I've made some progress! Well, I cant get the internal scsi, but I have an external cd-r and an external hard drive & am booting os 8 from the external hard drive.... but …

That model can display to a VGA monitor, with a DVI-to-VGA adapter (which was included originally; but if you got yours used, it's understandable if you didn't get it; and if you g…

Ive re-celled quite a few batteries in my time, but when it comes to laptop batteries id just rather get a gneric brand replacement or at least see how much a place like batteries …

Sure thing. I guess I'll just run it with power... Ok and also, The floppy drive makes discs spring back out. They bounce out like if they were spring loaded. Any ideas? Oh and I…

Whatever you do, do NOT put cells from ANY iBook battery into the PowerBook 150 battery. An iBook battery, like just about all laptop batteries made in the last 10 years, uses Lith…

The funky ghosting and fadedness point to hardware, not software. If you plug it in to an external monitor, does it work? Click to expand... I haven't a clue. I don't have an e…

The sonnet was the root of all the issues. I need a L2 Cache DIMMM then to make this mac usable.

Cool, Pics will be up later today? Anyone know how to Re-Cell a battery? I have a few old iBook ice Batteries that I can kill.

I reinstalled the driver for ATi, it takes Mac OS a decade to boot, and finder hangs. Its on a 400mhz G3, it should be fast! The sonnet accelerator is one of the worst boards I ha…

Alright, thanks a lot! ;D

Well, I have an overupgraded Powermac 7200, with G3 Card, 208mb RAM, ATi Rage VR, and Gigiabit Ethernet. The ATi Card Driver was terrible. It would cause the system to lag, hang, a…

The "melting plastic" would be what's left of the worn out case feet I've come across a few PBs with this lately. Click to expand... Its a common issue with a lot of those …

The funky ghosting and fadedness point to hardware, not software. If you plug it in to an external monitor, does it work? Click to expand... I haven't a clue. I don't have an e…

The funky ghosting and fadedness point to hardware, not software. If you plug it in to an external monitor, does it work?

You need Trackpad Climate Control. Works wonders.

Alright, so I have a nice PowerBook Duo 2300c here with OS 8.1 and 12 MB of RAM, and for my first Duo, I really like it. It does have one issue though; the trackpad acts up, so the…

The hinges having play can be fixed by tightening the screws attaching the hinge to the case. (If it isnt the spring in the hinge.)

Wow thats really strange. Why don't they dry up? what happened to them? Freecycle is pretty awesome IMO. Does anyone know about how to fix the play that the hinges have? And ano…

WTF. 8-o

Weird - seems like a video chipset issue, or a video driver issue.

I got a free PB150 off Freecycle last year. Definitely remove the rest of the rubber feet - they never harden up again and they're sticky and disgusting. It takes a number of Q-Tip…

Cool thanks for the info Byrd! Will these ever dry? Or should I just scrape it all off?

but it's just so bizzare cos the computer will see the cd rom, but not the hard drives... Click to expand... Get "SCSI Probe" onto the case. It will tell you exactly what the c…

I got the 840av working and had two hard drives... a faithfull 4.3 gig and a 1.2 Gb. But the smaller drive kept on being there one time, but then not being seen the next. So I ass…

My PowerBook has done this for a loooong time now, but only tonight have I managed to snap some clear shots of this phenomena occuring. Wake the machine from sleep sometimes and ev…