2008/11/11 Larry Stotler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > The fan in mine only comes on after I've disconnected the battery and > AC(the PRAM is dead). It comes on for a couple of seconds, and then I > never hear it come on again. My Battery works(although it now only > seems to report about 70% in linux).
Right, well, having tested both machines again, "good" powerbook has a constant fan, "bad" powerbook doesn't. Is the PMU a part I could transplant? I think I can possibly make one good powerbook from these parts. The hard drive seems fine in the other one and other than the fan being on full all the time, it seems okay. I have a feeling the PRAM battery might work in the bad one too. > That depends on how much VRAM you have. If you have the "Mainstreet" > version with 2MB VRAM, then 16bit is it at 1024x768 on the 13" and 14" > screens. The 12" is only 800x600, and should do 24bit with 2MB. Need > to know what your specs are as well. Processor speed and video chip. > The Series I had the Rage II and the Series II had the Rage Pro Series 2 (PDQ) 266MHz for both machines. Setting "old NDEVS" (is is?) and rebooting fixed the issue. Now does thousands perfectly, which is fine. > > 4) Is there still an Apple batter reset utility on the web somewhere? > > Worth a try I'm guessing, not hopeful though. > > http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60655 Well, didn't make much difference :-) Worth a go I guess. To be honest, this looks like a nice little project for a Saturday afternoon at some point. Question is: would it be better to start with the powerbook that seems to have a working PMU/PRAM battery as a base and assume the issues are processor card/ram related.. or transplant the PMU to the otherwise "good" machine, I wonder? :-) Any advice taken happily. I guess opening up both of them might yield more info ( and highlight missing parts and other bodges I Suspect the previous owner might have done.) Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
