Sludgedragon
Well-known member
Yes! Assembled my Franken-Pismo with parts from different places. Plugged it in, powered it on. BONG!
I used a HD with OS 9 on it, it booted right up. Was trying to get it on line with my Orinoco card and it says the password isn't right! (It works for all the other machines in the house.) But that's not the real puzzle.
All of a sudden it went black and there was this scary buzz/hum from inside. Took out the hard drive to see if that was what was causing it, that didn't work. Took out the processor, that didn't work. Sounds like it's coming from the power/charger board and I'll need to get another part. But wait! Unhooked the new PRAM battery, and the noise got a lot less, reduced to chirping. Then when I left it alone for a while and tried it again, the noise was gone. Part by part I put everything back, and now it's working fine. Beautiful screen, keyboard works but missing esc and F9. The processor was supposed to be without RAM, came with two 64 MB cards, I have replaced the lower one with 128.
When I'm sure it won't be doing anything else weird, I'll wipe the drive and put in Panther and 9 on partitions.
I have wanted a Pismo for quite a while.
I used a HD with OS 9 on it, it booted right up. Was trying to get it on line with my Orinoco card and it says the password isn't right! (It works for all the other machines in the house.) But that's not the real puzzle.
All of a sudden it went black and there was this scary buzz/hum from inside. Took out the hard drive to see if that was what was causing it, that didn't work. Took out the processor, that didn't work. Sounds like it's coming from the power/charger board and I'll need to get another part. But wait! Unhooked the new PRAM battery, and the noise got a lot less, reduced to chirping. Then when I left it alone for a while and tried it again, the noise was gone. Part by part I put everything back, and now it's working fine. Beautiful screen, keyboard works but missing esc and F9. The processor was supposed to be without RAM, came with two 64 MB cards, I have replaced the lower one with 128.
When I'm sure it won't be doing anything else weird, I'll wipe the drive and put in Panther and 9 on partitions.
I have wanted a Pismo for quite a while.