SORRY IN ADVANCE FOR A LONG POST............. hi all and thanks for the great input about my dying pb100. to clarify, i have gotten it to successfully boot using an ext. floppy in the past, but using every SCSI tool i could get my hands on (silverlining, apple hd sc setup, scsi probe, etc), all i could see was the firmware (a conner 20M). the drive would spin up and click audibly, but not in the normal fashion. instead of rapid short clicking, it would do something like this: _CLICK_ CLICK CLIck CLick Click click click click click click click click. (loud at first then gradually fading out, about a dozen clicks total. then it would pause for a sec and try again, a few times before giving up) BUT IT GETS BETTER!!! I recently went overseas to Korea, which uses the 220V standard (i live in USA) that the pb100 power supply supports (because as 100 users should know the lifetime of a leadacid battery is terrible). I brought the pb100 along just for fun, as i had some b&w games on a floppy. Lo and behold, when i plug it in and press any key, the startup disk is given back to me and the pb boots into sys 7! (i was using 6.0.8L on a floppy for its mini footprint). the HD was somehow revitalized!!! but the FD went kaput. it would make little or no "grinding" noises that are akin to reading floppies. and when a disk was inserted, the pb would tell me it was not initialized. when i would try to initialize it, one of two things would happen: either the init would fail and the floppy would come back out, or the screen would go dim (not completely dim, and the brightness knob was able to turn it below that), and the pb would reboot itself. my theory is that there is a short inside the fd that is suddenly draining WAY too much power from the pb, causing it to suddenly dim and reboot. NOW HERE'S THE HARD PART: I came back to the USA very confused. when i got home, the FD still did not work, but guess what? neither did the HD. it made the same noises as before i left the country.
to the offer of the parts-only pb100: what exactly is working on the pb100, and where are you for shipping? (i'm in 98092: seattle-tacoma area) to loyal pb100-er's: any similar problems? i know you're all trying the best, but i think that your diagnosis(es?) are wrong :-( could it maybe be my power supply? to any other people who might read my post: should i just give it up and buy a used ppc powerbook? i know the 100 is the smallest of all pb's until (i think) the ibook 12.1". i want to try to get this one running again before i fashion a battery mount to replace the thoroughly dead lead-acid. thanks to all, alan _______________________________________________________ Made on a PC-- powered by a MacAddict trying to escape! -- 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
