiffener where the original gasket would've gone. It requires a bit of e…

when the computer gets bumped it sometimes turns off when running on a battery, according to the repair manual, it needs a foam gasket to keep it in tighter. This thing's from 1997…

The only relevant tip would be that you have to configure the jumper block yourself to run the CPU at 500 MHz (or as near as you can get it by multiplying 66 MHz). Apart from that…

Am I just pushing that slow internal bus further than it was meant to go? Click to expand... Sounds like a power/heating issue.