PowerBook Meltdown

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barryfreed

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Hi.
I'm having some serious problems with my powerbook. It's a G3 maxed out on RAM brand new 60 gb hard drive. The previous hard drive died and the new one is a week old. I've had it going (OSX Panther) for a week on my wireless network. Now, all of a sudden I can't get online though it can see my network. Also, I can no longer save any files. I can open up text edit, write some junk, but then I can't save it. This goes for ANY program. And this all just happened last night. Out of nowhere.

-So, I don't think it's the hard drive. I just got it, and it's got 55 gigs left. I ran disk utility and there are no errors.

-I don't think it's the airport card as the mac can see the network, and says it's connected to it. But I can't go online, can't telnet, etc. Nothing at all.

-Also, I have a PC on the same network. It's still online. No problems. And if I take out the cable and put it directly in the mac, I still can't go online.

If anyone can please give me some help, I would really appreciate it. Thanks.
 
is your new hard drive faster than your old one? if so you might actually be melting things.
 
What kind of PowerBook is it (Lombard, Wall Street, etc.) and, what was the size of the old hard drive?

I'm thinking that machine may be subject to the "OS X only in the first partition, no larger than 8GB" limitation, but I'm not sure.
 
It's a G3 Pismo with Firewire400

g3 400mhz
1meg L2 cache
8meg onbard video card
14.4 inch screen (1024*768)
8meg video card supports dual video through LCD and both the vga and
video output)
2 firewire ports
2 USB ports
512 megs of ram
20 or 30 gig drive (will check when i get home) <-- This was the original one
DVD drive
56k modem
about 5.5 pounds
damn sturdy case design
airport card included (yes it has wireless)
10/100bt ethernet
 
Hmm, i could be wrong but i am pretty sure that your model laptop came with an ata-66 hard drive (4200 rpm), so i don't think that is your problem.
 
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