couldn't you change the cable for the drive or try a different drive? Click to expand... no part of the ittybitty connectors solderd to the pcb of the power lead to the d…

couldn't you change the cable for the drive or try a different drive?

i have bene inside a imac G4 more times then i care to remember and find them rather easy much easier to take apart then this monster i'd choose a imac G4 any time of the d…

just out of curiosity i know you have been inside a emac this guid going at it the right way or what ? http://www.wilko.com/emac/ Click to expand... Yup! That's about i…

unfortunaly fire wire target disk doesnt work my ibook did not pick up on the emac my wallstreet is not firewire equipped and im not sure if my intel imac could be arsed to …

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firewire target mode i havent even tought about that mostly because i never used any firewire hardware in my life you dont happen to have a link to a guide do you ? my iboo…

it's rather easy to replace the drive. It's much like the tray-loading iMac. All the actual computer components are on a tray that when you take the screws out of it, it just com…

now this ere emac i got my hands on has a problem ( doesnt it always ?) it works fine other for the fact that it spits out any cd i put in there orginal or cd-r dvd or a…

It will in OSX, but OS9 requires it for audio as Franklinstein said. I think it gives some sort of error about audio hardware on boot, but I can't remember for sure.

I've never tried, honestly. Probably because I always wanted it to have one, usually the Wings card. Anyway, the way those things are designed, the Personality Card slot is essent…

Will a beige g3 mobo run without a personality card installed?

It's fixed. I had to reset the Open Firmware password, then go to single-user mode and force a new admin account to be created. Although they were given a set of Mac OS X 10.4.10…

I received a MacBook to repair from a customer. Being a used laptop, it had the password from the previous owner still on the unit. So far I have tried going into single-user mod…

Popped the bugger out, shot it with compressed air, shot a little air inside the machine, popped out the tray and gently sprayed in there a bit, popped it back in, and boom! That …

Mind sharing the technics?

Nevermind, some 'persuasive techniques' managed to get it working fine

Well, I've found issue number two; the pismo seems to be fine with DVDs, but it refuses to do anything with CDs, kinda obliterating my hopes of Jaguar. Has anybody experienced one …

Curses, I was hoping to avoid that... Anybody know a good source for pismo batteries?

You have taken all of the normal steps to revive a dead battery. Regrettably, it is no more. It is pining for the fjords. It is an ex-battery. Re-celling a lithium-ion battery is …

LiIons are a pain. I've got some for my 3400 and 2400 that still hold at least an hour's charge, and several for Lombards/Pismos/iBooks that are dead as hell. I'm pretty sure that…

I just got myself a Pismo (poke around conquests ), and my only problem with it is that the battery is flat as a board. It shows up as empty and fully charged; if I pull it out …

Read the help doc and found out that when the vga monitor is hooked up a to a monitor, a dialog box shows up in the monitor and sound panel. The powerbook is not seeing the monitor…

Just one thing - remember that VGA port on the 3400 only allows mirroring - you cannot run an extended desktop on any PowerBook 3400.

Additionally, sometimes turning the machine on at an angle and holding down the trackpad button is required for a 'gravity assist'.