Yes the adapter sounds great - *if* you have the time to rig one up, and ultimately will be useful if you can then modify it the other way around: to power a standard 3.5" or 2.5" …
68kMLAHardwareby Trash80toHP_MiniFri, 11 Dec 2009 - 04:31
Disk Drive is a no Go, as well as the hard drive it wont mount, I am taking the hard drive out and puting it in my g4 power mac and going to test it, them and going to toss the dvd…
68kMLATroubleshootingby MycatisbigfootFri, 11 Dec 2009 - 04:24
Yes the adapter sounds great - *if* you have the time to rig one up, and ultimately will be useful if you can then modify it the other way around: to power a standard 3.5" or 2.5" …
smoke from analog board, and then chirp-chirp-chirp from the analog board.
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Pina suggests checking the resistance across CR5. Anything higher than 3.6K Ohm ma…
68kMLATroubleshootingby Mac128Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 03:33
its not ram, as i looked on apples site and 3 dings are ram 4 is a rom, problem so i am thinking a bad frimware upgrade happend, so what I did was swap out the disk drive and the M…
68kMLATroubleshootingby MycatisbigfootFri, 11 Dec 2009 - 03:14
my original idea which i never started or attempted, but ill throw it out there for you if you want to do it this way:
My idea was to make an external floppy emulator that plugs i…
Two thoughts:
1. There is an Airport update available for OS9, as I recall, and though one would have thought it included in 9.2.2, you never know.... Worth a shot?
2. I mostly u…
68kMLANetworkingby beachycoveFri, 11 Dec 2009 - 02:37
In the past, Dell was notorious for using non-standard power supplies; sometimes even including non-standard pinouts!
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Yup. I avoid Dell power supplies for t…
68kMLAHardwareby Trash80toHP_MiniFri, 11 Dec 2009 - 02:32
Sounds to me like access to the Portable is limited until the owner's files are offloaded. So rigging up a simple adapter to back up the HDD onto another Mac, nets one Luggable to …
68kMLAHardwareby Trash80toHP_MiniFri, 11 Dec 2009 - 02:12
The problem with the unit, is the 400k drive rejects the disk, sometimes with a happy mac, sometimes without happy mac, rejecting disk, sometimes with an 0FXXXX sadmac code, someti…
68kMLATroubleshootingby techknightFri, 11 Dec 2009 - 01:38
you could try using an external display (Apple vision) to see if it will display any information there
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I wouldn't. Even though the Portable uses the same DB-…
I can confirm that auto-inject SuperDrives work fine on pre-SuperDrive Macs, having used an auto-inject SuperDrive on my 128k (with 512k of RAM and 512ke/Plus ROMs fitted). However…
68kMLATroubleshootingby LCGuyFri, 11 Dec 2009 - 00:06
Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. Most likely, if the machine was new and it had that draw on it when it was first built, I doubt it would have given up the ghost. I am betting the …
68kMLATroubleshootingby coiusThu, 10 Dec 2009 - 23:49
well I need it know,
It gave me the 4 beeps, (not bongs) but beeps, I looked at apples site and it says its somthing to do with a rom, Umm I thought there was no game system in th…
68kMLATroubleshootingby MycatisbigfootThu, 10 Dec 2009 - 23:03
Just got hold of Apple Recovery CD, Booted it with the help of an external CD and voila !It was a dream.
Now all I need are the Diagnostics for LC III so I can check if all is ok.…
Why it done this, no idea, but i figured i would try it out since the 400k drive thats in there, isnt in too good of shape.
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It had nothing to do with the Sup…
68kMLATroubleshootingby Mac128Thu, 10 Dec 2009 - 21:45
If it is the batt that is dead, I know you can rig a power adaptor to the battrie in slot like this guy said on lem
Godwin says, "If the acid battery dies, one can bypass it and …
68kMLAHardwareby MycatisbigfootThu, 10 Dec 2009 - 21:13