Adam,
I was just going through the last week's posts and I have a thought regarding the problem you are having. I have a 5300cs but since the boards are somewhat similar, I have a theory for you. Before I sent mine into Apple for the REA, I noticed that the small pcmcia board (which the pcm/cia cards dock into) was loose where it connects to the logic board. My upper slot would not manually eject. When I had the case opened, I pushed the eject again and could see that the upper button was not even clicking, the vast majority of the time anyhow. The pcmcia card was moveable to about at a 8� angle. However, because the lower slot is closest to the pivot point on the logic board, there was still enough contact being made to operate correctly. (And like yours, it didn't go in as far as in the upper slot!) This distance created on the upper slot also impacted the contact being made for the card itself and I found I had to giggle it once in a while to get it to 'see' a card there. The lower card did not have this problem. I suspect you are having the same issue. It seemed to be fixable by bracing the pcm/cia card so it wouldn't move around. I can't remember now if that was a soldered joint. Since Apple fixed the unit, I didn't have to worry about it. I think I was going to glue a little plastic 45� brace in there to support the small card. Hope this helps. Dave > From: "Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: 3400c PCMCIA slot dying? > Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 20:34:17 +1000 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all, > > Today I got my hands on a nice PowerBook 3400c/200 however I'm having a > problem with the lower PC card slot. > I'm using the slot with a Hayes Optima 288 modem. While the PB can see the > modem fine - though there's often a noticable puase before it shows up on > screen - the manual eject button for that slot refuses to work. > The first time I pushed the button for no result, I started jiggling the > card around to see if it was seated properly, during which it did finally > eject, though that was only a once off. > I can eject the card in software via the Mac OS, so the slot isn't unusable > (yet). > > For what it's worth, the card I have won't go quite as far into the lower > slot as it does into the upper, and when I do eject the card, it seems to be > propelled outwards with noticably greater force than with the upper slot. > > What I'd like to know is if this is the sign of a greater problem which will > get worse in the future, and is there a cure which hopefully won't cost > several times the 'Book's value... > > Cheers, > Adam. > -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
