I reassembled my Powerbook 165 after getting its screen recapped (Thanks again JRL!). I had to swap out the keyboard from another powerbook (160) and went ahead and put the larger 10M RAM card from that machine in there as well. Everything is great; it is booting to 7.5.x off the internal 240 meg hard drive, screen in good, I've got good sound, keyboard works, trackball is working (might need a bit of lube or cleaning though; it's a bit sticky)
I went to try to install something via floppy, and the as soon as the floppy got injected, it robooted. Tried it again with the same results. I don't recall this being an issue before, though I don't recall using the floppy before. I think I used a SyQuest drive to get the System software on that hard drive many years ago.
I have another floppy drive from the 160 I can swap out, but was wondering if there was anything else I should be looking at as well. I am trying to avoid assembling/ disassembling this machine too many more times if I can avoid it, and would like to take care of any possible problems the next time I open it up.
Thanks in advance,
J White
I went to try to install something via floppy, and the as soon as the floppy got injected, it robooted. Tried it again with the same results. I don't recall this being an issue before, though I don't recall using the floppy before. I think I used a SyQuest drive to get the System software on that hard drive many years ago.
I have another floppy drive from the 160 I can swap out, but was wondering if there was anything else I should be looking at as well. I am trying to avoid assembling/ disassembling this machine too many more times if I can avoid it, and would like to take care of any possible problems the next time I open it up.
Thanks in advance,
J White
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