I have the Disk Controller II inserted into my socket 6 (using ROM 1 for my Apple IIgs). When I turn the computer on, the disk drive doesn't perform any sort of activity at all, ho…

Very, very rare indeed, so you might reasonably conclude that the weight and stiffness are much more valuable to you in stabilizing your laptop than a tiny, tiny risk of fire from …

Thermal runaway is kind of rare considering how many batteries are out there and how many combusted.

I think the filler is useful to give the laptop increased mechanical stiffness and better balance. And the primary hazard is with charged cells. However uncharged batteries still…

So basically the cells are dead and the memory manager will not let the unit charge at all. There is no problem then using the battery as a space filler in the laptop (which is the…

Thanks for that, Wally. It underscores how much more there is to fear from mistreated lithium cells than from the LHC.

Hacking lithium-ion battery packs is not for the uninitiated. Leave it alone. Click to expand... and how do you become initiated if you dont try ? Click to expand... Fra…

Upon battery insertion the battery manager board, if working, momentarily test charges the cells and looks for approximately 3V= If this is not met charging is disallowed and the…

What's on the battery "board"? Click to expand... The "battery board" provides control systems for "intelligent batteries". The charging controls monitor voltage, current and t…

and how do you become initiated if you dont try ? Click to expand... I think he means "uninitiated" as "someone who has likely never messed with complex electronics before." I …

I recently got in 3 dead wallstreet batteries (2 Apple made and one 3rd party). One of the Apple batteries charges in like a few minutes to 4 lights and will not boot a machine. I …

Hacking lithium-ion battery packs is not for the uninitiated. Leave it alone. Click to expand... and how do you become initiated if you dont try ?

Now I can't save as QT movie and then try to open it like you did because the QT plugin under all three browsers asks me to pay for QT Pro upgrade, but I did try all three browsers…

Wow, you're having the exact opposite issue from what I'm having; bloody QuickTime, make up your mind what you want to break

What's on the battery "board"?

I'm thinking the problem is Quicktime plugin being stupid under Safari... My Pismo 10.3.9 400 MHz PowerPC G3 256 MB SDRAM Trying to play your movie on your problem, by viewing…

Whee, I made a video of exactly what's going on here: http://augusf.dyndns.org/public/qtissue.mov If anybody has any ideas, I'd be happy to hear them; it's really rather annoying…

Hacking lithium-ion battery packs is not for the uninitiated. Leave it alone.

I moved the Rage128 to the slot nearest the IDE connectors and so far it works. On to locating an ATX case to hack up and locating a hard disk larger than 3.2GB...

I don't think the Mach 64 can handle a 66 mhz slot as it's a pretty ancient card. Could the 128 be dead?

Thanks for the reply, sircabulon. I think you're right - the card is toast. I tried it again in the 66MHz slot, and this time I got some video, but it was the same corrupted video…

Excellent! I will only be using low density RAM - Thanks!

The 66 mhz slot should not effect it. If the card can fit into the slot normally, then it is rated for that speed. Are there any broken or loose solders on the VGA connector? I …

yes it cantake non low profile sticks its the only Beige G3 that can cause there is allot of room above the ram. i just hope you dont mean high density and low density ram, cause t…

Without major hacking at the cables (if its even possible), its impossible - the cables are completely different.