Not trying to referee or anything, but sometimes a day isn't enough, especially when dealing with temperamental old hardware. Also, our Army has only about 1000 members, and not a…

That's interesting. There were no jumpers on the drive, were there? Sometimes drive manufacturers or resellers will ship drives with jumpers installed, as some computers need to ha…

Man, you two must be brothers or something... He specifically bolded times, as if to say that I posted the messages 39 minutes apart, ignoring the date. If bumping a thread in th…

Are you going to offer backlight replacement service now? Click to expand... I sure could in the form of advice!

Uh... Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:10 am... Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:49 am Click to expand... Click to expand... You have just elegantly underlined Bunsen's observation…

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.

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'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.

... 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…

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…