I would first just remove the drive and clean all the dust out of it. Then insert a disk into the bare drive and manually eject it a few times to try to observe any problems. Cou…

The only relevant tip would be that you have to configure the jumper block yourself to run the CPU at 500 MHz (or as near as you can get it by multiplying 66 MHz). Apart from that…

I'm pretty sure AppleWin has what youre after. http://applewin.berlios.de

It has to do with a bad install disc. Thankfully I use only backups so I don't scratch my originals. Click to expand... Thats a very good idea, I have a 9.0 disc here that I go…

That is awesome, click on something and you get an explosion before whatever you click on opens.

It has to do with a bad install disc. Thankfully I use only backups so I don't scratch my originals.

Now that is strange! Maybe a system extension that customizes the mouse pointer? Do share when you figure it out! Huxley

Am I just pushing that slow internal bus further than it was meant to go? Click to expand... Sounds like a power/heating issue.

Off-hand, an immediate suggestion is to take in Franklinstein's comment about Royal VRMs in the Beige DT and MT (in your other recent post, about ZIF CPUs). Beyond that, some test…

It's been a long, long drought since ic-china had much in the way of 500MHz ZIF cards, and even now it is only the 750s rather than 7400s. Grab while the skips/dumpsters of the wo…

That's an awesome tip - thanks! That being said, I'm about to put down $21 for this item: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230304040895 ...and I though…

Well, really, I suppose the question should be this. "Is Powerbook Guy's price of $99USD a ripoff?"

"Billy Mays, here!" I'm thinking that the IDE controller doesn't know how to do slave devices so the second card will be MIA. But it would be an interesting exercise at least. Pe…

The discs you are using, are they CD-Rs? Or is it a DVD-R? The early iMacs and iBooks have issues with burned discs. It seems they were an early implementation of a new laser, …

Oops, just seeing I posted in the wrong forum. Sorry about that! May some moderator move the topic?

www.buy.com has the wang model of 6200, that is where i bought mine from buy.com xfx 6200 wang that is where i bought mine from. as heavymetal4god said it could be bad nvram set…

Well done! What happens if you put cards in _both_ slots? Peace, Drew Click to expand... It will become a Billy Mays commercial. It'll Double your order! [] ]'>

Well done! What happens if you put cards in _both_ slots? Peace, Drew

Would be nice to run OS/X - sadly 64mb of ram won't be a pleasant experience :'( or maybe it won't install. Got it running with the 40GB drive - its running very nicely on OS …

This is great work! I took the liberty to link to your post from my System Folder blog. I hope it's OK with you Cheers from another PowerBook 5300 owner! Rick

I'm in the same boat with mine, but I don't have an optical drive to boot from, or the Firewire model.

Your talking about if he wanted to install OS X. OS 9 or 8 don't have the 8GB partition limitation.

Oops! The disk image for King's Quest disk 1 came back with errors & ADTPRO labels the disk as being "I/O Errors." I have a utility that will try to get bad blocks out on m…

On the tray loaders the two limitations are that the OS has to be on the first partition which is 8gb or less, the second is the mac can't recognize the full capacity of a HD if it…

You might want to check the jumpers - I find that with my iMac, the HDD must be set to Master or Single drive, otherwise I can't boot from the drive.