Two messages here - 1. I received a really helpful email from a member here that is helping me resolve my problem. Just wanted to say that this group of people are amazing. Thank you all. Thank you, specifically, to the person who has offered a direct solution.
2. Kris, I respectfully acknowledge that you have more experience than I do re: hardware. I did try running it with both the PRAM disconnected and connected, but it makes no difference. A fellow who runs a shop for repair was the one who originally clued me in that the PRAM isn't actually necessary to daily use of the Pismo. The date and time would sync off of the internet. Any other function it provided wasn't actually needed for what I was doing. He was the one who advised me to run it for the last few years with it in the case, but disconnected. Having it connected caused problems (which I can not recall right now), while disconnected caused no problems. A dead and connected PRAM battery is problematic, that's all I recall him telling me - it's been a few years. The problem is that it is failing in certain activities now. It can connect to the net via ethernet - but it can't connect wirelessly anymore. It had a huge problem booting from the DVD installer disk. It hung for about 20 minutes before it could find the drive. It goes back and forth between failing to find DVDs, the wireless card, the HD. It took it about 2 hours to run the OS installer again. It ran it, but just barely. Wouldn't these be a motherboard issues? -- 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/
