Powerbook 100

Hi
Like Gail I have two powerbook 100's both are doing the same thing. They both will start to boot up . I can hear the hard drive spin up , it then make a series of clicks pauses then start to click again . After a couple time it stops and you get the question mard disk . If you boot form a floppy it comes boot all the way up . I have tried to run the hd setup program but it reports that it cant find the information for the hd . I have tried 3 different drives in both of the 100's. I also have done both of the resets and replaced the batteries ( the big one and the 3 smaller ones )to no avai.
I have a hard time thinking that both of these powerbooks are bad seeing how they were working a couple years ago when I put they away.I'm looking for any ideas or help .
Joe

Joe,
The drive can be externally attached to a SCSI port, but you would need a suitable 2.5" connector and a power supply. There were portable enclosures (with DB-25F output) available for such drives; typically with said hard drive connector, a SCSI ID switch and a power jack (an external supply provided 5 V DC).
You could make a Network Access floppy from the download here, if you have access to another older Mac (with a built-in floppy drive). This floppy is bootable. It can be modified to hold Apple HD SC Setup 7.3.5 (here) or Drive Setup 1.7.3 (here).
You could also use the Network Access floppy unmodified as intended. A Mac printer cable MiniDIN-8M to MiniDIN-8M can be connected between one of your PowerBook computers and the other machine (the Printer Port). If you boot the PB 100 (with its non-working hard drive installed) from the Network Access disk, you could then use programs (e.g., various disk utilities) placed on the hard disk of the other computer, and should thus be able to run further tests. Alternatively, you could of course use the other SCSI drive that you mentioned above for all this.
Jan

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Dead hard drive on Powerbook 100?

I think my Powerbook 100, which I never use but keep out of sentiment, may finally be dead. Symptoms: I can't get it to start up and produce a smiley face except using a startup disk in the external floppy drive. There is no hard drive icon on the desktop. If I try to install the software from the external disk, it doesn't recognize the existence of any other disk onto which to install.
I've tried the reset/interrupt button trick, to no avail.
I have not replaced the little battery--is there any point in doing that?
And I can't find the original instruction book except for the quick-start version.
Any ideas? Thanks!

Hi,
You could always try a PRAM reset to begin with.
It cannot be ruled out that the hard drive is defective. Do you hear any sounds?
Are you using an original (System 7.0.1) startup/tools floppy right now?
If the hard disk is spinning (and if you have access to a second old Macintosh computer), you could also try another disk utility (such as Apple HD SC Setup 7.3.5 here or Drive Setup 1.7.3 here). Post back if you need advice regarding floppy modifications et cetera.
Battery issues have been discussed e.g. in this FAQ. There you will also find additional information about hard drive detection problems.
Jan

Powerbook 100 sadmacs on boot

I'm trying to fix a powerbook 100. I recived it second hand, and before I got it, it was clicking and displaying a floppy disk icon, so I know that it must work on some level.
When I tried to turn it on after switching out the hard drive with a good one, it gave me a sad mac with a white line going down a little left of the center. Error code is 03001300 00001FFA. I've tried looking this up, as well as sad mac error codes both in general and for this machine, and the closest I've found is a list of some macintosh portable error codes, none of which matched up.
I've tried the following things to get it working:
boot with and without PRAM batteries
replace pram batteries
boot with and without lead acid battery
tried a 3rd party power adapter
resoldered the power connector
boot with both the original and replacement hard drives
boot without a hard drive attached
Booted with pram battery switch on back in both positions
Boot with and without both ram expansion card, and CPU daughter card.
As soon as it powers up, it displays a pattern of lines quickly and then sadmacs. If I take the CPU daughter card out, it'll give the lines without the sad mac.
Is there anything I've overlooked? I really dont want to go ebay hunting for a new motherboard, which I fear is the problem here.

Well, I found reference to your error message here, but...
[http://www.silicium.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2168&start=0&sid=7dd73e5ec3f09f31 8149c22a6db06e6d]
They also seem to be discussing RAM, although a Google translation of the French leaves one to wonder. "My Mac laptop (yes the first heavy white person wanted..."
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Retrieve Data from a PowerBook 170

This is a follow-up to my post "Powerbook 145 apparently dead". I elected not to replace the fuse because I feared I wouldn't be able to properly install the new one, or that the problem that caused the fuse to blow will still be there and the new one will blow too.
So, I bought a PowerBook 170 on eBay, swapped its hard disk for my old one, and booted it up. And sure enough, everything was exactly the way I left it 10 years ago. So now I'm wondering how to transfer those documents to my 2009 Mac Pro with OS 10.6 - not an easy tasks, considering these machines have no interfaces in common. Here are what I consider to be my three options (please advise if there are others) -
1) Transfer using floppy disks: I have a working USB floppy drive and a copy of TransMac 9.1 on my Bootcamp Windows 7 installation (since 10.6 no longer reads the HFS disks, only HFS+), so I can transfer via floppy disks. This will be the least convenient but the cheapest since I already have all the equipment (except a stack of floppy disks).
2) Attempt to burn a CD: I don't know of any CD-RW's that would work with the PowerBook 170 running System 7. If anyone does (and it's possible to find it at a reasonable price), please let me know.
3) Attempt to network the PowerBook: I found a third-party SCSI to ethernet adapter that has a driver for System 7 and user testimonials that claim it works with the PowerBook 100 series. That might let the PowerBook onto the internet, but there's no guarantee the Mac Pro will be able to see it on the network. Also, this adapter is exceedingly rare and commands a substantial price on eBay.
So... what should I do?
Thanks in advance!

Update: It was a tedious process, but I have done it. I transferred everything from my PowerBook 145's hard disk using Method 1 as described in my original post. The gist of it is as follows:
1) I saved everything from the old PowerBook to floppy disks, using segmented archives created by ZipIt 1.3.5 where necessary (i.e., a single document or program was larger than a floppy disk's capacity), including third-party system files.
2) I imaged each disk using TransMac 9.1 running in Windows 7 on my Bootcamp installation.
3) I consolidated the contents of all the individual disk images into one image using DiskCopy in Mac OS 9 on Sheepshaver (a very useful, albeit not very stable, PPC emulator, for those of you unfamiliar with it). This was not technically necessary, but it would be convenient when it came time to transfer the data in step 4.
4) I created a disk image in BasiliskII (a 68k Mac emulator with a similar interface to Sheepshaver) and installed System 7.1 on it, which was the OS that my old PowerBook had. Then I transferred the contents of the disk image containing all my transferred files. The end result was a nearly exact (there may have been hidden files that didn't transfer, but otherwise it's complete) clone of my PowerBook's hard disk that's bootable in the emulator, so theoretically it will be forever accessible on my Mac Pro running OS X.
Anyway, hopefully this will help someone who's in the same position. On a side note, I really wanted to go with Method 3, but that SCSI to Ethernet adapter I found on eBay sold for $86 and would probably have necessitated the purchase of an intermediate machine, i.e. an early G3 PowerMac, to complete the process. This wasn't really an option as I'm still a starving grad student.

Power Book 100

Here's the question.
I have an old powerbook 100 without a power supply. I found a universal power supply, you know the type selectable voltage and reversible polarity.
What I don't know is what the polarity of the connector socket on the back of the power book is.
Does anyone know if it is Centre Pin + or Centre Pin -
There is also a two position switch to the right of the DC socket and I don't understand the symbols I can't make out if it is a selector switch between battery and mains or a polarity reversal switch ?
Can any one help
I would like to try and see if it boots but don't want to risk blowing the computer or my digital PSU

More notes on the PB 100 here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=16168
points worth noting ( direct quotes from that page:
Note: "This adapter was replaced by model M4662."
"The fourth AC adapter, 17 W, came with PowerBook 150 computers, and works with PowerBook 100 or 150 computers.
Warning: Using an AC adapter that produces more than 19 W with a PowerBook 100 or 150 computer will damage the computer's logic board."
The irony is that the M5140 for the PB 100 was repalced by the same power supply that replaced the 24W for the 180c but the warning seemingly contradicts the replacement note.
This also gives some good background info. Still looking for the 100 power supply.
This link:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30804
leads to an outdated PB100 panel link. Time to hit google.
Jim

PowerBook G4 Lifespan

Hello,
I've recently purchased the latest revision of a 12 inch PowerBook G4. I have owned a few desktop Macintosh systems in the past but this is my first laptop and so far it has been a great experience.
I was wondering what would the approximate lifespan of this computer's LCD screen and other hardware be. I have heard from some people that the LCD screen of a laptop generally begins to degrate after a couple of years of use, but I wanted to hear from the owners of Apple's laptops on this board regarding this issue to be certain.
Thank you for your time!
Vladimir

Powerbooks from the last few years have been helped by Apple's steady speed increases in OS X. However, I think that has been pretty much tapped out by now; 10.4 improvements were pretty well confined to the user interface and Open GL (3D graphics). I doubt Apple will get sloppy like Microsoft though; there's going to be a whole new incentive on Intel to make sure the software is up to snuff.
I'm more worried by the physical quality of the machines. I just don't think today's computers are up to the standards of the early ones like the Powerbook 145 and Powerbook 100. I remember dropping a hardcover book on my 145 from a great height and nothing whatsoever happened. And the 100 is proof you can design even a subnotebook and still have it be solid. I think we've lost that with most current laptops, PC and Mac. I hope that as forthcoming Pentium-M chips start to get us down toward the power consumption of those early machines that we can also get back to those construction standards and away fron needing sonething like easily bendable and warpable aluminum as a giant heat sink. Now that components are so small -- hard drives less than half as thick as they used to be for example, and LCD display panels dropping to less than 3mm thick for the whole assembly -- I think we should go back to some of those thicker and tougher plastics for the case.

ITunes Visualizer display problem

I have not had any issues with my new Intel iMac until today when I tried to play some songs with my kids and turn the visualizer to full screen in iTunes. The Visualizer works fine in all window sizes but when I click full screen the screen goes black while the music continues to play. It is very strange because while nothing will get it back to the normal view (escape, clicking the mouse, etc) I can change the song in the library by moving the mouse and clicking randomly (I can't see the cursor at all). Apparently the cursor is still active yet nothing is on the display.
The only way I can get this to end is to put the computer to sleep by pushing the power button at which point it wakes up normally and resumes normal operation until the next time I try the full screen visualizer. No restart is needed to correct it.
I decided to post this here rather than the iTunes forum because I thought it might relate to some of the graphics issues that 20"Intel iMac users have experienced.
Has anyone else had this issue? Could someone try it out to see if it happens to other machines like the video tearing issue? I will also report this to Apple directly but wanted to see if anyone else has this issue.
Thanks
Intel iMac 17" 2GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.4) G4 867, PowerMac 6500, Centris 610, Powerbook 100, etc...

I ended up contacting AppleCare through the Chat agent and after a few misses, he instructed me to do an archive and install and presto - the problem is gone. I guess I had a corrupted installation from the factory.....

Canon, Sony, JVC -compatibility-what works for the family guy?

I want to buy a minidv camera that connects by firewire and is the most compatible to make movies and edit them on my mac in Imovie HD then archive them to a dvd that I will burn on the imac. It's that simple or is it? What do you guys say? I'm tring to keep the costs down on the camera. I'm not a pro. There is a lot of compatiblity issues out there. It's very discouraging. I don't want headaches just fun!

I do own a Sony for years, TRV14... and my first "laptop" was an Apple Powerbook 100 - manufactured by <tadaaa> Sony...
... back to topic:
you really believe, a 8cm disk contains 30min of 800kPix/30fps? .. that 800kPix fullfill any video standards as NTSC/PAL...? that a lossy compressor as mp2 allows ANY quality with such a bitrate....(which defines pic quality on a disk, not what getting onto a ccd....)?
mpegs are just editable within the GOPs... any frame-precisions needs an "estimation" of content, due to the nature of this playback-codec....
... sorry, pal, the technique behind a dvd-recorder is a little more complex then any marketing-dept allows to write in any ad...
and that "immidiately" thing, in a thread a while ago, we remembered that endless evenings in the dark with our Dads, showing zillions of "un-edited"(=selected) slides... even after 20 years of doing homerecording, I will NEVER ever show unedited footage to anyone...
final word:
"don't like" is not enough, has to be "hate" (in capitals)? ... what a world....

System 7 installation disk

Hello Classic users,
I found my ancient Powerbook 520 in the attic and it coudln't boot, lacking an operating system.
Is there a way to get original System 7 installation floppies?
I remember, that there is a download, but I wasn't able to create bootable floppy disk from the images back then.
Greetings

Hello,
The original System 7.1.x for the PowerBook 520 was never available for download from Apple. Were you thinking about the downloadable System 7.5.3 (nineteen files US), which is not a normal set of system floppies (once decoded, the files are segments of one large self-mounting disk image)?
To begin with, are you sure that the hard disk does not contain an operating system? Sometimes, a PRAM reset (holding down the four keys Command=Apple + Option + P + R until a second startup sound is heard) can help the computer locate a system folder. You may also want to try a Power Manager reset (PowerBook 100 through PowerBook 5300: Resetting Power Management Unit (PMU) - Apple Support).
A Network Access Disk 7.5 (http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English -North_American/Macintosh/Utilities/Network_Access_Disk_7.5.sea.bin) will work as a boot disk for a PowerBook 520. In order to create a properly sector-copied floppy, you would need another old (pre-1998) Macintosh computer with a built-in floppy drive. Keep the downloaded file encoded .bin until on that machine. Once there, an appropriate version of StuffIt Expander is used to decode the .bin. Following that, Disk Copy 4.2 (http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English -North_American/Macintosh/Utilities/Disk_Copy/Disk_Copy_4.2.sea.bin) allows you to create a bootable floppy from the Network Access.image (the Make A Copy button).
Post back if you do not have access to a suitable StuffIt Expander version, or if you do not have access to another old Mac. If absolutely necessary, there are ways of creating Mac floppies under certain Windows systems using special techniques.
Jan

"Knowledge Archive"

As a real information hound, I wonder how many of you are aware that Apple once had in it's "Knowledge Base" links to the "Knowledge Archive".
Here's a list of products covered in the Knowledge Archive:
Computers:
Apple II
Apple II+
Apple IIe
Apple IIc
Apple IIc Plus
Apple IIGS
Macintosh (128k)
Macintosh 512k (fat Mac)
Macintosh 512ke (with 800 K disk drive)
Macintosh Plus
Macintosh SE
Macintosh II
Macintosh IIx
Macintosh IIcx
Macintosh IIci
Macintosh IIfx
Macintosh IIsi
Macintosh Classic, Classic II, Color Classic
Macintosh LC
Macintosh LC II
Macintosh LC III
All Macintosh LC Series Computers
Macintosh Portable
All Performa Series Computers
Quadra 605
Centris/Quadra 610
Centris/Quadra 650
Quadra 800
Macintosh TV
Workgroup Server 60
Workgroup Server 80
All PowerBook 100, 200, 500 Series Computers
All PowerBook 1400, 2400, 5300 Series Computers
PowerBook Duo 200 series
Operating System Software:
AIX
Apple IIGS System 5.0 (also called GS/OS)
Apple IIGS System 6.0 (also called GS/OS)
A/UX 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.0.1
DOS 1.4
DOS 3.3
ProDOS 8
ProDOS 16
System 4.2
System 5.0
System 6 (6.0, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.0.5, 6.0.7)
System 7 (7.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3)
Application/Networking Software:
Apple Access III
Apple Backup
Apple Internet Connection Kit
Apple Media Tool
Apple Personal Diagnostics
Apple Remote Access 1.x, 2.x
Apple Terminal Server
Apple Video Player
ApplePhone
AppleScript (versions prior to 1.3.1)
AppleSoft Basic
AppleSearch 1.0, 1.5
AppleShare 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.0.1
AppleShare PC
AppleSoft Basic
AppleTalk
AppleTalk for VMS
AppleWorks (for the Apple II)
At Ease 2.x, 3.x, 4.x
Avid Cinema
Backup II
Claris CAD
Claris Emailer 1.0, 1.1, 2.0
Claris Resolve
DAL (Data Access Language)
Desk Accessories
HDSC Setup
Educational Software Bundles
Fonts
HyperCard
GS Basic (also known as Apple IIGS Basic)
PC Exchange
Performa Software
MacAPPC
MacCheck
MacDFT
MacDraw II
MacDraw Pro
MacPaint
MacTerminal 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 3.0
MacWorkstation 3.0
MacWrite 4.5, 4.6, 5.0
MacWrite II 1.0, 1.1, 1.5, 1.5v2
MacX
MousePaint
PATHWORKS (for Macintosh)
QuickDraw GX
QuickTime 1.x, 2.x
WiggleWorks
Printers:
Apple Daisy Wheel Printer
ImageWriter I
ImageWriter II
ImageWriter LQ
LaserWriter
LaserWriter Plus
LaserWriter II (SC, NT, NTX)
LaserWriter IIf
LaserWriter IIg
LaserWriter Pro 600
LaserWriter Pro 630
LaserWriter Pro 810
Personal LaserWriter LS
Personal LaserWriter NT
Personal LaserWriter NTR
Personal LaserWriter SC
StyleWriter
StyleWriter II
Other Peripherals:
Apple 300/1200 Modem
Apple II Memory Card
Apple II Language Card
Apple II Video Overlay Card
Apple IIe Card
Apple IIe SCSI Card
AppleCD products
Apple Design Powered Speakers (I and II)
Apple Ethernet LC Card
Apple Serial NB Card (NB stands for NuBus)
Apple Token Ring Card 4/16
EtherTalk NB Card (NB stands for NuBus)
LocalTalk PC Card
Multimedia products
Macintosh Display Card 4*8, 8*24, 8*24GC
Macintosh II Video Card
Macintosh II High-Resolution Video Card
Super Serial Card
Apple has apparently decided to remove the "Knowledge Archive" from it's "Knowledge Base". I believe this is a huge judgement error as the preponderance of this old information is extremely valuable to us old product fanatics.
If you agree, please bombard Apple with any method of correspondence you can muster and lets see if we can get Apple to reinstate this wonderful resource.
Power to the Apple People. What do you Say?
The original "Knowledge Archive" URL is: <karchive.info.apple.com>

Denis & Jim:
Go to: <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=43080> for the Index. I have discovered the only way into the "Knowledge Archive", albiet by the back door, is to type in the URL: <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=> and, starting with the number "1" AFTER THE "=" SIGN, and incrementing upward from there (2, 3, 4, ...), you get in. Denis said (I believe) he found 63 articles of old. Well, If you do my method, you find many THOUSANDS of articles on the really ancient hardware, software and support material. This would occupy many CDs, if not DVDs.
Denis points out that he gets some older info from the Developer site. This is true, however you will not find info much earlier than the Quadra line or system 7.5.3 for a rough example (off the top of my head.) Apple's early stuff is the Apple II line and the Lisa and Mac XL (for hardware) and system 4.2 and many arcane software programs. This is what I've been referencing all along and seems to be only available through my manual, incremental search as outlined above.
I am currently downloading (compiling) all of the articles starting with article #1 (please note there are gaps in the numbering sequence (page not found)) and am up to article 900 and the date on these articles is still hovering around 1984/1985. It is amazing what I'm finding.
Posts to this subject don't get at the main thrust of my subject, which is to say, in order to reference documentation for the Apple products of OLD (really OLD), one must get in through the manual method outlined above. I'm not referring to the stuff from the 1990's.
Try the "method" for yourself and you will see what I mean.
Happy Hunting, surroundguy

USB Drive Boot Interference

Greetings,
I have three external FW drives, including one that is a bootable clone of my primary boot volume. I recently added a fourth 500GB USB drive for additional media storage for my AppleTV. My problem is that unless I unmount the USB drive and physically disconnect it I cannot reboot my computer. The boot process stalls at the grey screen before I even see the Apple logo.
My guess is that the system is looking at that USB drive for a bootable partition and for some reason never moves on. Has anyone else experienced this? Any thoughts on a remedy?
I boot into Windows XP fairly regularly for my son to play a certain game, so it is kind of a hassle to do this all the time. IIf this can't be solved, I think I will just buy another FW case and relocated the drive from the USB enclosure to the FW case.
Thanks in advance for your help
Intel iMac 17" Mac OS X (10.4.9) AppleTV, G4 867, PowerMac 6500, Centris 610, Powerbook 100, etc...
Intel iMac 17" Mac OS X (10.4.9) AppleTV, G4 867, PowerMac 6500, Centris 610, Powerbook 100, etc...

I assume you're experiencing this problem when restarting from Windows to Mac?
It does sound like the Mac is searching all available volumes for system software. If you're using the Option button during start-up (to select between Mac and Windows) then you're telling the Mac to do this.
If the USB drive has a power button, try turning it off during restart.
If it gets power from the Mac, then you will have to disconnect it.
The only other work around is to select the Startup Disk each time before restarting:
Mac:
Apple Menu > System Preferences... > Startup Disk
Windows:
Start Menu > Control Panels > Startup Disk
iMac 20" Intel Core Duo 2.1 GHz, 1 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.9) PowerBook Titanium G4 400 MHz, 768 MB RAM

Advice for "Pro-sumer" usage

I do a lot of photography, mainly of my kids, but I also do some advanced astrophotography with my Digital Rebel. I am not a pro, but with close to 10K images, I find that iPhoto is some what limiting. I currently only shoot in RAW when I am using my telescopes and use a specialty stacking and processing application called Images Plus for that work.
I am wondering if moving to Aperture and starting to shoot all of my work in RAW format will be all that beneficial to me. I use Photoshop and know how to work with images, but to date I have always shot in jpeg formats because it was too much of a hassle to deal with RAW files.
Now that Aperture is priced a bit more reasonably, what advice would those of you that use it give to someone who doesn't make a living with it, but wants a bit more than what iPhoto has to offer? Would I benefit from the workflow in Aperture?
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Intel iMac 17" Mac OS X (10.4.6) G4 867, PowerMac 6500, Centris 610, Powerbook 100, etc...

Tom, if your iMac is a 2GHz model, then we're using pretty much the same computer except that mine is a 20".
I'm not a professional, just an enthusiast. there's nothing better than going out 'hunting', trying to get a better photo of the birds or animals around my home than last time. I'm taking a lot of photos but haven't reached your library's size yet.
I'm very particular though. I don't use Photoshop because it costs too much and it has too many functions that I don't need. I simply need to improve my photos through basic functions such as white balance, contrast, exposure, etc.
iPhoto 6 was ok but very limiting. Aperture makes it very easy for me to:
(a) go through each photo from a day's take and quickly identify and mark the out-of-focus or non-aesthetic images, even at pixel resolution using either the Zoom function or the Loupe. comparing and ranking images is easy too.
(b) organising the photos into groups with no limit of nesting and duplicate names.
(c) multi-tiered keywords. I search for 'Insects' and automatically get Spiders, Butterflies, and everything else in my collection under that category.
(d) touch-up the images. the touch up tools are just what I need on a regular basis. if you're a Photoshop guy, then you might find the tools lacking but I have all I need there and I'm sure there'll be more with future versions if I ever find myself with too much time on my hands.
what do I find lacking in Aperture? I'd like to be able to build my own custom Web Gallery templates/themes. I already have a custom-built photo html/css album. I'd really like to duplicate it in Aperture.
btw, I shoot everything in RAW and I'm using a Canon EOS 350D, the Asian version of your camera. Aperture's rendering of my photos has been great except for several photos where shadow area under one leg of a resting dog was rendered greenish. I've reported it to Apple. it'll be interesting to see if they fix it.
fire away if you have any more questions.

Cleaning screen on iBook

hey there,
was wondering what i can use besides my feather duster to clean the screen on my iBook, any liquid to get the finger prints off?

Hi Jennifer. I'm a certified Mac repair guy and I've been using an ammonia based foam spray glass cleaner like BonAmi or Glance since the PowerBook 100 became available (1990 or so) and I've never had a problem with residue or any kind of damage to the laptop screens, ever. In fact I doubt you could get cat nose uck or finger prints off with just water. Finger print marks are composed of an acidic oil and so you'd need more than water to disolve the oil. You will eventually see small squares on your screen that are made by the keys on the keyboard that are etched into the plastic of the screen by the oil that's been on the keys. So it's important to clean it often. Just wipe the foam with a paper towel and it's done. If it's particularly marked you might have to do it twice.

Duo 230 Startup problems

While docking my Duo 230 (while running) it shut down suddenly. When I went to restart I heard the usual chimes - the hard drive spinning up and the happy mac face on the screen - then after a few minutes (happy mac on the screen still) I get the floppy disk icon with the blinking question mark - not sure what happened. I undocked the computer - hit the reset button - same experience - chimes - hard drive running - then the floppy icon with question mark.
I have used this computer off and on for the last few years - I like the simplicity of the operating system and so far the reliability. I have some important info that I need to recover - also would like to get the computer running again. I used to own an emergency startup Norton disk which of course I can't find. Any ideas.

You may have lost the integrity of the Parameter RAM. Parameters such as the last running OS Type, version, and preferred startup disk can cause the blinking question mark to appear.
58416- PowerBook 100 through PowerBook 5300: Resetting Power Management Unit (PMU)
If no joy from that, you may have damaged the Hard Disk Driver, stored in a "special place" near the start of the drive. The HD SC Setup or Drive Setup function "Update Driver" can sometimes get that working again. Got a "Disk Tools" diskette?
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Im Screwed

Well See My iPod Nano fell in to the water and I Promise it was only two seconds and I hurried up and grabbed it.. And when I picked it up the screen wouldnt stop flashing and it said something on my iPod about some firewall or something I cant remember. And I hooked it up to the USB cable thing or whatever and the screen now says USB cable provided and my comp now says it cant recognize the device so i took the iPod off the cable thing and its not even flashing anymore and the screen is just frozen no matter what i do its juss not working its just stuck on that screen! Please help i got this as a present not to long ago and i dont want have to pay for another one!!!!

Hi zqz and Welcome to Discussions.
The message at the top of this forum clearly indicates this is not the correct place to post about iPod questions. In case you missed it, here it is again:
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If your question concerns a hardware or software technical issue, please do not post in this forum — instead, go to the Apple Discussions Homepage, select an appropriate product category and follow the links until you reach the correct forum for your post, then click the Post New Topic link.
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And, incidentally, the iPod Limited Warranty does not cover abuse. As stated in the iPod Limited Warranty <http://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/ipodisight.html> -- This warranty does not apply: (a) to damage caused by accident, abuse, misuse, misapplication, or non-Apple products;
Apple offers an iPod Repair service. For the iPod nano, the cost is US$189. See the Apple iPod Service FAQ for more information.
Kyle-
Daystar Genesis MP528, LC 475, Performa 6300CD, Powerbook 100, iMac G4 1GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9) 512MB RAM, AP Extreme, iPod 4g, PowerMac 5400. Older OSes, too.

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