My Reply follows quote. On 10/09/2003 08:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >On Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:48 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have an old Wallstreet that I >> tricked out a while ago, 466 Newertech processor, 512 RAM memory, and it's >> run like a beast without much hassle. Recently my 12G hardrive that I had >> dropped in when I upgraded my Pismo started to make some clicking sounds >> then made the clicking sound of death while I was doing a clean install of >> OS9. I pulled out the dead drive and I grabbed an unintialized 40G hard >> drive and using the usual static precautions dropped it into the Wallstreet >> hoping to initialize the drive and install the OS. Well, now all I get >> when I hit the power button is a buzzing sound. When I reset the PMU with >> shift+fn+control+power all is silence, then when I release the keys the >> green power light goes on for a second, the screen flickers, and it dies >> again. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much in >> advance, >> Ben > >Welcome to the Sleep Of Death. Basically the new hard drive has a more >powerful magnet than the hard drives that shipped with every G3 Series >PowerBook, and the magnetic switch that is supposed to signal to the Mac >that >the lid is closed gets tripped. > >If you go to xlr8yourmac and look up Toshiba and IBM hard drives for >Wallstreet you can get links to the modding info you need to fix this >problem. Basically you are going to need to use a non-conductive piece of >metal as a shield for the side of the new hard drive where the magnet lives, >and you might have to reset the magnetic switch with another magnet. > >Your Wallstreet isn't dead...it's just SLEEPING..... ------------ Hmmm. When I had my Wallstreet stripped to its bones, I could have sworn that the magnetic reed switch was located on the left side of the case while the HD is located on the right side of the case. A VERY powerful magnet?
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