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Hi guys. I am a huge gamer but also love macs. Hard to be both and I would love to have a computer that could run high quality games but also be as shiny organized looking as a mac. Anyway, with the new intel core duo processors in the MacBooks …

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Hello There, I have just put a bigger hard drive in my iMac G3 CRT (seagate barracuda 60Gb ATA) I used my factory Disk to initialize it. It took all day writing zeros and when I 'restored' the operating system it went O.K. until it did the calculating the checksum …

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Hello people - I found this forum through google, and I am hoping you all can help me. Yesterday, I came back to my computer, and it would not wake from screen saver mode no mater what I did. so, I restarted the computer, and now it will not start. …

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i subscribe to several podcasts (Sunshine Daydream Podcasts and Dead Show on KOPF/89.5) from the Itunes store. When I subscribe I get the podcasts added to my podcast folder; however, i find that there are older episodes that i download from the internet as MP3 files. when I try to …

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When I press the on button on my powerbook, it makes the normal chime, goes to the white screen with no apple icon and no spinning spokes.... and doesn't go past that. I inserted the original boot CD and held the C key down when booting. The apple icon comes …

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[size=2][color=Indigo][font=Comic Sans MS]My husband has just bought an iMac G3 333mgz, with a broken CD Rom Drive. We know that to load Mac OS with an internal drive, you press the C key on start up, but how do we go about it from an external USB drive? :o[/font][/color][/size]

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Does anyone know of a adapter that can be used to hook up a large format (expensive) Epson scanner that I used to my old Mac through a serial (25 pin?) port before it went dead today. I mainly use a G4 for most of my work but had the …

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Hello all, I am not much of a mac guy but trying to help out a friend. She lives out in the country and dialup is the only internet access and has been using it for years on her imac. Now she has an ibook and wants both to be …

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Hello Everybody! Im Having Trouble With My Monitor It Won't Show An Image. I Disconnected It N Pluged It Back In But Nothing. Please Somebody Help Me...... Heidi

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Hi everyone, I've recently come back to UK and pulled my trusty G4 out of storage to use again. Everything booted up great after 18months downtime, and I was really chuffed when it all went ok and got to the log-in screen. Howevere the smile slipped from my face, as …

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Hello, Does anyone know the big differences between Apple's Extreme & Express Base Stations?? I know the Extreme comes with a built-in dial-up modem (not very useful!) and the Express comes with AirTunes (very useful!), yet the Extreme is more expensive. What's the crack??

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I just ordered a powermac g5 but did not get an apple display. My question is: Do all (or) most windows PC monitors work on Mac's. i didnt get an apple display because i feel like it was too much for monitor ($800 for the 20inch) specially after i had …

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while copying cd's from a friend, one disc i put in, the gza's beneath the surface had ehanced features i wasn't aware of, which start up right away and have no exit option to put them away. then i looked at the cd sleeve and under the system requirements there's …

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Hello, I have a G4 powermac AGP in my studio and want to get a G4 iMac to put in the house. I want both of these computers to run off a wireless network - namely with Apple Airport Extreme Base Station. I understand that I can only fit an …

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My mac currently has a 126Mb PC133 SDRAM Memory card. I've just bought another 256Mb Memory card to put in it, but it still isn't being recognised by my system. All the "experts" I've consulted so far say it should work. Any tips??? PLEEEEEAAASSSSSEEEEEE:sad:

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I am having trouble with a Saffire FW sound card. I've used it successfully for a coupe of weeks, but now my Mac shuts down when I connect the sound card. Other FW sound cards are working fine as well as other FW devices (LaCie external drive, PowerBook in traget …

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so this powerbook g4 1ghz starts then 3 beeps i know this (or think this is a ram prob) but before this i was starting then getting to the grey screen and the apple icon then that dark grey box with the hold the button to restart message the one …

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I have a six-year-old iMac, processor G3, OS 9.0.3. When my printer dies I'll have a choice of new printers for less than $100, but they all seem to require increasing my RAM (don't mind that), plus upgrading my OS which requires not only upgrading my Internet Explorer and Outlook …

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Hi all! I have a 15 inch PowerBook G4 1.67 Ghz laptop running OS X version 10.4.6. It has a Matshita DVD-R UJ-845E superdrive. Is this computer able to burn onto Dual Layer discs? And if it can't, am I able to download a firmware upgrade that would make this …

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okay sorry i did not know where i could discuss mp3 player problems so i hope this is alright Okay-My ipod mini (4/5gig) is around 1 year and a half old and over the last few days when it runs out of battery it will be able to turn back …

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My Powerbook G3 has been sitting unused for about a year, because of a G4 upgrade. I took it out yesterday to start it up, and it won't start. I left it plugged in overnight, and still nothing. At the time of my upgrade to a G4, the G3 was …

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Hi Folks. Does any body know where the battery is located on the G3.8.6 tower. I think it is a 3.6v. Any help would be appreciated. Regards Norm.

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hi there everyone! my mac g4 works just fine except for one thing for some reason when i access mac help it does not work anymore!! please help thanks

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I have just bought a macbook and the "help" section says the hard disc can be partitioned and re-formatted for Windows applications. Is is possible to partition so that part of the disc is formatted for OS and part for Windows?

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Does anyone know the exact specs of the X1600 in the new Intel iMacs? I mean core clock speed, memory speed, number of ppl's etc. and in particular about the 256MB version which is an option in the 20" iMac. Is it more similar to the X1600 Pro or the …

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Hi there, I recently got a quad G5 and thought I would be able to access my AGP G4 via target disc mode. But when I connect the 2 computers this way, My G5 can only see the internal disc in the G4 that has the operating system. I can't …

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Hi, Just to see if anyone can help My Pc running XP home has stalled and I want to take some photos ( that I hadn't backed up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) off before I do a complete reinstall of the drive. There are two options as I see it a) Run a …

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I am running a PowerPC867 with 640MB SDRAM, using OSX10.3.9. For several months now have noticed delay in accessing some software, particularly aware while running email (Eudora). Delay is accompanied by cycling noise from hard drive in four rapid pulses, pause, pulses, etc. Rainbow circle is on screen, sometimes ticking …

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Hi Hope someone could be able to help me with the problem I am having. I have an Ibook 500 Mgz running OS 10.3. I recently bought an external dvd writer and used usb to connect. However when I insert a DVD, I get a message error in initailization, no …

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I have two external firewire drives which will no longer mount on any computer. When I run Disk Utility to verify them, it says: Checking HFS Plus volume. Invalid B-tree node size. The volume needs to be repaired. Volume check failed. Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972) …

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