2400c - How to keep it working?

[PPCOtaku]

Re-vivifying this zombie thread again ... The Transcend drive has a number of reports of it failing on the 1 star Amazon reviews, which always makes me nervous. Has anyone used the OWC Mercury PATA SSD drive in a 2400c? It seems like it should work (it works in the iMac G3 from '98, according to OWC's site); when I emailed them they first said it wasn't compatible, then when I asked why they just said they hadn't tested it.

I have a 2400c with a G3 240 MHz, 80MB RAM, and the original 1.3 GB hard drive. I have it running on WiFi with an Orinoco Gold 802.11b card; a Cisco Aironet 350 appears to be recognized and I loaded the software, but I can't get the radio turned on. <shrug>

I know I'm on borrowed time with the spinning hard drive, but I'm nervous opening a machine this old as I'm sure it's brittle. (I'm relatively adept at working with small machines, I've logic board swapped 11" MacBook Airs etc., but nothing this rare that I actually care about .)

I love it for word processing, what a great keyboard and form factor!

(PRAM battery was removed years ago.)

 

[MacUp72]

Re-vivifying this zombie thread again ... The Transcend drive has a number of reports of it failing on the 1 star Amazon reviews, which always makes me nervous. Has anyone used the OWC Mercury PATA SSD drive in a 2400c? It seems like it should work (it works in the iMac G3 from '98, according to OWC's site); when I emailed them they first said it wasn't compatible, then when I asked why they just said they hadn't tested it.

I have a 2400c with a G3 240 MHz, 80MB RAM, and the original 1.3 GB hard drive. I have it running on WiFi with an Orinoco Gold 802.11b card; a Cisco Aironet 350 appears to be recognized and I loaded the software, but I can't get the radio turned on. <shrug>

I know I'm on borrowed time with the spinning hard drive, but I'm nervous opening a machine this old as I'm sure it's brittle. (I'm relatively adept at working with small machines, I've logic board swapped 11" MacBook Airs etc., but nothing this rare that I actually care about .)

I love it for word processing, what a great keyboard and form factor!

(PRAM battery was removed years ago.)

well for mSata adapter..I installed one of these adapters with a good, working older 120GB Crucial M550 mSata in my 1400c, it didn't really like it.. this combination gave me a slow, strange behaving system, an IDE-CF card adapter with CF card was immediatly better. (I think the early IDE implementation is not comparable with later PowerBooks)

Transcend, I installed one of those new 120 GB Transcend mSata of amazon in another notebook, I noticed they get real hot, I never had this with any other cards.

 

[allensis]

The power manager reset trick’s didn’t work. So I tried the Battery insert/Power button which did not work after several attempts - then I tried a different battery and the 2400c is alive again - GLOD gone for now.

Thanks 68kmla TEAM!!

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

Great! Enjoy it. Just going to ask to make sure you’ve removed the leaky PRAM battery from inside.