Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / May 2004

My daughter's ibook screen started flickering some yesterday.  Today when she
starts it,  it starts and gets to little spinning lines and then the screen
goes to white.  Any ideas as to the problem or suggestions???
Thanks

So I'm trying to get under the hood a bit with this unix stuff
and am having a few problems.
This was motivated by wanting to get an entirely OS X TeX up and
running (OzTeX, my preferred environment of the past does not

I'm wodering if anyone here has pulled their logic board-
the CPU was bonded to the heat tube assembly with a sticky black pad and
this had to go upon replacing.
I tried thermal grease, did a test fit, tightened the two screws

I've had two Wallstreets die of similar maladies. Both  running Jaguar,
and both get to stage where when you start up, it runs fine for a while
off the power brick then goes to battery and says you will be put to
sleep unless you plug in, but it is plugged in...so I tried ...

I had before 1.33 now 1.50
WHERE IS THE DIFFERENCE

I'm trying to use an Eridol UA-1A USB audio device with my Pismo laptop.
It works but there's a nasty buzz that kind of throbs - gets louder then
quieter - about once a second. And when I click and hold with the USB
mouse (plugged into the other USB port) the buzz disappears. This

How do you edit a web page using apple?
In Windows you can cut & paste text and the colored boxes the text can
be found in.  With the PowerBooks I only get text.  Do I need some
kind of plug to fix this?

Do any of the 500 series PB's have fans? I was wondering because mine seems
to get hot underneath but I never hear a fan.

I have recently purchased an iBook G4 with MacOSX 10.3, having
previously used Windows 95 (and also a while back various Unixes
including SunOS)
What is the best newsgroup in which to ask idiot newbie questions about

A wireless card driver installer tells me that in order to install the driver
I must first remove an conflicting driver (called "DRVR,ENET0") from the
System file.
I don't know what make ethernet adapter was installed in this PowerBook

Something strange happened to me recently when I switched computers
and operating systems.
I used to run OS9 on an iBook 500. I used an external CD-RW to burn a
CD-RW full of documents and images. I filled up that CD-RW to its full

After dropping my G4 PB, the left hinge broke and the backlighting
of the LCD stopped working. I got a new hinge from ebay and
replaced it, hoping that during the procedure I would spot some
ruptured cable. But I did not.... now the new hinge has been

hi, my Dad got a powerbook 3400 cs runnign OS 9.0 with PCMCIA expansion
bay (2 PCMCIA slots)
Can I get an USB adapter for this Powerbook?
How about a Compact Flash PCMCIA adapter? I've seen a Macally one at tah

Fred - I'm responding to you here because AOL has blocked me from
emailing anyone -- they seem to think I'm sending spam -- It's a lonnng
story, (see http://members.cox.net/2dellis/sylvia/index.html ).
I responded to one of your posts and emails:

Before I ask this question allow me to contribute something...
I am a commercial videographer, albeit at an entry level. I tried
Pinnacle Systems on a PC and it was a pain in the neck. I don't know
if it was the software or the hardware but I got fed up fast and