Wren, Congratulations on your "new" Pismo! I know just how you feel... ;-)
Seating right the Pismo processor is actually a little tricky and not very intuitive. Normally one handles all those parts very gingerly, but seating a Pismo processor calls for pushing it HARD until it CLICKS. The first few times I was very scared of breaking it, but then I realized that the Pismo innards are so well designed that there's practically no way of misaligning the CPU card. Felix On May 27, 5:55 pm, wren <[email protected]> wrote: > How cool, John. :) I envy you! > > Rebooted - and it is behaving normally. At first it couldn't find the > time server (pram battery is dead and unplugged), but after reboot it > is chugging along peacefully once again. > > Admittedly, that was pretty scary when it wouldn't boot - but I did > learn an awful lot. It was a lot easier and faster to take it apart > the second time. I have this crazy desire to find a broken discarded > pismo and work on it. > > Thank you all very much for helping me out with this. I'm so glad you > suggested I give it a try. So worth it! > > Side note: A wooden popsicle stick is very helpful in taking apart and > putting back together - reseating connectors etc. without risk of > conductivity. > > The only directions I found vague on the ifixit site revolved around > the clutch cover and inverter board. (I'm a newbie - what can I say?) > Otherwise those instructions were perfection. Oh - maybe add that > suggestion of pressing down the processor firmly - that would be one > small thing for others like me to consider. > > THANK YOU! > > On May 27, 4:48 pm, John Carmonne <[email protected]> wrote: > > > G3 PowerBooks rule! > > I have a Wally with a G4 500 MHz processor coming to add to the G3 PB > > stable. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, 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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
