20 Most Recent Apple PowerBook G3 Mac Notebook Questions & Answers

Good question, the wall street is the same as the Pismo. A great and simple machine. I recommend using os x 10.4 as the highest level. You install the system disc in the optical drive and restart it from its pop up menu. then it will prompt you for each step. You can also hold down the option key on startup to select the disc to boot from. There is a list of key commands on apple support. Easy way to do it is to just let the disk prompt you after it restarts.

The Powerbook G3 will be using the original USB architecture and I suspect that your flash drives are using USB 2 and are not backwards compatible, so sorry I don't really think it is possible.

I dont think it has a slot. I recommend to use a usb wireless card.


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If you have another Macintosh that is working correctly, you can copy the contents of that hard-drive, including the Operating System onto an external hard drive.
To do this, install Carbon Copy Cloner on the working machine and plug in an external hard-drive. Then run Carbon copy cloner and make the source the computer's hard drive most likely named "Macintosh HD". Then choose to have your external hard drive be the drive where all of the data is copied. Then run the program and let it copy all of the files.
Once this is done, remove the external drive from the computer and plug it into your G3. Turn on your G3 while holding the Option (alt) key and then double click on the hard-drive image that is named whatever your external hard-drive is named.
Once your system boots up from the external hard drive, run Carbon Copy Cloner again and repeat the process again except have the source be your external drive and have the internal drive in your G3 be the disk that has all the data copied to it. Once this is done, turn off your computer, remove the external drive, and then boot up your computer again.
You will have an exact clone of the computer that you copied the data from and will just simply need to adjust the account settings as such as you see fit.

The external drive process can be skipped if you have a firewire cable. Simply connect the firewire cable to both computers and when you turn on your G3, hold the "T" key. This will turn your G3 into an external hard drive and you just have to carbon copy the files straight to your computer's internal hard drive.
If you do not have access to another computer mac computer, then you will need to go to the Apple Store and see if the Genius Bar can install the default operating system that your computer came with.
If for some odd reason you have the contents of an Mac OS install disc copied onto a flash drive or external hard drive, you can boot from that and use it in place of a disc.

Je moet in staat zijn om de handleiding voor de macht boek G3 vinden op
http://support.apple.com/nl_NL/manuals/#powerbook Hoop dat dit helpt.

Hi,
You need to reset the BIOS then Please get it reset at dealer or local shop.
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Not much information here...
I'm guessing you're trying to play a movie or music?
If so, go get VLC from here, it plays everything!

this sounds like a OS error, rather than graphics/memory.
I would run a repair install from the OS disks.

Hello,

When you power on the laptop, is there a sign that it boots? if yes, then it may be that the laptop did not shut don properly when last used, try the following, unplugged the power, took the battery out, held the power button for 60 seconds - then plugged back in the power cord and tried to boot it up like normal. or remove the battery and hold down the power button it would seem to be an issue with the laptop retaining some residual charge which is preventing the laptop from booting.

Check the status of your laptop battery itself. There should be a battery indicator on the laptop that is connected to the battery. This indicator is either on the bottom of the laptop or (likely) on the side. If there is no indicator, your battery itself may be the problem, and may require replacing. Keep in mind that older batteries of the nickel-cadmium variety are more likely to decharge over time and forget their initial maximum charge level; this may be a particular issue to users of older laptops.

Find a VGA connector and hook up your laptop to an external monitor if the above steps have not alleviated the blank-screen problem. Turn on the computer and the external monitor. Does the external monitor light up? If so, the blank screen is likely due to a video subset problem/LCD problem in your laptop.

Consider that a deeper problem may exist if the external monitor did not light up This problem may lie in the motherboard. In this case, you need to replace the mother board.

Take care.

The easiest way if your Powerbook doesn't come equipped with an Airport card or isn't capable of supporting an Airport card is to purchase this http://www.sonnettech.com/product/aria_extreme.html it slides into the PCMIA slot on your Powerbook G3 (the credit card sized slot on the side of your Powerbook G3). There's support issues and model variations on older Powerbook G3's regarding Airport Card support and they're not as readily available as a standard PCMIA wireless card. This is my best suggestion for your situation.

If you have an external harddrive enlosure, attached your G3's harddrive to your MacBook Pro. Launch your Disk Utility. Applications folder > Utilities folder > Disk Utility. Select the hard drive in the left hand column and click on the Erase tab.

first start it with the left hand shift key depressed (not the shift lock above it ) this will cause it to safe boot and do some housekeeping on the drive,next if you can get it running is to go to applications and in there find utilities and select disc utility, select your hard drive and press repair permissions, the shop should have run this after the install. It takes a long time, mine takes 15 mins but if it is having trouble it can take longer. After this has finished verify the drive, if this needs work you will need a start up/ install ****, get back to me if thsi doen not cure it.

since apple drives are formatted in HSF+, a file system that windows cannon read, the chances of it even being bossible to run anything on it from a PC is very very slim.

Hi,


Did you check in preferences what it's set to? (System Preferences, then Energy Saver)

There's a setting calling "hot corners" or something like that, that causes the machine to automatically sleep if you put the mouse cursor into one of the four corners of the screen.Try moving your mouse into each corner and see if it goes into sleep mode. If it does, go into your controls and turn it off.

Check whether the sleep is set to some minutes.

Finally just download and install a program called Temperature Monitor as I have a suspicion that maybe it's overheating as nothing else seems to make sense. Someone on Macintouch also mentioned this.
If your cpu temp is between 80 and 85 degrees C it goes to sleep automatically.that's waay too high, 60C is about the limit I'd want to see a CPU temperature at. I'm fairly sure you're going to have to have someone look at it. Do you have Apple care in effect still? It may be worth picking up if not, if possible.


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Your mac doesn't recognize the system folder. Try to find the original boot disks that came with the machine, and see if you can mount the hard disk while booting from the CDs. If you can, I'd backup the data as soon as possible and reinstall the operating system, including a full hard drive reformat. If you can't see the hard drive from the boot cd, another option is to hold down the T key during startup to boot the mac into "target disk mode" - this will allow you to hook up the g3 to another computer as an external hard disk in order to back up the data.

If you are running OS X put the appropriate system disk in the disk drive. Boot up using the c key. Once booted go up to the file menu and go to the reset password menu and reset your password. viola

When you say Disc ?... do you mean CD drive ? I assume so. You need to "mount" the volume. The modem "IS" a drive... so it mounts itself and also installs itself... this is usually what it does anyway. Thing is it will do this in ANY pc or Mac it is put in. So you can try it in another PC or Mac as well... and see if it works in those. If not you have a problem with the drive/modem.

Here is a repair guide link:

http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Device/PowerBook_G3_Pismo

Click on this link or copy and paste the complete link into your browser.
If I could be of further assistance, let me know. If this helps or solves the issue, please rate it.
Thanks, Joe
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Hi trunzo,

You need to be aware of a couple of issues with PowerBooks.

1) The plug connection (where you plug into the laptop) attaches to the Audio card. This is a point of frequent physical connection failure, either due to abuse or even significant normal wear & tear. It continued being a problem until Apple came out with the MagSafe connector on the Intel MacBooks. If this is bad, you won't be able to charge your battery, so this will need to be determined first.

If you're lucky, you might try plugging it in and _gently_ applying gentle lateral pressure on the plug - - you might be able to _temporarily_ get a connection (the plug should light-up and your battery (if present) should charge. I've been able to get this to work if the break in the sound card isn't too serious, but eventually, this won't work anymore.

2) These computers are now getting to be 8-11 years old. In computer terms, this is advanced old-age, well beyond retirement. While I personally liked the modular design of these computers (I own 4 Wallstreets, all but one are for parts), I wouldn't consider putting a lot of money into these unless I was going to use them as an old-fashioned case for new internal electronics - - for example, dropping in a motherboard/RAM/CPU from a newer MacBook Pro. (The real killer would be replacing the display - _major_ technical challenge there. And there we're talking a _lot_ of money and lots and lots of spare time to do the engineering. Unless you're doing it for a hobby, its not worth it.) Trying to restore one of these to working condition is going to be a challenge in just finding parts or a battery that isn't completely played-out.

If you want to explore this further as a DIY (Do It yourself) project, I highly recommend iFixit.com as a good source for both how-to guides and replacement parts. The URL for the Mac how-to guides is

http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac

If I can be of further assistance, let me know. If this helps or solves the issue, please rate it accordingly.

Thanks in-advance for using Fixya.com,

Jon