Q: ORIGINAL POWERBOOK G3 WALLSTREET QUESTIONS
Hello all,
I purchased a powerbook G3 Wallstreet for 5 dollars off of ebay, yes thats right FIVE DOLLARS. It didn't come with a cd drive so I had to buy one for 10$ and I bought a stick a 128 stick of ram to bump me up to 160 MB and installed Jaguar on there...I use Firefox 2.0 to surf the web and to tell you guys the truth its really not that bad. It's like just "fast enough" to not be "unbearably slow", for the price I paid...I'm very happy with it. However I have a few questions...
1.Would adding more ram be sensible, would it recognize any more then 192MB and what kind of stick should I buy and how much more can I put in here? It is the model with NO L2 Cache, so will it really make a difference or not?
2.The monitor flickers and has "flickering lines" across it when I move the screen back and forth, just lightly touching it either makes it worse or better. I can find a good angle where it is fine, and its no big deal, but is this the display itself or the display cable?
3.What kind of EXTERNAL hard drive can I hook up to this thing, being as there is no USB port?
4.What is the best wireless card for this model with the best RANGE?
I purchased a powerbook G3 Wallstreet for 5 dollars off of ebay, yes thats right FIVE DOLLARS. It didn't come with a cd drive so I had to buy one for 10$ and I bought a stick a 128 stick of ram to bump me up to 160 MB and installed Jaguar on there...I use Firefox 2.0 to surf the web and to tell you guys the truth its really not that bad. It's like just "fast enough" to not be "unbearably slow", for the price I paid...I'm very happy with it. However I have a few questions...
1.Would adding more ram be sensible, would it recognize any more then 192MB and what kind of stick should I buy and how much more can I put in here? It is the model with NO L2 Cache, so will it really make a difference or not?
2.The monitor flickers and has "flickering lines" across it when I move the screen back and forth, just lightly touching it either makes it worse or better. I can find a good angle where it is fine, and its no big deal, but is this the display itself or the display cable?
3.What kind of EXTERNAL hard drive can I hook up to this thing, being as there is no USB port?
4.What is the best wireless card for this model with the best RANGE?
Powerbook G3 Wallstreet 233,IMac G3 233 Rev.A Bondi Blue, Mac OS X (10.2.x)
Posted on Mar 31, 2009 6:47 AM
by jpl,Solvedanswer
SpankyToo,
Users with third-party 'G' cards can have this problem and others. I have never had a kernel panic on my Wallstreet with my Buffalo card/AirPort/10.3.9 (XPostFacto). However, my card will not work if I insert it while the 'book is running (no KP) and will stall unless I insert it at just the right moment during startup. This 'moment' is just as the desktop appears. If you cannot insert the card at any point during startup or while running without a KP, I have no answer.
Are you sure the card is good?
Try a different compatible card with the OrangeWare.
From the OrangeWare FAQ:
"I have a PowerBook G3 and I am experiencing a variety of different problems with my CardBus card. I am running Mac OS X version 10.2.8 or under.
Mac OS X 10.3 contains a ROM update for older CardBus controllers. Updating to this version (10.3) or later should solve the majority of these issues."
If you want to stay at 10.2.8 and have no success with OrangeWare, download the freeware utility WirelessDriver and use the a recommended 802.11b PC card. Be sure to uninstall OrangeWare first.
http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net/
Users with third-party 'G' cards can have this problem and others. I have never had a kernel panic on my Wallstreet with my Buffalo card/AirPort/10.3.9 (XPostFacto). However, my card will not work if I insert it while the 'book is running (no KP) and will stall unless I insert it at just the right moment during startup. This 'moment' is just as the desktop appears. If you cannot insert the card at any point during startup or while running without a KP, I have no answer.
Are you sure the card is good?
Try a different compatible card with the OrangeWare.
From the OrangeWare FAQ:
"I have a PowerBook G3 and I am experiencing a variety of different problems with my CardBus card. I am running Mac OS X version 10.2.8 or under.
Mac OS X 10.3 contains a ROM update for older CardBus controllers. Updating to this version (10.3) or later should solve the majority of these issues."
If you want to stay at 10.2.8 and have no success with OrangeWare, download the freeware utility WirelessDriver and use the a recommended 802.11b PC card. Be sure to uninstall OrangeWare first.
http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net/
Posted on May 31, 2009 4:24 PM