Hmm, that sounds like a ram issue, try reseating it and put only one in, try many combos till it works.

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 …

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…

http://www.wreckcenter.com/68k/NetInstall/ Above is the link to the complete set of software in a single package.

you could try using an external display (Apple vision) to see if it will display any information there Click to expand... 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…

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 …

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…

Ah! Then he did not do anything wrong! It probably was the Power Supply. Click to expand... You mean apart from exceeding the PSU load.

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.…

I own two tangerine iBooks and one has an AirPort card in it. Because of its limited specs (128mb ram, 300mhz G3, 4mb Vram and a 12gb hard drive.) I decided to install 9.2.2 inste…

Good luck!

opps I ment Indgo, My mind is not here, I just feel like crap atm, lol geting it in a bit 15-30mins atm

Cool! But the firewire models where not ever bondi, they were either blueberry or indigo.

Ah! Then he did not do anything wrong! It probably was the Power Supply.

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. Click to expand... It had nothing to do with the Sup…

Scored my third Imac that is a bondi blue, I am geting the computer in an hour as its in my neighbours trunk, (I asked if she could bring it over) She works at my school and is dr…

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 …

What component made the smoke?

Well what symptoms does the 512k show? Maybe you can fix it!

yea i realized that, but i figured the drive would still be electrically compatible. but nope.

Woah thats not good. But you should know that the 512k only supports up to 800k using an external drive! It's in the ROM! )

Learned a new lesson of the day: Dont plug in a superdrive pulled from an old LC575 series system into a mac 512k. It produces magic smoke and a dead chirping mac. Why it done thi…

I've got the opportunity to pick up the paper edition of Inside Mac vol. VI - the huge one. Click to expand... It contains all the System 7 introductions, eg process Manager, A…

Surely the issue here is the one where the Mac Portable cannot start up because of a dead lead acid battery ... something I need to research on these forums with my own Portable so…