[iBook] Second Hand Mac woes

[Alex Santos 100MB Neostrada Mail]

On Jan 15, 2005, at 12:21 AM, Andy McMullin wrote:

> Hi There,
>
> When I wanted to replace the drive in my iBook, I found that a slot 
> loader
> wouldn't seem to fit. Instead I acquired a Toshiba SD-R2002 DVD/CD 
> drive
> which is a "slide-out" DVD-player and CD-player/writer. It just dropped
> straight in to the hole in the casework; but it did require minor
> modification to the plastic door to fit properly. Once (physically) 
> fitted
> the iBook just loved it with no software or other changes required --
> running OSX.
>
Were you able to have the original CD ROM door fitted on the new drive? 
The Toshiba drive sound great, I wonder if this is what Apple actually 
uses.

> motherboard so a 512MByte card made it up to the maximum of 640Mbytes. 
> Just
> put "iBook" into the memory selection page of any reasonable preferred
> supplier and let them sort things out for you.
>
> Finally, I can recommend sticking with OSX (although I've turned off 
> the
> password requirement on my one). Once you've got the hang of it, it 
> seems so
> much better than OS9 -- but that comment is bound to start arguments.

I love OSX, use it all the time on my eMac, I can't remember when I 
last used MacOS9.

My problem is that the iBook boots to OSX now as this is what I chose 
in the startup disk control panel in 9. But OSX presented with a login 
window and I would like to now start back from 9, otherwise with the 
CDROM not working and no password for OSX, I won't be able to do 
anything with it.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Regards
> Andy, G8TQH
> http://www.rickham.net/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ibook-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com] On Behalf Of Alex
> Santos 100MB Neostrada Mail
> Sent: 14 January 2005 22:48
> To: ibook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> Subject: [iBook] Second Hand Mac woes
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am new to the list as I have just purchased a white second hand iBook
> G3 running at 500MHz. Unfortunately, the CD ROM drive doesn't appear to
> read any CDs I put in there and then there are a few other minor
> problems I am hoping some of you ay help me with.
>
> Firstly, I would like to get an internal slot-loading combo drive to
> replace the failed drive. Can any one here provide me with more details
> on this? Perhaps someone here can suggest a model or brand. Secondly, I
> would like to install more RAM. Could someone provide me details on the
> RAM I need for this iBook? Finally, I had the mac startup from OSX,
> which was already installed on the iBook, and found myself presented
> with a login screen. I don't know the password and would like to simply
> restart the computer with OS9.
>
> I would appreciate any help from anyone about any of these issues.
>
> Thanks so much
> Alex
>
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