Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of. I do hope it's the RAM, will try with some from my G4 later. Fucks me right off too, as I scrounged this last week and there was another where I…

^^sounds like a hardware rather then software problem.

But then, why not just do a clean install of OS 9 and skirt around the problem? Click to expand... Both my 8.6 and 9.2 CDs that boot my 7500 just fine give the same error, as d…

There's a prior listing of offending/offensive ATi extensions in the thread: http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=822&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=25…

I've installed OS 9.0 from iMac install media onto a beige G3 and experienced the same problem. The solution was to use the generic 9.0 install CD. You may be able to fix it by twi…

Compare the presently-installed extensions with those that would be installed from the OS 9 CD—using TomeViewer to see the latter if you have to do so—in case what you believe to b…

I have an iBook Clamshell battery if you need one.

Batteryspace.com sells NiMH tabbed 4/3AF cells. Getting eight of them to fit into that tight PB1400 case may be a problem, so the tab soldering must be done in a very compact man…

DON'T put any Clamshell battery parts into the 1400 battery or vice versa. The cells in ALL iBook batteries are Li-Ion cells, whereas the 1400 uses NiMH. Interchanging them would b…

first thought, duff RAM/slot, try one memory stick at a time and see what happens or if there is only one then try a different stick. If that doesn't work then I'd suspect a knack…

I have an old edition, (2nd, I think) It's from 1994 and covers the very first Power Macs, so that's where I read it.

YEAH! I think I read that in Mac Secrets or something. I have 2 of the 5th edition of that book. It is a GREAT book. It even lists each Mac model. You can get the PDF of that …

This is more trivia now, but it used to be in the old days of System, and I think this is System 6 and before, you could really mess up a Mac by creating a file named .Sony.

Hah, I remember that about the .Sony driver now. Cool. Certainly doesn't ever hurt to rebuild the desktop Bunsen, might as well try it and automatically fix a few other problems …

Is there some specific reason behind that suggestion, Bunsen? / to rebuild the desktop Click to expand... It rang a vague bell with something I've encountered before.

It's driver is on the hard disk. It's .Sony

There is no extension for the floppy drive. Its driver is built-into the ROM of the Mac, and may also be inside the system file somewhere. The CD-ROM has an extension. Neither l…

i have ran into these issues before, sometimes the driver extension can get messed up, sometimes it can be the eject system getting gummed up, or a bad cable connection. i think i…

I had been planning on putting a fresh copy of an OS on there, and I ended up putting 8.5 on my G3. Ejecting floppies doesn't appear to be a problem any more. I really wonder if …

I would never have thought of that. Is there some specific reason behind that suggestion, Bunsen? Are you suggesting to rebuild the desktop on the HD or the floppy, or both?

Try rebuilding your desktop.

I would first just remove the drive and clean all the dust out of it. Then insert a disk into the bare drive and manually eject it a few times to try to observe any problems. Cou…

The discs you are using, are they CD-Rs? Or is it a DVD-R? The early iMacs and iBooks have issues with burned discs. It seems they were an early implementation of a new laser, …

Oops, just seeing I posted in the wrong forum. Sorry about that! May some moderator move the topic?

I'm in the same boat with mine, but I don't have an optical drive to boot from, or the Firewire model.