Powerbook G4 400 DVDrw

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Hi, Martha. After you've taken the entire machine apart and put it back together again multiple times, and without any assurance that your optical drive works or that there's a good OS installation on the hard drive, there is just no way for anyone to guess what might be wrong. It could be anything at all. You're going to have to start with a known-good AC adapter, optical drive and hard drive (ideally with a known-good OS for your PB installed on the latter) and then work your way very systematically through all the hardware assembly steps, checking for errors, loose connections and visible signs of damage every step of the way, until you either isolate the hardware fault or give up. Good luck — you're going to need it.

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    Ok, ive got a g4/4oo pb, it recently had its monitors power cable short and burn. So last night i used a guide to replace the monitor on my own wih a new one from my spare parts (from another powerbook g4/400 mind you) i put it all the way back together and hit the button, it worked. so i went to do a clean install of panther, and my dvd rom drive started to mess up (cd not going in right ect) so i ejected the disc took off the bottom and tried to adjust it, i put it back to gether and IT DOSENT BOOT, no gong sound, nothing, the light on the caps lock key will go on, but no more, so i take it apart again (completely) and after a slight fight with the logic board (it didnt want to go back in) it went back together, still nothing. i have a spare of almost every part (extra ram, another pmu ect.
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    Hi, Martha. After you've taken the entire machine apart and put it back together again multiple times, and without any assurance that your optical drive works or that there's a good OS installation on the hard drive, there is just no way for anyone to guess what might be wrong. It could be anything at all. You're going to have to start with a known-good AC adapter, optical drive and hard drive (ideally with a known-good OS for your PB installed on the latter) and then work your way very systematically through all the hardware assembly steps, checking for errors, loose connections and visible signs of damage every step of the way, until you either isolate the hardware fault or give up. Good luck — you're going to need it.

  • Security Update 2007-5 damaged Powerbook G3-400 Lombard hard drive

    Reporting unfortunate, possibly expensive, very time-consuming crash of my Powerbook G3-400 (Lombard) when I installed Apple's Security Update 2007-5 a couple of days ago:
    • Logged on as admin user, no other app running (that I remember), but still had USB cables in (they were for iPod - not connected, and for external USB jump drive, connected). OS was 10.3.9, with all updates up to that date. Connected to broadband by Ethernet to switch to cable modem, NOT wireless.
    Downloaded, installed, but then during optimization phase got spinning beachball with no progress for over 2 hrs.
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    • Restarted with OS9 CD (no longer have OS X CD, only DVD that does Lombard won't read under OS X): OS X system partition flaky, unable to select it as Startup partition.
    • Opened computer, removed hard drive, put it into external case with FW & USB, inspected HD with another FW computer: while OS X partition could be read (at first), running Disk Util showed it was a bad partition, and had to be re-initialized. Lucky I had backed up all non-OS X applications first!
    • Re-installed OS X from DVD to the external HD case, applied updates.
    • Moved HD back from external case to the PowerBook: now booted OK.
    • Disk Util on HD now shows 3rd partition ("Storage") bad.
    • However - when went to tighten screws of HD carrier and close Powerbook, lost the HD all over again. Best I can figure out now, somewhere in that process, the orange power/data cable connecting the HD to the IDE/Motherboard quit working (broke?), so I now have a dead Powerbook, until the hardware issue is fixed.
    Bottom line: Applying this Security Update led to massive frustrations, frittering of humongous gobs of time (waiting for OS9 to load from CD whenever I tried to test and see if it recognized the internal HDD), and now a dead Powerbook G3. Hopefully a replacement ribbon cable will do the job; although if it's downstream from it (i.e., motherboard connector pins or IDE controller), that's going to be VERY expensive.
    Reading this forum and others, perhaps I should have removed the attached USB devices (cable for iPod but without iPod attached, and USB thumbdrive). Also read somewhere that others have had problems with moving Users folders to separate partitions and symlinking to those cause problems with Security Update.
    However: wish Apple's Security Updates were better behaved, this experience is making me much more scared of applying any updates in future…
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    I hear what you are saying.
    Let's talk about failure probabilities over large populations. These trends may not apply to your specific case, since you do not have a large sample, you have one.
    Of the components you mention, the ones least likely to fail are those that consist only of wires, such as the Hard drive cable. As I recall, it is a flex cable, which is even less likely to die in normal use unless you manage to stretch or pinch it -- it is made to be flexed.
    Next least likely to fail is the motherboard electronics. Those drivers and connectors are meant to be plugged and unplugged a few times, but admittedly are not intended for harsh service, and are sometimes subject to zapping by static.
    Most likely of all these components to fail is the spinning metal disk whose moveable heads fly much closer to the rapidly spinning surface than a smoke particle, a fingerprint, or a human hair. One good shock, or a few dozen smaller ones, and the head could crash onto the surface of the disk, scrubbing off some of the oxide and spraying it over the inside of the drive to cause more problems later.
    If this is the original drive, it was manufactured in about 1999. The manufacturer probably sold the same drive at retail with a one-year warranty. Eight years later it has failed. Even if it is a replacement, it is the most likely the Drives that will fail. Thats why you were wise enough to make a backup.
    I expect that the trouble you are having with multiple partitions is an indication that the disk is dying. The way to determine this is to re-write it with known patterns, and read back all those patterns and note which sectors require hardware error correction (to check for errors). A working drive has a number of spare sectors that can be low-level substituted for ones that are found to be bad during this test.
    The way to accomplish this feat under Mac OS X is to initialize the drive with the "Zero All Data" option. It will take several hours to complete. If it passes, your disk has all good sectors. If it fails, running the test again sometimes does a second level of substitution and allows the drive to initialize OK.
    I do not know your exact situation, but over a large sample, it is more likely that your drive died, and more likely that it is mostly a coincidence that it happened during this update, except that the optimize is known to read and write a lot of data in different parts of the disk.

  • Leopard PowerBook G4 400 mhz ATI Rage 128 Hack

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    Hello Ryan,
    After reading your post, I posted a question on the Pismo G3 forum about whether anyone had tried to install Leopard on a Pismo with a G4 upgraded processor.
    The Pismo has the same video card as the 400 Titanium.
    I received a response form JPL that might interest you:
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    Registered: Jul 27, 2000
    I hope this might help you! PB

  • G4 powerbook Titanium 400

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  • PowerBook G3 400 Mhz Lombard (2001) won't power up, no sign of life

    Problem fixed now but I want to share this (rather scary) experience with anyone facing a similar problem.
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    Note that if your PRAM battery is dead as is the case with mine, the computer will still work fine but it won't save certain things, such as the current time. This is why you'll get a message that says: your computer clock is out of date, etc. Or sometimes something such as a power failure may confuse this battery, so this drill may be useful.
    To test to see if your pram batt is dead, try this: power off the system and connect the pram batt back. Try to restart the Mac. if it starts then the batt probably just needed a flush. If it still won't start, then you need to replace the Pram batt.
    Now I need to go buy a new PRAM battery. But I'm just so relieved that my old machine is still going strong. For a while there I thought I had lost the Powerbook but we all know that these Macs run forever.

    Problem fixed now but I want to share this (rather scary) experience with anyone facing a similar problem.
    All of a sudden the Powerbook G3 Lombard wouldn't turn on. I knew it wasn't the power supply as it worked fine on my other powerbook Clamshell. I'd press the power button and nothing. Not a sign of life anywhere. Suspecting a problem with the connection I went through the hassle of opening up the computer to check the connection (not a fun or necessary job, as it turned out).
    Frustrated and running out of ideas I turned to this forum for help. The very first post I saw was from a user with a similar machine having the exact same problem, following a power outage at his house. It pointed to one small and often ignored little battery, the PRAM battery.
    I didn't think it would make a difference but I followed the steps described by another user responding to that thread and sure enough my machine powers up again! Total time to fix: less than a minute.
    So I want to share these findings in hopes that it helps someone with a similar problem. It really is easy:
    1- Remove the battery, CD/DVD drive and unplug the power supply.
    2- Remove the keyboard by pulling back the two tabs just above the 1 and zero keys (top row), then tilt up the keyboard and it will come off (careful, it connects via a wire so be gentle).
    3- Disconnect the PRAM battery connector. The battery is located just below the DVD drive, so as you remove the drive in step 1, you can see it. It's a brown plastic casing with 3 wires coming out of it, being red, black and white. The connector itself is white. Just gently ply it upwards. This step is critical.
    4- This may not be necessary but do try: press and hold the reset button at the back of the computer for a few seconds (use the end of a ball point pen, button is located beside the Ethernet port.
    5- Plug in your power supply and power that sucker up!
    Note that if your PRAM battery is dead as is the case with mine, the computer will still work fine but it won't save certain things, such as the current time. This is why you'll get a message that says: your computer clock is out of date, etc. Or sometimes something such as a power failure may confuse this battery, so this drill may be useful.
    To test to see if your pram batt is dead, try this: power off the system and connect the pram batt back. Try to restart the Mac. if it starts then the batt probably just needed a flush. If it still won't start, then you need to replace the Pram batt.
    Now I need to go buy a new PRAM battery. But I'm just so relieved that my old machine is still going strong. For a while there I thought I had lost the Powerbook but we all know that these Macs run forever.

  • Differences between PowerBook G3 400 and G3 500

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  • Powerbook G4 400 - 10.4 upgrade

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  • What is the BEST thing to do with my PowerBook?  Any Help?

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  • Optimum OS for PowerBook G3 FIrewire

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    Your PB G3 is called a Pismo model. I have the same Pismo running Tiger 10.4.11. However I have increased my RAM to 768MB and have a 40GB hard drive.
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  • I have an OLD PowerBook G3 and it won't work now.

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    wcslingsby, Welcome to the discussion area!
    No you can not use an AirPort Extreme card with your PowerBook.
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