I have 120GB in my Lombard and my sister's Pismo has a 40GB yanked from a mac Mini. Both are PC compatible drives.

As far as PowerBooks go, so long as they're IDE inside, you can use any bloody drive you like. I yanked the 30 gigger in my Pismo right now out of an old Sony lappy

Why don't you want to just get a generic IDE HDD? What do you think came in there from the factory? Every single PowerPC 'Book apart from the Duo 2300 shipped with a standard 2.5" …

That only applies to HDD's above 4 GB with the PowerBook 1400 series.

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. Click to ex…

Are they like the PDS cards that need a terminator installed if nothing is connected?

Why do you want to run the G3 without the personality card? Click to expand... Because then it would be like a mega church.

Why do you want to run the G3 without the personality card?

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 …

You could also investigate professional laptop battery rebuilding services.

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…

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…

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…

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

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…