Can you hear the hard drive in your iBook running? Wait, thats a stupid question... Click to expand... Yup

All Great info thanks.

I love my 5300 and I would be very interested if the price were say $50. Otherwise, mine works fine. I'd mainly be picking it up for extra parts, and everything else it shipped wit…

Can you hear the hard drive in your iBook running? Wait, thats a stupid question...

Update. Got OS X Server 10.1 on my Beige G3, and now in ASP, it shows "Target Disk" on the FireWire Bus. However, no disk appears on desktop.

There is one other (and cheaper) way of enabling DVD playback on these machines - I have no idea if it would help with AVI files from the HD though. There's a PC Card (PCMCIA/Card…

The video card doesn't help with playing movies, anyway. It's all CPU and you probably want a G4 for it.

However the CPU is removable and there are (pricey) G4 upgrades available. I'd suggest doing some more searching about playing AVIs on a Mac before you give up.

snowbook's aren't as bad as clamshells.

I wish I could avoid taking the thing apart. iBooks are the worst machines to take apart. I would take it to the Apple Store, but I have a feeling they'd charge a pretty penny, sin…

This may be the dumbest question ever, but you can't hook a 2.5" laptop drive onto a 3.5" IDE connection, correct? Click to expand... There's never a stupid question.... But n…

This may be the dumbest question ever, but you can't hook a 2.5" laptop drive onto a 3.5" IDE connection, correct?

Nope, video card is built into the logic board.

yep its a prismo. OK so no hope on playing videos with better frame rates. Is there anyway to swap out the video card for a better one? like one from a G4?

AVI is hard. You really want a G4 for that IMHO.

Actually, if its a 500, and reads a gig of RAM, it sounds like its a Pismo. Look under the display...does it say "Macintosh PowerBook G3" or just "PowerBook"? If it says, "Macintos…

Actually, if its a 500, and reads a gig of RAM, it sounds like its a Pismo. Look under the display...does it say "Macintosh PowerBook G3" or just "PowerBook"? If it says, "Macintos…

I bet the hard drive failed first and that's what caused the lock-up.

Yikes - All this because of a lock-up. :O

And I thought that Silverlining 6.5.8 (with FireWire firmware update) was the latest and last for 9.2.2. However, the news that 6.5.9 gives you is the most chilling that can be re…

So this is what I was able to get out of Silverlining Pro. Pic Text

I think I have that Silverlining software that came with my LaCie 500GB USB drive when I got it last year. I'll check that out.

Whether in target disk mode or housed in an external enclosure, which are both perfectly suitable starting points for mounting the 'Book's HDD on the desktop of the G3, the 'Book's…

Most likely the hard drive just croaked at that point.

I am trying to play AVI movies. I copied it to the HD and I still got a very jumpy picture. Not smooth play at all and I was only able to get it to run with quick time. I tried VLC…