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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 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 … |
| | 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 … |
| | 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 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 …  |
 | Hey all, just got hold of a Mac Performa 6200CD. anyone know the specs on it? I think its really old but a friend was ditching it so I grabbed it hoping it was something worth kepping but I'm not sure. The only thing I know is it has a … |
| | 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. |
| | 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 … |
| | 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 … |
| | 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 … |
| | Ok, so I went to CompUSA in hopes to get my new mac wireless equiped to use our wireless network and get it online, but no such luck :(. The D-Link DWL-122 claims to work on MacOS X 10.3.2 and up but it does NOT work on MacOS X Panther … |
| | Hello out there, I was given a mac to use at work and I am going crazy :!: Here are my issues and if I can get some help on them I would REALLY appreciate it. The computer techs in here won't even touch the macs and say "Good luck" … |
| | To all Optus internet users, Is the new Optus wireless coverage (LAN) compatible with Macs? Does it support AirPort? Let moi know. frenchiepoo* |
| | I have a 80 GB external maxtor that is in a separate companies case, that has USB and fire wire, on my old IMAC i used the usb and everything was fine.... I just purchased a used powerbook g4 1 gh with superdrive 15 inch.... so I thought great now … |
| | I have an Imac G4 600 running Os 10.3 and a external USB1 LiteOn Lsc-24081MX DVD-RW. When I connect the burner the Imac does not see it. Toast says no recorder detected. Read a post on another mac forum that says that LiteOn drives just doesn't work on mac. But … |
| | I have just upgraded my G4 dual processor 1.25 to 10.3.4. I am also using Protools 6.4. I have 2 gigs of Ram. Now my second scsi hard drive is not recongized. :sad: When I placed back in old machine (G4 400, OS 9) It is still not recongized. Please … |
| | I am installing a new hard drive for a friend on her mac g3. using the panther OS. I am totally new to mac. the new disk that we got does not contain any formatting software for the mac. just windows. I have done this many times before on a … |
| | Hey all just got hold of my first working mac. I don't have a monitor but this G3 has S-video connections. So I pluged it into my TV and it works. My questions are A: how big of processor can I put in it? B: What is the highest amount …  |
| | We need a fairly robust printer to work with 9.2 The spec pg, & reviews for samsung mono chrome laser ml 2150 says it runs on "mac classic" and osx. Samsungs many pgs of dept's doesnt readily give an email so i couldnt ask the following- Does the above printer … |
| | Can an iMac bought in UK and used on UK electrics work in the USA? WHat must be done? |
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