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2007 / clamshell HD D.O.A

« on: March 09, 2007, 09:01:13 PM »

Thanks, guys I guess I am done honking my own horn. (My wife was not properly impressed.) Anyone know where to get a used keyboard?

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2007 / clamshell HD D.O.A

« on: March 08, 2007, 07:48:12 AM »

 I did it. a brand new 40gig sits snugly inside. It works and I have osx (panther) installed.  it was not all that hard, but it was not easy. I had only on screw left over.
 >>>>>I Fix It's instructions were great<<<<<
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/iBook-G3-C.../HD-Replacement

Now I just need a replacement keyboard.

[not]

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2007 / clamshell HD D.O.A

« on: March 04, 2007, 07:50:54 PM »

QUOTE(MarkM @ Mar 4 2007, 04:45 PM) [snapback]120915[/snapback]

Tedious more than hard, esp. the 1st time.

there will not be a second time

but I am going to order the HDD now.

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2007 / clamshell HD D.O.A

« on: March 04, 2007, 06:15:05 PM »

I saw the fix it slideshow before I came here. I jusdt wanted to get a feel for how hard it was. Sometimes the pix make it look hard, sometimes they make it look all to easy.

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2007 / clamshell HD D.O.A

« on: March 04, 2007, 12:40:23 PM »

I poked around for a while and could not find anything on this. My clamshell's (300mhz g3) HD died, rather, got killed. Authorities have identified a 14.4 volt cordless drill as the intrument of death. It was dropped on it and yes, I am the same guy  idiot who spilled tea on the keyboard a few weeks ago)

Anyway, it won't erase, or reinstall or anything and the instructions for replacing it look like a BPITA    I am wondering is it worth the trouble?
Could I just get a nice portable usb drive and boot from that?
Should I just get a used laptop and sell this to someone who does this kind of stuff?
 I used this for very basic stuff only and the speed has been more great.
 (thanks to adding  512 mem upgrade recommended here)

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2003 / handspring treo

« on: June 29, 2003, 12:09:49 PM »

I just got a handspring treo and went to install the desktop sync software and got an error during install, so I reinstalled it (os9.1 g4 dp533) and the install worked but now the 'hot sync' gives me an -192 error everytime I try to use it or specify a user. I have uninstalled and reinstalled about 5x including tring to run down any bits and pieces that were not uninstalled. Ugh! Still every time I get an error and cant sync the handheld to the mac.
Any thoughts? I have an almost perfect record of never calling customer support.