^^ I was referring to the ring of light (provided by LEDs) on the power plug. Anywho, yeah, I'm actually using one of them now. It's INSANELY fast. For some reason, Apple updated …

I have already resert PRAM NVRAM. It did not seem to do anything? Click to expand... Something else is going wrong here. Maybe a faulty video card? Seems strange though, since …

Hi thanks for the advice It is a 12" PowerBook running Panther I have already resert PRAM NVRAM. It did not seem to do anything? How do I boot in to Target Mode and what is Targ…

Hi Luke, Man, this is a strange one. I had never heard of such a thing. Now, I just looked and it seems there's quite some threads about similar issues on the Apple Support forum …

Grab both ends, and twist hard, back and forth, around the long axis. Repeat as necessary. The two halves will snap apart. Click to expand... Thanks.. to my surprise, that actu…

Hi I have a problem with my PowerBook It boots to BSD (Command Line Interface) instead of OS X (GUI Aqua) This Video shows more http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_m2oKfxF3fI Please…

What LEDs? I can't see any LEDs on my 12" AlBook.

Nice work, I always like to hear of something coming from faulty Macs Build up a good one using the best condition parts for yourself, and sell the other on eBay as "faulty". …

Being bored and crazy (and maybe slightly drunk...), I lurked on eBay for a while before purchasing a set of dead 1.67GHz 15" AlBooks, knowing that both are dead and battery-less. …

Grab both ends, and twist hard, back and forth, around the long axis. Repeat as necessary. The two halves will snap apart.

I also have some dead iBook clamshell batteries. I have tried to figure out how to take them apart, but so far no luck. I peeled the stickers off each side and I can see the cell…

I figured it wasn't a good idea, but it's always nice to have confirmation. If money wasn't so tight right now, I'd have a lot more options... but since it is, I'll just have to h…

....in my kitchen having a glass of chocolate milk Click to expand... so that was the magic ingredient.

Hey I would be glad to! I installed 8.1 again, but this time I formatted the Hard drive as Mac OS Standard. Then I install a minimal 8.1. I boot into that and put my 7.6 CD into th…

Thank you so much! I now have a working OS 7.6 system Click to expand... (a) Can you tell us how you got out of your pickle? It would be nice to know what the problem really wa…

Thank you so much! I now have a working OS 7.6 system

2) Booted from 8.1 CD, installed 8.1 Click to expand... Good, you have a working state you can get back to. Put this back on so you know you having a working system and can the…

Okay, 1) Had 9.1 on it. 2) Booted from 8.1 CD, installed 8.1 3) On mac mini made 7.6 CD. 4) Installed 7.6 from 8.1 5) Went to boot, says " Cannot use this system disk on this …

I'm lost. I can't work out what you have done and what you are trying to do. What was 8.1 running on? Normally to install an OS you have to have booted from a different device t…

I can view the files on my Mac mini. And I've booted (recently) 8.1 and had that install, but I installed 7.6 from the 8.1 install and it says on boot " This system disk cannot be …

Not all OS disks are bootable. 1. can you view the contents on a another mac? 2. can you boot the 1400 with a disk tools disk?

Hello all, I have a .toast file with Mac OS 7.6 on it. I know the file works because it was tested before being sent to me. I burn it in Toast ( 7.1 ) and go to boot up my 1400, I …

My B&W gave me fits until I did a firmware update on it. I went from 8.6 to 9.2 to 10.4 http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3841731 The Revision 1 B&a…

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of. I do hope it's the RAM, will try with some from my G4 later. Fucks me right off too, as I scrounged this last week and there was another where I…

^^sounds like a hardware rather then software problem.