I purchased a couple of Wallstreets (one supposedly "good", one with power/logic board issues) from eBay recently - it was a bulk lot, it wan't amazingly expensive, but I'm having a few issues with the "supposedly good" one:
1) I got Mac OS 9.1 installed fine. I Then went to install Jaguar and the entire disc 1 ran flawlessly. It rebooted and the installer restarted. This semed a bit wrong to me, so I hit the power reset and removed the CD 1. Unfortunately, the point of reboot I got a Apple logo as expected, but about the time the little pinwheel is supposed to appear, the screen got random noise on it and the computer locked up. The disc I used was a backup of a very scratched and work copy of Jaguar, but it has definately been used to install 10.2 on at least one Mac, so as far as I know it's good. I tried booting holding cmd+V as I seem to remember that then runs in verbose mode, but it still crashged the same. Any ideas? It has 192MB RAM and a ~30GB hard drive that I assume aren't stock. I made the first partition less that 8GB, but I guess that might have been part of the problem? 2) The fan doesn't ever switch off. The PRAM battery is most likely dead and the main battery is most certainly dead. Is there any way to reset the PMU to not going ape on me? I'll try charging the PRAM battery tonight (as this seem like it would possibly work), but I'm not hopeful it will solve the issues as the main battery is completely deas (powerbook has a red cross on the battery indicator under Mac OS 9.1 and under Mac OS X is says no battery is present.) 3) I XPostfactod Panther on to it in desperation (definately known good discs) and it ran through as well as on my old G3 desktop, but the colours in "millions" mode are screwed up. 256 colour mode seems okay, but every reboot it insists on returning the Millions mode. I'm guessing the PRAM has something to do with mode being forgotten. Does Jaguar support Millions mode properly on the Wallstreet? It certainly looked like it did whilst installing. I don't want to reinstall everything *again* just to find out, unless I can be sure Jaguar will work. 4) Is there still an Apple batter reset utility on the web somewhere? Worth a try I'm guessing, not hopeful though. Powerbook 2 seems to power on okay. Has similar issues with the fan noise (though I only ran it for a short while) but there is no hard drive, so it's hard to tell. The seller mentioned that itrandomly powers off, so I'm not going to look at it any further at the moment because that could be a multitude of things seemingly, and probably just means it is past it is a lost cause. I'll see if the PRAM batter charges in that one too and that might solve my issues (swap out of parts.) If I can solve the fan, I think I can live with the other issues for a while, but the fan is driving me nuts! M --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
