In a way. Here's an issue I've seen with iBooks running OS 9 before: as soon as the desktop loads, the powerbook falls asleep. Wake it up, it falls back asleep. No amount of PRAM r…
I hope someone can help me! I have a powerbook 1400 which I use daily, however a short time ago it began having two bars on the right side of the display. These are most noticable…
I got my lombard from ebay today, 333 mhz, 64 mb ram, 9.2.2 This runs os 9 great and thats where its going to stay i think. WamCom is a nice browser too. I have been trying to add …
In the last week the rubber skin on my graphite clamshell has started peeling away from the bottom part of the case, where I tend to rest my palms. It's only a 2 inch section along…
Hi all,
I've posted before about my two PowerBook 2400c units that don't work. They both have a different problem. I've had little luck in trying to get troubleshooting tips from …
Hey Guys,
Im looking for Lisa / Mac Portable Parts in Australia, I am currently participating in the Retro Challenge, but I'm now in a predicament!
The Lisa 2 I have, which is an…
A customer owns a Dual 1.8ghz PowerMac G5 that has issues. He also bought a stripped G5 containing a working mainboard. I get to take the non-functional mainboard from the origin…
I've got an iBook G4 (different iBook than the display plagued one) that has some sort of electrical gremlin going on. It's experiencing a few odd symptoms that have pointed to a …
Is there any sort of utility to turn on the internal fan on a Lombard? This thing is overheating and locking up. The cooling fan is not turning on at all.
I'm working on a new s…
68kMLATroubleshootingby quinterroWed, 25 Jun 2008 - 03:56
I recently purchased a first generation "Sawtooth" G4 - 400mhz model with AGP graphics. It was refurbished and came with MacOS 10.3 pre-installed, but the original MacOS 8.6 instal…
68kMLATroubleshootingby almeathTue, 17 Jun 2008 - 08:18
Hi,
My dad has a platinum PowerBook G4 laptop that has been acting strange lately. When you hit the power button, a gray screen comes up and the little wheel made up of lines fac…
68kMLATroubleshootingby ApostropheFri, 13 Jun 2008 - 20:16
I have this PowerBook 1400c/166 that has been working great until recently, when I turned it on and I got the infamous "death chimes" I went through the system, dismantled the e…
68kMLATroubleshootingby MacLoverWed, 11 Jun 2008 - 09:15
Hey there!
I'm having a few problems with my iBook G4's screen.
1. Sometimes when brightness is all the way up or almost all the way down, the screen flickers but stays that way …
68kMLATroubleshootingby juan123Mon, 9 Jun 2008 - 14:52
So a friend of a friend hears that I'm wacky for macs, and gives me a dead clamshell ibook that he had gotten from still someone else long ago, thinking he'd get around to fixing i…
68kMLATroubleshootingby tomlee59Thu, 25 Oct 2007 - 23:57
Got one of these on a call today. They had a B&W G3, and a biege. They wanted one of them for their family (still running off a PM 6100 which I may be able to have later as…
68kMLATroubleshootingby iamdigitalmanWed, 10 Oct 2007 - 23:32
Previous 68kmla user "Anhaedra" signed onto the IRC channel using the name "Torbar203" and sent some really bad links. Idk if theres anything anyone here can do about it, but I'd …
68kMLATroubleshootingby TorbarSun, 7 Oct 2007 - 03:22
no, not an original, but a Platinum IIe. After playing with one 3 years ago, and amassing a huge pile of accessories (5.25 and 3.5" floppy drives, external modem, printer card, app…
I won a Macintosh SE on eBay. It looks like it's an FDHD. It will be my first compact Macintosh! I will be installing System 6.0.8 on it. Applications I know I'll be using with it …
It seems like no matter which machine I use it on, after like a day goes by, even though I have it save my login into cookies, I end up getting logged out.
I have had this happen …
Last Christmas my wife bought me a 4gen 40 gig ipod. The one with the black and white display. This is my second ipod. I had a 2nd gen 20gig which i had filled up and wanted mor…
MacNNTroubleshootingby atlcaneMon, 17 Oct 2005 - 15:45