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…

Nice score, if anything the passive matrix screen in PB150's isn't bad. The "melting plastic" would be what's left of the worn out case feet I've come across a few PBs with th…

Not that I've ever seen a Mac in Calvin and Hobbes.

It sounds like you have a SCSI ID issue (assuming I've interpreted what you said properly). If that's the case, you can usually fix it by changing 3 jumpers on the back of the har…

I got an 840av... swapped bits from an old one and got it working... But now it's not working, well it mostly is... I seem to have upset the scsi gods. It was using the hard dri…

I'm not sure. But it seemed fitting at the time.

Uh, Christopher, what does that have to do with PowerBooks running in "lid closed" mode?

After getting some replies for old iMacs (Which I have no use for. Feel free to take them, post to FreeCycle NYC) I finally got an interesting reply. A Woman asked if I took lap…

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Many of the PPC PowerBooks has "lid closed mode" officially supported. The consumer-oriented iBooks did not officially support it; but the entire Intel line of MacBooks does.

Well, I've ran my Pismo like this for the entire week so far and no problems have come up. I can use OS9 and OSX Tiger without a glitch and no overheat issues, either. I have an …

With all the issues they had, even back when they were new, I'd imagine that a working 1710 series display would be rather hard to find nowadays.

Oh man... I had that monitor for years until it went *pop* one day and never worked again. It was a BEAST to move around for LAN parties & whatnot, but I LOVED that monitor…