Mk.558
Well-known member
G'day y'all,
This PowerBook Duo 2300cTB has a memory issue (and a dead PRAM battery) leading to the following:
Normally, it has a 24MB RAM card installed (or is it? Ask jt/Trash) and should total 32MB.
This delightful image was snapped under 8.1. Somehow I managed to wrangle out of that hole which wouldn't even let me open a CDEV to set the time before freezing dead. I got out using System Picker 1.1a3 to put myself into 7.5.5 (after many tries).
7.5.5 works fine, I haven't booted back into 8.1 since the above. It appears that the internal onboard 8MB is faulty since before the control panels and extensions get loaded (after the "Welcome to Macintosh screen") it pops up a dialog box saying "/!\ The built-in memory test has detected a problem. Please contact a service technician for assistance."
"Hello? Is this SOS-Apple? I have a ... Can I get a new motherboard and some new laptop hinges?"
Diagnosis?
This PowerBook Duo 2300cTB has a memory issue (and a dead PRAM battery) leading to the following:
Normally, it has a 24MB RAM card installed (or is it? Ask jt/Trash) and should total 32MB.
This delightful image was snapped under 8.1. Somehow I managed to wrangle out of that hole which wouldn't even let me open a CDEV to set the time before freezing dead. I got out using System Picker 1.1a3 to put myself into 7.5.5 (after many tries).
7.5.5 works fine, I haven't booted back into 8.1 since the above. It appears that the internal onboard 8MB is faulty since before the control panels and extensions get loaded (after the "Welcome to Macintosh screen") it pops up a dialog box saying "/!\ The built-in memory test has detected a problem. Please contact a service technician for assistance."
"Hello? Is this SOS-Apple? I have a ... Can I get a new motherboard and some new laptop hinges?"
Diagnosis?