On Nov 11, 2008, at 11/11, 5:12 PM, ME wrote: > Right, well, having tested both machines again, "good" powerbook > has a constant fan, "bad" powerbook doesn't.
Did you zap the PMU? (I think it was Shift-Fn-Ctrl and maybe Opt. It's listed on the back to the left of the cable connection ports). If that didn't help then... > 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. ...Definitely yes. PMU transplantation time. I would strongly suggest doing a few repetitive low level formats of whatever hard drive you use. Had one friend suggest the magic number of formats is 8?! In any case, it's very useful. I know my original HD dropped sectors fairly often. > Setting "old NDEVS" (is is?) and rebooting fixed the issue. Now > does thousands perfectly, which is fine. Excellent! Regarding 10.3 and the video problem: XPostFacto is using a driver that was never meant for that video board. If you get it to work, great! But I never did. The XPostFacto notes make this situation quite clear. In my case the video freak out was consistent and unrecoverable. I tried the install a couple times with identical results. Other stuff to do: Get some heat grease and do a take apart down to the CPU. Clean off the grease that is there and on the lame-o heat dissipation pad/ plate. Reapply the grease as per Apple's instructions and toss it back together again. Overheating problems with the G3 chips in the Wallstreets were common, as was discussed here recently. The G4 replacement boards had no such problems. Be extra EXTRA careful with the screw that holds down the heat shield plate. It is a POS made of soft aluminum and will strip if you sneeze on it. Once you strip it you are pretty much screwed. There is an identical screw that holds down the modem card that you can trade. Otherwise you're going to be playing with pliers to try to get the thing in and out. Needle nose work best. Good luck. And as ever with the Wallstreets: The hinges are made of what I call Crap Metal. They shatter very easily and eventually lead to Floppy Display Syndrome. If it gets that bad then it is time for hinge assembly replacement ASAP as the cable to the display is likely to soon break. Hopefully among your collection you have a good set of hinges. After two replacements on mine, I now leave it open all the time. I use a little chunk of magnet placed over the trigger spot to put it to sleep. If you have no good main batteries and the PRAM batteries are all shot, the machine will survive if you keep it plugged in. You can still get batteries over at NewerTech.com aka OtherWorldComputing.com. But be prepared to go into shock at the price at the cost of the main battery. Replacing the PRAM battery in the Wallstreet is a helluva PITA. Hope that helps, :-Derek =================== Derek Currie [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================== http://Mac-Security.blogspot.com http://MacSmarticles.blogspot.com http://zunipus.blogspot.com http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/dwaynecameronfanclub http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ymorare --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
