Hi everyone. I have a Powerbook 2400 with a few problems. I wonder if any of you knowledgeable people can help me out? My machine works pretty well. It has a NUPower G3 upgrade, …

Hi All, I've been delving around in open firmware on my Pismo to see if I can control the internal fan, or at least set a better temp. for it to come on at. In the device tree I'…

If it's spitting out factory-pressed DVDs (I'm taking your "all DVDs" literally), then your drive is likely toast. Dual-laser drives use an IR laser for CDs, and a red one for DVDs…

Just recently, my iBook G4 spits out all DVD's without even reading them. CD's work just fine, and it's a Combo drive, so why would it be doing this? If I put the exact same DVD in…

Am trying to revive a dead 2400c/180 in the next week or three. As detailed on this page, among a handful of others in English, there are some dozen or more fuses in the innards o…

Lucky, you got the cool iMac where it was user serviceable. Click to expand... Yup, mine's the same revision model. I was a bit bummed to find out only weeks after I purchased…

Some simple stuff you can try... When you run the disk repair and verification stuff within disk utilities while booted off the OS X install media, does it catch and repair anythi…

Lucky, you got the cool iMac where it was user serviceable.

Complete specs: 1.8 Ghz PPC G5, 512 MB RAM, 80 gig HD. I've done nothing to it since buying it, except for the guy at the apple store who inserted the extra 256 stick of RAM. @ Qu…

Make sure that it's nothing to do with this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2390 I've already sent in my iMac G5 twice early this year and so far it's running OK. Mine wasn't eve…

I bet your HD is going... FAST... I would go get a replacement. If your iMac doesn't have an iSight it's easy to replace it. If it has an iSight, use my guide...

Some more info would be nice; complete specs, what you've done to it since/before it came slow, etc.

Hey guys. Lately, my iMac has been painstakingly slowwwwwwww (at start up, with basic functions, and online. I guess it's lack of RAM, but I'm not so sure. What do you guys think i…

Very, very rare indeed, so you might reasonably conclude that the weight and stiffness are much more valuable to you in stabilizing your laptop than a tiny, tiny risk of fire from …

Thermal runaway is kind of rare considering how many batteries are out there and how many combusted.

I think the filler is useful to give the laptop increased mechanical stiffness and better balance. And the primary hazard is with charged cells. However uncharged batteries still…

So basically the cells are dead and the memory manager will not let the unit charge at all. There is no problem then using the battery as a space filler in the laptop (which is the…

Thanks for that, Wally. It underscores how much more there is to fear from mistreated lithium cells than from the LHC.

Upon battery insertion the battery manager board, if working, momentarily test charges the cells and looks for approximately 3V= If this is not met charging is disallowed and the…

I recently got in 3 dead wallstreet batteries (2 Apple made and one 3rd party). One of the Apple batteries charges in like a few minutes to 4 lights and will not boot a machine. I …

Now I can't save as QT movie and then try to open it like you did because the QT plugin under all three browsers asks me to pay for QT Pro upgrade, but I did try all three browsers…

Wow, you're having the exact opposite issue from what I'm having; bloody QuickTime, make up your mind what you want to break

I'm thinking the problem is Quicktime plugin being stupid under Safari... My Pismo 10.3.9 400 MHz PowerPC G3 256 MB SDRAM Trying to play your movie on your problem, by viewing…

Whee, I made a video of exactly what's going on here: http://augusf.dyndns.org/public/qtissue.mov If anybody has any ideas, I'd be happy to hear them; it's really rather annoying…

Thanks for the reply, sircabulon. I think you're right - the card is toast. I tried it again in the 66MHz slot, and this time I got some video, but it was the same corrupted video…