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well, i actually cant startup. ive had my computer off for several days, im on vacation at the moment. havent done any big changes, nothing. i try to start my powerbook X, g4, and it makes the startup noise, the screen stays dark, and the sleep light comes on and …
Does anyone know why, when I am trying to install a new printer in OSX, the print center quits unexpectantly? HELP!!!!
I have just picked up a poorly G4 (fails to boot OS 9.2 unless extensions turned off). I thought It was a corrupted OS, so I bought OS X. But when I try to install it, it won't boot from CD. If i hold down the "C" whilst truning on …
I purchased a BTC brand Combo drive cdrw/dvd-rom and installed it in my G4 tower. The OS recognizes that the drive is a burner but says that burning is not enabled in the system profiler. If anyone knows how to enable this feature I would appreciate the help. Thank you
I have a macX and the disc won't eject, does anyone have any hints? I've tried the option "e" command and also the eject button doesn't seem to help either, Thanks for you help. SJ
I have a Powerbook G3 (WallStreet version) running OS 9.2 and am trying to burn some Photoshop files to CD. I have Toast Lite installed and a Lacie d2 CD-RW Drive. Whenver I connect my laptop to the CD-RW Drive and Launch Toast Lite I get that annoying little revolving …
Hello, First, what is TDM? Targeted Disk Mode. Back in the day of the first Mac laptops, and I think it was System 7, you could take a Mac laptop that had a special SCSI Cable (it was missing a pin) and using a control panel setting, turn that laptop …
NOW what !!?? I recently hard a second hard drive crash which I managed to rescue with Disk Warrior. Since than, every time I insert, say. a compact flash card or SD card or external disk my G4 insists it cannot recognise the disk and wants to initialize it. If …
i have a g4 4oomhz agp with 100 bus speed, 856 memory and i wanted to find out about what is the best processor i could purchase for under 200 of these fine british pounds. any help will be glorious. nice 1.
Hi All, We have a good cell signal at our lake cabin. I want to use my Kyocera 2325 as a modem, utilizing the proper data cable. I am looking for the correct software to set this up. Does anyone have any experience to share or perhaps a reference? TIA …
:sad: I have a G4 450 single processor with a Maxtor 40 gig IDE drive. Computer locked up and now drive will not show up on screen. When I boot with Norton the cd and zip drives show up. The Maxtor drive does not show up. It is running because …
hey, i was wondering if whoever has a powermac g5 if they could measure the hight of the case(from the bottom, including the power supply, all the way to the shelf) (not including where the superdrive and hd's are. And also the hight of the shelf(where the superdrive and the …
I got a new imac g5 about 2 weeks ago, the problem is sometimes when i move my mouse the cursor will fly all the way to the opposite side of the screen, i am currently not using a mouse pad, could that be my problem? or is the mouse …
I am about to trade off my PC aka "Virus Magnet" and join the ranks of the "better informed". My choice of machine, as a confirmed gizmo junkie is the PowerBook w. 17" monitor. A good choice for a start-up guy or? How does one able to order via the …
Does any one know of a good open source Calendar (ala Entourage) for Mac OS 9.x ?
Hi Any advice welcome........ I fitted a second hard drive (80GB Western Digital) to my G4 (400Mhz) few months back, running on O.S 9.2.2 I've been using it to store my albums of digi pix on. and recently my son started creating imovies on it. It has now crashed completely …
Hi, my powerbook titanium, OsX10.3.6, keeps ejecting all cd/dvds - unable to read optical media, tried all types of discs, even disk/laserhead cleaner - no luck. Problem started a while back sporadically when moving to OSX10.3, but after a few attemps did read disk, though now nolonger possible. Any suggestions, …
Does anyone know what factors exist to appletalk between OS 9 and OS10.3. I am a student at Western Kentucky University, trying to use appletalk between G4 towers set up to scan pictures on OS 9 and cannot get it to work consistently with the new G5 panther. any help …
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hi all, got 2 massive 20" screens from a friend and they need me to buy em an adapter to work with standard graphics cards rather than with an apple computer with annoyingly different graphics hardware, wot type of adapter is it i need? how do i find out? the …
e-Mac wont read Music cds or USB pen drive and wont let me upload pictures from digital camera. But it will read cds that ive burned my uni work on. Help me please someone, mac help is not helping :confused:
Hi Mac newby here. Was toasting when horrid sound occured in superdrive and although it opens and closes OK it no longer reads anything. Any ideas? Am on Mac OS X.10.3.5. platform and very frustrated! Any constructive replies appreciated. Can't afford to lose eMac to doctors.
Hi, I have a G4 eMAC 1Ghz OS X v10.2.8. When our MAC is first booted, the screen isn't bright like normal. It is in a dark dim state, similar to standby mode when left idling. The only way to make it bright again is when we put the MAC …
Can anyone tell me how Netscape 7.0 (Gecko) stores user accounts on a Mac OS? It's a G3, on OS 8. I was doing a favor for a friend on Friday and revising some email accounts for him when his graphic designer left - some of the email was being …
To all those who have G5s, check out the removable side panel from your tower. The inside of it has strips of tape on 3 of the sides. Thinking this was just packing tape, I removed it. However, I was since told that it was special static tape. Does anyone …
Has anyone found a way to read Jaz discs into a Mac iBook (mine being G3 White, two USB ports). That is by using the SCSI-USB adapter cable to get into the iBook. The Jaz drive and the adapter cable are both said to be for iMacs and Power Macs...and …
I have a home network that shares an XP-home PC and a Mac OSX computer and a brother network capable printer connected to a hub. Everything was working fine for 3 months, but my printer stopped working on the mac after doing some work on my PC (still works from …
I have a new G5 dual 2.0 ghz with 1.5 gig ram, a ATI 64 mb card (2) 150 gig sata drives. I am also using a 23" cinema display. My problem is... 9 times out of 10 when I push the power button it doesnt boot, I mean it …
hello, any help will be greatly welcome and needed. i'm afraid my laptop (a powerbook g4) had a slip today. the fall was not that high from the bed to the carpeted floor, and the music that i had been playing did not even skip. i rushed over to it …
I followed the directions for burning a CD, but when I attempt to open the CD nothing happens. I"m not sure I am doing this correctly. I just got this new Mac and I am lost.
Urk. My keyboard is giving me problems. It started right after a blackout. It was working perfectly fine before that. The quotation keys, the question mark and slash keys, and the shifted , and . do not work properly. It is rather annoying. They seem to be mixed up. I …
Out of the blue - when I insert a disk in the drive of my PowerBook G4 it spins and makes some noise, goes quiet then ejects itself. I cringe at the thought of having to possibly pay for a repair. Any ideas on how to exhaust all possibilites for …
Hi, I've been on Webtv for a few years and want to switch to an apple laptop. I don't really need a computer, just a way to access the internet and have e-mail. Webtv seems to be the only internet terminal around and it stinks. Can anyone tell me which …
Hi, my Mac crashed some while ago after a power surge. Since then I've had problems downloading anything through the Download Manager. It's very frustrating. sending photographic attachments is a problem also. Is this related, or just another of my Mac nightmares? Finn, very much a novice !
I'm working on a G3 Powerbook 2000 aka "Firewire" aka "Pismo." When I type, several keys activate multiple letters. The g and h keys activate each other so it comes out like "gh" or "vc" or "bn" problems like that. I swapped out the keyboard and it didn't help. Any …
Helppp !!!I'm all thumbs and I just got a Mac powerbook G3. What I'm trying to do is access my auto memory. It records every 5 minutes it indicates. But how do I retrive data? Is the lack of a battery the problem?
Hey guys, can someone tell me where or how I can get an OS9 system installer file to install on my iMacs (G4's) to run next to OSX.3.5 ? Jaguar installed it automatically. Panther doesn't, unfortunately. Thx in advance!
A couple of weeks ago my Tibook's hard drive died. I ordered a new hard drive and cd-drive(superdrive) and installed them. The computer looks and sounds like everything is fine. However, while installing Panther I have run into problems. The screen that instructs the user to choose a volume on …
Is only the software part of the computer diff or is the hardware of Mac different from my pc which runs windows :o
How do I access my auto save. I have a Mac powerbook G3 1999/2000. tanx
I am certain that my Mac is being used by some unauthorised third party to send out e-mails. I ferquently get messages telling me that mail delivery failed. Invariably, these messages concern a mail that I am unaware of and are to an address I have never heard of. An …
I bought a Western Digital Caviar EIDE HD that is supposed to be 200GB, but when I formatted it with Drive Setup for my Mac G4, it came out to 130. Where did the extra 70GB go???
We are experiencing a seriously infuriating issue with our new Imac powerPc G4. You are happily working on something and the computer goes into screen saver mode. When you click out of it the cursor has jumped to one or other of the screen corners. It happens constantly and seems …
Link: [url="http://www.apple.com/imac"]http://www.apple.com/imac[/url] Watch the iMac Introduction Video: [url="http://www.apple.com/imac/video/"]http://www.apple.com/imac/video/[/url] What do you guys think of it? I've watched the video about 50 times... I love it that much :!:
I'm looking for a free Linux system for my Mac. I'm wondering which is the best one for me. I'm fairly expirienced with Unix and X11 and computers in general, but I don't want something to tough to use. I've heard Yellow Dog (Red Hat Port) is one of the …
I just recently found my clam shell mac and I forgot my password, I was wondering how could I be able to install OSX on it if it was possible or at least getting my password back.
Ok, I've heard so many times that a macintosh platform is better for graphics, video editing, etc. Aside from programs that come with the mac os, I see no evidence that the mac is truly better for multimedia. Somebody PLEASE prove that the MAC os is better for multimedia than …
To be straight this is why I just changed over to mac, plus the fact that they are the prime target for viruses/spyware/adware and hackers/crackers plus much more bad stuf, is this a true rumor that they have long term plans to charge their customers utility? By utility meaning that …
Hi mac people. I am currently planning to purchase a notebook. It will be my first Apple computer (replacing my windows PC) I had planned to buy a 14" ibook (1.2Ghz/768Mb ram/60Gb HD/superdrive/bluetooth/airport extreme) but yesterday came across the following at slightly less cost than the new ibook. Factory Refurbished …
I have recently upgraded from Jaguar to Panther, and then upgraded to 10.3.5. Prior to upgrading when I single clicked on an EPS icon in the Finder I got a preview of what the file looked like and the file extension icon was that of a Photoshop, Freehand, Illustrator etc. …
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