It was a very good deal. My Pismo is so much brighter now! It also was becoming a bit pink in the left corner which was a sign that it maybe wouldn't have lasted a whole lot long…

Well done -- congratulations! As you noted, it's not so much hard as it is tedious, with lots of little steps along the way. But it's well worth doing, given that a $10 tube can re…

SUCCESS! It was a tricky thing to do, but everything worked fine. I agree that you should work slowly and carefully. I managed to not break either bulb (old & new). The…

If you have trouble starting it up in the future, try the reset button on the back. I've had to prod that a couple of times to get my Lombard to wake up.

Good info there tomlee59. I got two hours of solid websurfing out of my $20 as-is Lombard battery last night on my first test run, but it went dead with no warning and the battery…

Am trying to revive a dead 2400c/180 in the next week or three. As detailed on this page, among a handful of others in English, there are some dozen or more fuses in the innards o…

Just work slowly and carefully, and you'll be fine. Never force anything, don't bend the tube. It's not super-fragile, but do be careful. It can actually flex a bit, so no need to …

I ordered the bulb and it came today. I don't really have any good instructions how to do this but I think I'll have a stab at it. Does anyone have any last-minute recommendation…

It lives! { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Ple…

the battery needs to be fully charged, then discharged to shutdown, a couple of times. Click to expand... I have done this once, but I'll try it a couple more times. It seems …

Bunsen was right! I unplugged my batteries (both were put in the machine) and plugged the PRAM battery back, left it overnight, and the thing powers up without the battery being un…

With most lithium-ion packs, the fuel gauge software is adaptive. It needs a training period to get properly calibrated for a given set of cells. During that training period, the b…

It appears that Battery Reset is not compatible with Pismos unfortunately, but good try. I wish I could just figure out what causes the mAh number to go up and do it.

I have not tried that yet. I'll see what happens later tonight. I have been using Battery Health Monitor in Mac OS X to see the mAh values.

Have you tried Battery Reset?

I have a Pismo battery that went one day from holding a charge for an hour to not taking a charge, the light would not even blink on it. I took it apart and manually (eek!) charge…

Lucky, you got the cool iMac where it was user serviceable. Click to expand... Yup, mine's the same revision model. I was a bit bummed to find out only weeks after I purchased…

Sexy? Fetish? Well, make sure you don't get the wrong hardware jammed inside the drive. The slot is kinda the wrong shape.

You guys don't understand how sexy the Disk II controller is AND THE DISK DRIVE II. Just thinking about them or using them make my head swim so hard I lose total balance, GS with D…

Some simple stuff you can try... When you run the disk repair and verification stuff within disk utilities while booted off the OS X install media, does it catch and repair anythi…

...So do I un solder the clamshell batteries to fit the pismo battery board or not. I'm afraid to do that because I do not want to screw something up so bad. Click to expand... …

Lucky, you got the cool iMac where it was user serviceable.

It has been a while, so I could be wrong here, but I think that you also have to change "slot 6" to "my card", otherwise it will assume that you're trying to boot from the internal…

Complete specs: 1.8 Ghz PPC G5, 512 MB RAM, 80 gig HD. I've done nothing to it since buying it, except for the guy at the apple store who inserted the extra 256 stick of RAM. @ Qu…

If you leave it plugged in and off, with the main battery removed, and the motherboard battery plugged in, sometimes you can get a charge into the motherboard battery.