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    PowerBook G3 Pismo Firmware 4.1.8 f5 ISSUE

    Welcome everybody, I have the following issue with the PowerBook G3 Pismo. About 10+ years ago when I last booted up this machine I flashed the firmware to the 4.1.8 f5 which is known to be faulty and Apple removed it from their supported list and replaced it with the 4.1.8 version. The f5 was...
  2. reddrag0n

    AHT error Pismo G3

    just did a new board and hard drive install on my old pismo, found out that the backlight is burned out, or the inverter board if fried, but when i ran the AHT for the pismo, i get a logicboard error. ***ERROR*CODE***ERROR*CODE*** fire/1/1 ***ERROR*CODE***ERROR*CODE*** don't mind the lack of...