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.

Off-hand, an immediate suggestion is to take in Franklinstein's comment about Royal VRMs in the Beige DT and MT (in your other recent post, about ZIF CPUs). Beyond that, some test…

It's been a long, long drought since ic-china had much in the way of 500MHz ZIF cards, and even now it is only the 750s rather than 7400s. Grab while the skips/dumpsters of the wo…

That's an awesome tip - thanks! That being said, I'm about to put down $21 for this item: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230304040895 ...and I though…

Hi guys, As some of you will already know, I'm currently having fun restoring a thrift-store-salvaged Beige G3 Tower - I've successfully upgraded the RAM, created an Admin account…

Well, really, I suppose the question should be this. "Is Powerbook Guy's price of $99USD a ripoff?"

www.buy.com has the wang model of 6200, that is where i bought mine from buy.com xfx 6200 wang that is where i bought mine from. as heavymetal4god said it could be bad nvram set…

Would be nice to run OS/X - sadly 64mb of ram won't be a pleasant experience :'( or maybe it won't install. Got it running with the 40GB drive - its running very nicely on OS …

Your talking about if he wanted to install OS X. OS 9 or 8 don't have the 8GB partition limitation.

Oops! The disk image for King's Quest disk 1 came back with errors & ADTPRO labels the disk as being "I/O Errors." I have a utility that will try to get bad blocks out on m…

On the tray loaders the two limitations are that the OS has to be on the first partition which is 8gb or less, the second is the mac can't recognize the full capacity of a HD if it…

You might want to check the jumpers - I find that with my iMac, the HDD must be set to Master or Single drive, otherwise I can't boot from the drive.

It should boot ok as blixanz says, the OS needs to be on the first partition of the drive which must be under 8GB or your system will become very ubnstable. Try installing the dri…

That is only the case when installing OS X. It should boot. Are you booting from a install CD?