Tom,
I did the cardbus thing 2 weeks ago and everything seems to be
working fine. I used a pair of fine needle nose to pull the top ends of
the yellow tracewires as I touched a finepoint soldering iron to the
solder point on the board. They popped right out, was very quick. I
taped the ends so that if there was a problem I could reattach them but
so far so good. I have a FireWire2Go card and works great for
downloading video to imovie. My 2400 does have a 320mhz upgrade however.
Don't know how well it will work with a stock 2400.
Tom Rymes wrote:
> Okay,
>
> Bored today, and I have seen the specials on IBM Firewire cards at
> OWC. Anyway, I popped the top off of my 2400c/180 to see if mine was
> the type with the yellow trace wires on the MB. (I thought I had seen
> them last time I had it open....) It is...I think....
>
> Anyway, I was wondering if someone could verify this info for me. My
> two wires on the top of the MB are like those shown on
> http://www2.powerbook.org/lovemb/2400/cardbus.html
>
> One goes to Y2. The other goes to an unnamed part.
>
> I don't use my 2400c enough to warrant spending the utterly reasonable
> price that MCE charges, but I would like to be able to use my external
> FW drive with my 2400. Can anyone verify that if I cut these two
> little wires (And make sure that the ends don't touch, and make sure I
> don't GLOD my machine) that it ought to allow me to use CardBus cards?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Tom
>
>
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