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| | my 2 1/2 year old G4 iMac will no longer read DVD movies or music cds. when a disc is inserted, it spins the disc around for maybe 10 seconds, makes a few quiet, quick 'purring' sounds then ejects the disc. however, it will still recognize and respond a blank … |
| | I have an ibook g4. Did not boot anymore with a broken folder at the startup. Disk utility could not fix, so I shelled out $100 to get Diskworrior and fixed this problem. I was able to get back on and save the files. After few days, same problem again. …  |
| | Hi, I have just returned from a trip overseas and left my iMac wrapped up in the attic. When I got it down and left it to acclimatise to normal room temperature for 2 days it wouldn't start. I can hear the chime sound and then the spinning thing comes … |
 | Has anyone here bought one of the new Intel-based macs? How do you like it? Is it noticably faster than an IBM G5? |
| | Hello All, I'm a new Mac convert- recently got the new Intel core duo desktop - trying to connect wirelessly to the internet. I have a MR814v2 Netgear router- I CAN connect only when the WEP is disabled, but as soon as I turn on WEP (128bit), the Mac cannot … |
 | I've personally amassed a decent collection of older Macs. I love these little boxes-- I can still make them do all kinds of things, as old as they are! I'm curious if there's anyone else here that loves the older Macs, or maybe just still uses them. Here is my … |
| | Hi, I just set up an airport extreme, and everything is great, except the fact that ONE computer is in another part of the house and can't receive signal. It's an old house, thick walls, some kind of metal foil inside them. I have been looking at the antennas offered … |
| | I have an IBook G4 933 and since it was brand new it randomly freezes. I sent it back to Apple and they have found no errors and suggested installing more memory. I installed 512 Mb RAM and it suddenly stop freezing. Two year later (February 19th) it freezes again … |
| | Once a day my curser freezes or I get a grey message to restart my computer. It doesn't seem to happen at times of large memory usage. It happens in a multitude of applications. The only error message (besides restart) mentions that my date is wrong. And it I have … |
| | the power supply to my old G4 cube gave out. I'm hoping to recover data from the hard drive (Maxtor/Altair/92049U3) by adding it within my G4 tower. any precautions/hints for doing this. thanks in advance for any help. Vince |
| | Hello I have an iBook one or two month old and i wonder is there a critical cpu temperature in ibook and what is it . i have this widgit that tells me the themperature of it but i can't find what is the limit. Thank you Dubi |
| | whats happening here is when i go to turn in the powerbook I get a really really long startupp screen with the spinning icon and the apple, and then it goes black and gives me a message about not being able to boot... any ideas. |
| | I'm running a Media 100 on OS 7.5.3 on a Power Mac 8100/100. It crashed (floating point processor ...) it starts out fine with the smily computer and Welcome to Power Mac, but gets hung up while the application icons are coming up at the bottom of the screen -- … |
| | I have a g4 400 running os9.04 that i would like to update to tiger 10.4 without loosing 9. I have many older apps that i would prefer not to update. Should i , can i install a second internal hard drive with os 10 and go back and forth … |
| | Does anyone know if I can upgrade my iMac G3 to a G4 processor? I run 10.3.9 (600 MHz) and have 512 MB RAM, but there's obviously stuff I can't do unless I have at least a G4. I've found conflicting stuff on the web about whether I can upgrade, … |
| | Hi to everyone! I have Mac OSx Powe Book G4 Version 10.3.9. My problem is that it goes to sleep ramdonly all the time. Sometimes it takes times to do it but when it starts to do it, it goes to sleep every 3 seconds, and sometimes it stopes. I … |
| | I have a Western Digital Combo - USB/Firewire External hard drive. I use it mostly for saving movie files and editing on my Mac OS X computer. One day working the computer I was working on forced shut down on me twice, with out the ability to correctly eject my … |
| | Hey everybody! I'm wanting to buy my first mac, and I am ga-ga over the G4 powerbooks, but I had a couple of questions about processor speed. The powerbook I'm looking at is 1.67 ghz (I think). I heard somewhere that comparing the processor speed of Macs and Pentiums is … |
| | I've been mucking around the get info ownership and permissions of a new Maxelerate external fw drive, but nothing I do makes it visible to others on my LAN (3 macs running 10.3.9 on ethernet) UNLESS they log in as me, the administrator. If they log in as me, not … |
| | I am trying to hook up airport extreme, I have a G4 OS 10.4.3 and an E-machine currently networked through a Link Sys router. I am on cable. The cable goes through external modem to router and then to computers. Neither is wireless. I have an Ibook that is using … |
| | Hi, I have a problem with my powerbook G4 (12 inch). MacOS 10.3 will not boot. I used the cd included with the mac to check the hardware. Everything seems fine. On the other hand the disk utility program found many problems that it could not solve. I thus tried … |
| | The scenario: We tried to install WinXp in it but we failed. So we installed MacOs in it again. Before it came to completion, the installation freezes. We tried to eject the MacOs installation cd but we it didnt work. We poked it but still no effect. The pc displays … |
| | About 3 months ago my saddle bags on my motorcycles broke off while I was on the freeway. Unfortunatly my G3 Titanium laptop was inside one of them. The laptop was a complete mess but I was able to save the hard drive that somehow survived the accident. I need … |
| | Hi Folks I have an iBook 500mg G3 iBook and it runs perfectly except for one thing: I cannot insert a blank CD in the tray. When I close the tray it spins for a second or two and then the door pops open. I have tried most everything I … |
| | Whenever I connect my digital still camera to any USB port it does not appear on the desktop, but jumps straight to iphoto. Even after quiting iphoto I can't find it enywhere in the computer. Everything else connected through USB seems to appear on the desktop. I'm working on a … |
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| | Hello .. knee deep in theorys but here goes. My realviz stitcher program freezes at the end of a render and can't export. I've tried everything I can think of .. realviz suggest I upgrade my graphics card software (ATI radeon 9650) ... but there doesn't seem to be any … |
 | first I don't use a mac ,just wondering if you can use a usb 2.0 device for file storage ,new 40 gig toshiba harddrive ,not formated yet , with Mack laptop,is it possible or does the harddrive need to be for a mac or can it just be formated mac … |
| | Ok i have an iBook G4 (10.4 tiger) and i want to print using a LaserWriter 16/600 PS printer. I can not figure out how to set it up in OS X. According to apple's website it is still supported by 10.4. I want it to go through my liksys … |
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