Re: Pismo problems help needed ASAP!

2005-07-13 Thread Kevin Bellerose
It is OS 10.39 Is verbose c-o-p-r? Thanks for your help. Kevin - Original Message - From: Lisa Tom P [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 11:02 PM Subject: Re: Pismo problems help needed ASAP! Stuck @ spinning gear at start up

Re: Pismo problems help needed ASAP!

2005-07-13 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
It is OS 10.39 Is verbose c-o-p-r? CMD-OPT-P-R is PRAM reset. CMD-V is verbose IIRC. -- Best wishes Malcolm Cornelius - The Powerbook Fanatic http://www.pbfanatic.co.uk -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com |

Re: Pismo problems help needed ASAP!

2005-07-13 Thread Kevin Bellerose
- From: Malcolm Cornelius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 6:35 AM Subject: Re: Pismo problems help needed ASAP! It is OS 10.39 Is verbose c-o-p-r? CMD-OPT-P-R is PRAM reset. CMD-V is verbose IIRC. -- Best wishes Malcolm Cornelius

Re: Pismo problems help needed ASAP!

2005-07-13 Thread Michael Cangelosi
: Pismo problems help needed ASAP! Running this command it stops after BSD diskOS9, major114, minor 78 and then does not let me continue the prompt is a white box that does not let me go on. Is there a way to get my pictures off the hard disk, all my baby's pictures are on there THanks

Pismo problems help needed ASAP!

2005-07-12 Thread Kevin Bellerose
Stuck @ spinning gear at start up will spin forever, I reset NVRAM no help Did command-s it stopped before it competed the check and did not make it to the prompt. I the last 2 succeful boots one soon had video problems white lines through the text and loss of icons in task bar, clicking on blank

Re: Pismo problems help needed ASAP!

2005-07-12 Thread Lisa Tom P
Stuck @ spinning gear at start up will spin forever, I reset NVRAM no help Did command-s it stopped before it competed the check and did not make it to the prompt. I the last 2 succeful boots one soon had video problems white lines through the text and loss of icons in task bar, clicking on

Even more Pismo Problems!

2005-01-16 Thread Dyna
Yes, this is the same 2000 vintage Pismo I've been writing about for the last couple months... Initial symptoms were freezes and eventually wouldn't boot at all. After replacing the hard drive and a fresh install of OSs 9.1 and 10.2 it was working better. In fact at times it would go for a

Re: Even more Pismo Problems!

2005-01-16 Thread James Sanderson
PRAM battery. It seems that replacing it solves a number of issues, though not your mysterious crack. j sanderson On 16 Jan 2005, at 21:23, Dyna wrote: Yes, this is the same 2000 vintage Pismo I've been writing about for the last couple months... Initial symptoms were freezes and eventually

Re: Even more Pismo Problems!

2005-01-16 Thread Dyna
Thanks James- the PRAM battery shows normal voltage so I haven't replaced it. On Sunday, January 16, 2005, at 09:35 PM, James Sanderson wrote: PRAM battery. It seems that replacing it solves a number of issues, though not your mysterious crack. j sanderson On 16 Jan 2005, at 21:23, Dyna

Re: Pismo Problems, Continued...

2004-12-21 Thread Mikael Byström
Laurent Daudelin said: is a common problem with the G3 PowerBooks. It's common with the machines that do not have effective cooling. Cooling paste is my advice and/or adding a custommade circular COPPER plate on top of the CPU, if there is any room. You can measure exact thickness with model

Pismo Problems, Continued...

2004-12-17 Thread Dyna
Thanks to everyone who suggested fixes for my near dead Pismo. The hard drive was indeed bad, and I replaced it with a new 40 gig Hitachi and added 256 megs of RAM while I was in there to up the total RAM to 384 megs. Despite all this new hardware the Pismo often needed repeated reboots to

Re: Pismo Problems, Continued...

2004-12-17 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 31/12/69 19:34, Dyna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to everyone who suggested fixes for my near dead Pismo. The hard drive was indeed bad, and I replaced it with a new 40 gig Hitachi and added 256 megs of RAM while I was in there to up the total RAM to 384 megs. Despite all this new

Re: Pismo Problems, Continued...

2004-12-17 Thread Dyna
On Friday, December 17, 2004, at 11:18 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: I don't think that this symptom is a common problem with the G3 PowerBooks. I used a Wallstreet for about 6 months, then a Pismo for about a year and never had any unexpected freeze, never, ever. Your problem might still be with

Re: Pismo Problems, Continued...

2004-12-17 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 17/12/04 12:46, Dyna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, December 17, 2004, at 11:18 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: I don't think that this symptom is a common problem with the G3 PowerBooks. I used a Wallstreet for about 6 months, then a Pismo for about a year and never had any

Re: Pismo Problems, Continued...

2004-12-17 Thread Peter Stein
Dyna, It seems like deja-vu to me while I read your post. I had a Pismo 500mhz that exhibited the same symptoms (and more) as yours. It would be my suggestion to: Remove your processor daughtercard and take a very good look at the large chip on the UNDERSIDE of the daughtercard. Mine was

Re: Pismo motherboards/ Pismo problems

2004-04-25 Thread Dean Reichert
Thanks to all who responded. I found a cheep motherboard from a 400 so I think I'm going to go ahead and replace mine to see if it clears up my restart problem. Thanks again Dean On Apr 25, 2004, at 2:42 PM, Malcolm Cornelius wrote: on 25/04/04 02:07, Dean Reichert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are

Re: Pismo Problems

2003-10-04 Thread Andrew Kershaw
Drew, IIRC you may want to check the extension which loaded right after the Apple Audio Extension (or maybe the one right before). On my Pismo, sometimes it's not been the extension whose icon you see last, but the one that was in process of loading that caused the problem (or else, the extension

Re: Pismo Problems

2003-10-04 Thread Steve Kidd
On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 07:59 AM, Andrew Kershaw wrote: It seems to have been AAE. Disabling it seems to have stopped those particular errors. Curiously, the problem (with the same OS) doesn't occur on my Wallstreet. It still may not have been AAE. I once had the same problem on a Mac

Re: Pismo Problems

2003-10-04 Thread Andrew Kershaw
It still may not have been AAE. I once had the same problem on a Mac at the office. Disabling AAE helped for a while, then it moved on to other extensions. It wasn't a virus and I never did find a solution, but ended up reformatting the drive completely. Many strange problems continued to

Re: Pismo Problems

2003-10-03 Thread James Rohde
On 10/02/2003, Michelle Klein-Hass wrote: On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:55 pm, Andrew Kershaw wrote: Here's another tidbit: Since I got it, every second boot or so has crashed mid-extensions with a system error supposedly caused by Apple Audio Extension. Curiously, this has happened in

Re: Pismo Problems

2003-10-02 Thread Michelle Klein-Hass
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:55 pm, Andrew Kershaw wrote: Here's another tidbit: Since I got it, every second boot or so has crashed mid-extensions with a system error supposedly caused by Apple Audio Extension. Curiously, this has happened in 9.2.2, 9.2.1, and off a 9.2.1 CD, so it's

Pismo Problems

2003-10-01 Thread Andrew Kershaw
Hi all, It's time for my first real question to the list... My Pismo 500 is acting up in strange ways - it won't wake from sleep without locking up hard and requiring a reboot. When I boot it, I only succesfully boot about one in five or six tries. The rest of the time it either locks up at

Re: Pismo Problems

2003-10-01 Thread Andrew Kershaw
Oh yeah: Pismo 500 1GB RAM OS 9.2.2, 9.2.1 Thanks, Drew -- Author of ClassicStumbler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.alksoft.com/ Visit the PowerBook 5300 FAQ! http://www.alksoft.com/5300_FAQ/ -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: Pismo Problems

2003-10-01 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 02/10/03 01:00, Andrew Kershaw at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, It's time for my first real question to the list... My Pismo 500 is acting up in strange ways - it won't wake from sleep without locking up hard and requiring a reboot. When I boot it, I only succesfully boot about

Re: Pismo Problems

2003-10-01 Thread Andrew Kershaw
Have you tried to put back the original memory? Well, no, not yet. I'm in the process of troubleshooting my new (month old) RAM first. And so far, one module passes all the RAM checks. I've booted with the second module right now, and I'll be checking it out... But originally it only had

Pismo Problems With Sound Sticks

2003-05-30 Thread Robbie Johnstone
I hope someone can help with this problem. I haven't had my Sound Sticks connected for some time. Since they were last connected I have upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2.2. Now when I connect the sticks the systems states that software needed for the USB device 'sound sticks' is not available - and it

Re: Jaguar on Pismo problems?

2002-10-21 Thread Dean
Another Data Point... I installed Jaguar on my pismo over 10.1, which was installed over 9.1 with no disk wipe. I've had no modem problems. Dean p.s. I appologize for any duplicate posts to individuals. My installation was also on a freshly wiped disk, not over any other OS installation. Maybe

Re: Jaguar on Pismo problems?

2002-10-20 Thread Brian A. Miller
P. Turtle-Bear Guillermo wrote: Have you tried making the Network Port Configurations show? System Preferences-Network-Show-Network Port Configurations You should have Internal Modem, IrDA Modem Port, Built-in Ethernet, (and Airport if you have a card installed) on the list. Yes, I have

Jaguar on Pismo problems?

2002-10-19 Thread Brian A. Miller
I am trying to install MacOS X 10.2 (Jaguar) on a PowerBook G3 Family Number M7572 (USB/FireWire, Pismo) and am running into a couple of annoying problems: 1. system freezes just before drawing dock on bottom of screen if I do not hold down the SHIFT key to force a safe boot 2. internal

Re: Jaguar on Pismo problems?

2002-10-19 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 19/10/02 12:42, Brian A. Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install MacOS X 10.2 (Jaguar) on a PowerBook G3 Family Number M7572 (USB/FireWire, Pismo) and am running into a couple of annoying problems: 1. system freezes just before drawing dock on bottom of screen if I do

Re: Jaguar on Pismo problems?

2002-10-19 Thread Joe Ellis
I have Jag installed on my Pismo and don't have any problems, I network my Pismo with airport to an airport base station running a cable modem so I can't speak to your modem problems. What kind of install did you do? On 10/19/02 12:42 PM, Brian A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying

Re: Jaguar on Pismo problems?

2002-10-19 Thread Brian A. Miller
Laurent Daudelin wrote: Try updating to 10.2.1, a free update. Then, Apple did recently release a modem update that addresses exactly the problem you're describing. Try this and let us know how it turns out. Although I have installed 10.2 on the same computer that you have and never had any

Re: Jaguar on Pismo problems?

2002-10-19 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 19/10/02 15:48, Kevin Stevens at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, Oct 19, 2002, at 09:42 US/Pacific, Brian A. Miller wrote: 1. system freezes just before drawing dock on bottom of screen if I do not hold down the SHIFT key to force a safe boot 2. internal modem is not

Re: Pismo problems

2002-07-24 Thread Michel Treisman
Hi. I wonder if anyone else has this problem. I have a 500 MHz Firewire G3 Powerbook, with the hard drive partitioned, and I usually boot on the partition (PB X) that has Mac OS X 10.1.5 installed. For several weeks now, I have had the following problems from time to time. First, sometimes