Huh? Are you talking about a 10.1" HP Mini NetBook or an HP NoteBook? Click to expand... Apparently the full title is "HP Mini 2140 Notebook PC ". It has an Atom, real hardisk,…

here's the compatible systems. / 350MHz or a 400MHz / 500MHz or faster Click to expand... Wait - what about the Summer 2000 iMac DV+ 450MHz? Which side of the line does that f…

You might find my travails with a 450MHz slottie informative. availability of iMac G3's in Melbourne Click to expand... is indeed pretty decent, especially if you look …

I'd hope to think the availability of iMac G3's in Melbourne would be otherwise quite good. Even if you can pick up a cheap iMac G3, you could transplant the case plastics and the …

This sounds to me like the power supply is the problem. When you take the CRT out of the work load, the "FLUP" sound was much faster, which tells me to check for proper voltage go…

4) Dealing with an "unsupported" port of a new-to-me OS to PPC w/a klugeware, patch on a hack on a . . . . Click to expand... It's not quite as dire as all that. "Unsuppor…

Nice haul. Was that a car boot sale or something? It's hell here trying to get any old stuff. If you go to the vintage mac section on ebay.ie and filter the results to "Ireland onl…

Huh? Are you talking about a 10.1" HP Mini NetBook or an HP NoteBook? Click to expand... Apparently the full title is "HP Mini 2140 Notebook PC ". It has an Atom, real hardisk,…

iMac600, This sounds to me like the power supply is the problem. When you take the CRT out of the work load, the "FLUP" sound was much faster, which tells me to check for proper …

Very nice job, 4season! Be proud of the success you have accomplished. Just keep practicing with those type of skills and they will get you someplace in life. I guess that Class…

WHY????? Wasn't it slow enough for you under XPHome3? Click to expand... It never ran XP Home, it came with XP Pro ( and Vista Basic ). It's now XP Pro SP3. Click to expand.…

WHY????? Wasn't it slow enough for you under XPHome3? Click to expand... It never ran XP Home, it came with XP Pro ( and Vista Basic ). It's now XP Pro SP3.

I have just built my "HP Mini 2140" a month ago from scratch. I used the XP Pro SP2 install disk plus the drivers from the additional HP application disk. No real problems except h…

1) I just spent over a week wrasslin' with the XPHome3 recovery CD and never did get that P.O.S. to reinstall on HP_Mini. Click to expand... I have just built my "HP Mini 2140"…

Ah, well, perhaps it will be of use to someone else then. The PLW models do require much maintenance. I find I need to have several donor units on hand just to keep several print…

It's simple really: 1) I just spent over a week wrasslin' with the XPHome3 recovery CD and never did get that P.O.S. to reinstall on HP_Mini. 2) The ubuntu NetBook Remix install …

Thanks wally. I'm afraid your valuable info is a little late - the printer was dumped yesterday. Sad, but there was little else I could do with it. After messing with it I was plan…

Some problems with the Personal Laserwriter series printers may be resolved by the following: General preventative maintenance on a newly acquired vintage PLW printer: 1. Pull t…

MacGeek: Thanks! But I have a server. When I get back to NYC I'll image em.

Thanks for the info.Here are the floppies that came with it. I will make images of them. "Macintosh Basics" Says "Start up from this disc" "Apple Network product installer" "Mac…

If you want to try replacing the PAV board, I've got a good one here that would go pretty cheaply. Shipping to Australia would be steep though.

Why don't you try to fix it? The iMac are very easy to fix. Do you have an idea of what is wrong with it? Don't scrap it, it may just be the PAV board.

Nah, they were all grey bits, there was one bit of black plastic, still, I'm happy to have pulled the RAM out of it, 2x256MB sticks, wow. Dunno what to do with the rest of it. iM…

Thanks for the info. Here are the floppies that came with it. I will make images of them. "Macintosh Basics" Says "Start up from this disc" "Apple Network product installer" "M…

Also note, with the CRT disconnected, it "flups" much faster, but still doesn't power up. I think this isolates the issue to the analog board.