Greetings everyone. I just reinstalled Mac OS 8.6 on my 1400 and I have an ORiNOCO WaveLan wireless card for it. Before I installed 8.6, the card worked perfectly (System 7.6). But…
My dad came back from his office today with a whole bunch of Mac stuff that his office no longer uses. There were a few mice, an OS CD for a Power Macintosh G3, other various util…
68kMLAPowerPCby ApostropheSun, 24 Aug 2008 - 22:42
Some of you may recall the Power Mac G4 Quicksilver I picked up for the fantastic price of free not that long ago. It was destroyed by a student who fiddled with the voltage regula…
My Sawtooth (500mhz, 1.75gb, 10.5.4) never has free RAM.
Let me explain.
It is running Leopard, apache, mysql, and TorrentFlux (Python).
When I first boot the machine, 1.5GB of …
68kMLAHardwareby sambapati87Wed, 20 Aug 2008 - 18:02
I ve bought a Pismo (500 mhz) on eBay, and it was sold broken.
At home I unplugged the pram battery, and then it booted fine. The Pismo is in great condition.
But the screen is s…
Hey, I have been wanting to do a hack to backlight my lobmard keyboard. I was thinking I should use some light string, but I dont know how I should power it. I was thinking maybe …
68kMLAPeripheralsby sircabulonWed, 20 Aug 2008 - 04:03
I'm possibly interested in upgrading the CPU in my Sawtooth (500mhz now).
I don't want to buy one of the 3rd party upgrade cards -- I'd prefer to buy a stock CPU that was pulled w…
68kMLAHardwareby sambapati87Tue, 19 Aug 2008 - 04:47
My newly acquired iBook G3 600 seems good in every way, except:
I can't network with ethernet. I tried to connect it with the iMac G5, they didn't see each other. My Lombard conne…
68kMLANetworkingby SludgedragonSun, 17 Aug 2008 - 15:48
Hey fellow Newtonians! I need your help in fixing my eMate! The short of the story... I had it sitting in a chair under my dining room table. I had tomato's sitting on the table, a…
68kMLATroubleshootingby classic mac 500Sun, 17 Aug 2008 - 13:59
One of the many things I got in a trade today was a sweet AGP G4, but I can't seem to get it online, I set the network stuff to automatic and tried rebooting and unplugging and rep…
68kMLANetworkingby xypex982Sat, 16 Aug 2008 - 01:27
I have been reading about how you can use a Quicksilver CPU in a Digital Audio powermac, but it has to have a 12 Volt connection, anyone here know how to do that or know of a guide…
My Power Mac G5's power supply failed. One of the brown pillow-shaped resistors started burning up as I was using it. The one next to it burned a little bit as well.
It looks like…
68kMLATroubleshootingby Mike RichardsonFri, 15 Aug 2008 - 04:46
Hello all :b&w:
I saw a dead PowerBook 2400 floating around a local auction website and starting price is just HK$99. The seller should be an experienced Mac collector and…
I have over 20 AIO G3s, maybe 25. At least 5 arc, probably more. By arc I mean that every several seconds the screen pops violently and you can hear an arc going on somewhere in th…
68kMLATroubleshootingby Mike RichardsonThu, 14 Aug 2008 - 08:34
hey guys, I am trying to get my beloved eMate 300 synced to my desktop. I recently bought a USB to DB-9 serial adapter with mac drivers. It works flawlessly with my Apple II, so I …
68kMLANetworkingby iamdigitalmanWed, 13 Aug 2008 - 22:07
Finally got my MP 2000 online using a Lucent WaveLAN silver card. 3 hours it took me to work out the settings! Kudos to the Japanese guy for writing the drivers.
Just got a new battery for my Lombard. When I push the button on the battery it shows three lights so I assume it is charged. However it will not boot the Lombard. When I plug i…
68kMLATroubleshootingby jkociWed, 13 Aug 2008 - 19:58
I have a PowerBook 1400, and sometimes, when I plug it in to AC power, it doesn't recognise that I have done so! It gets a draw from the adapter only about 75% of the time, and the…
68kMLATroubleshootingby rpaxton32Tue, 12 Aug 2008 - 18:25
Hello, I was wondering if it was possible to accrue USB functionality on a 1400 through the use of PC cards, and if so, what is the make and model of the card?
68kMLAHardwareby rpaxton32Mon, 11 Aug 2008 - 00:52