On 3 Dec 2004, at 08:55, Scott Birdwell wrote:
Hey, Listers!
I'm still struggling with my Wallstreet. It still will not charge the battery. I've replaced the power card and the PMU, but still no go. The battery is "new," purchased off eBay. Any ideas as to where to go from here?
According to the Apple service manual, you should try (in this order): * Resetting the power manager (fn-shift-power) * Using the battery in the opposite expansion bay * Replacing the charge card * Replacing the PMU * Replacing the power card
So, if you haven't done the first 3 steps, there's little point in replacing the PMU or the DC board
In an (supposedly) unrelated issue, when I boot up (OS X.2.8), my screen is blacked out all the way to the log in page. When I hit the brightness button above the keyboard, everything is fine. Odd, but it's not like I can't work around it. However, if I try to boot from the CD, the screen is also black, (I can almost make everything out, but not quite), but the brightness button doesn't help. in other words, I can't repair disks etc. reset logins, etc. from my boot CD. Strange, yes? Anybody encounter this before?
This is a known issue with the Wallstreet under Jaguar. To fix this problem:
* Restart into MacOS 9
* Put the Wallstreet to sleep
* Wake it up again
* Restart into Jaguar
Every time the power is interrupted (i.e. you take the power cord out, while no working battery is present), you will have to repeat the procedure--even if the Wallstreet was turned off at the time you removed the power cord.
Another quirk is that when I try to verify or repair permissions, it makes it only about halfway through and then bogs down. Lastly, I bought a cable at Microcenter this weekend out of the bargain bin. It is for Powerbooks and has a HDI 30 fitting on one end and a SCSI DB M25 fitting on the other end. My intent was to be able to hook my Wallstreet up to a external CDRW or HD. Unfortunately this cable has the wrong end on it. It has the end that plugs into the back of my Umax J-700, S-900, G3 MT, or PowerTower Pro. Is there a "gender/bender" fitting to convert this so I can plug my SCSI CDRW into this cable? Thanks, as always, in advance.
You may have purchased a SCSI disk mode cable, which will cause the PowerBook to start up emulating a SCSI device. If you have, there's not really anything you can do to get it to work other than buying a new cable. They sell for about $5 on eBay. Look for an HDI-30 to Centronics cable--most SCSI peripherals have a Centronics port on them, rather than the DB25.
Cheers, Ben
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