Funny how that post seems more likely to be the son locked out by his Mom than the other way around.

It should be noted that the chime is a sign of a successful POST (Power On Self Test), and can be quite useful for troubleshooting hardware issues.

I suspect what you did (and what you needed to do) was reselect your boot drive in the Startup Disk prefpane. Correct?

In order for the name service to work properly, the DHCP client ID and the "Sharing name" should be the same on the Macs. And naturally they should not include spaces or non-alphanumeric characters.

IE is a deprecated browser on the Mac and is woefully out of date (it's not had any additional coding changes since 2003). It's no longer distributed by Microsoft for use. As noted previously you...

It's not a virus.

Did you restart after removing the font?

Not legally.

There were some kernel hacks that allowed 10.4.2 to be installed on a PC, but a "modern version" of OS X isn't installable on a regular "non-apple branded" PC.

Well, you will need a separate cable/DSL modem.. but not a separate router. There should be instructions that come with it, if not, hit the Apple support website. But typically it'll use an...

IMO, there's no reason in the world to get an Apple wireless router. They are massively overpriced and your AirPort cards will work with pretty much any wireless router out there. And you can get...

Well, PC133 RAM should work just fine in there. So if it's not showing up, try moving it to a new slot. If it STILL doesn't show up, then most likely it's either 1) the incorrect RAM, or it's a bad...

I mean.. wow. Good info.

Which files? It should be very easy to rename them. Just selec the file and hit Return to change to the renaming scheme. Name as appropriate and hit Return. Done.

Mac are touchy about RAM. ESPECIALLY the G5s. I'd really avoid the cheap stuff. That being said, you can find decent RAM (and which ones you need) from any of the following sources (just to name a...

The reboot screen is called a kernel panic.

The 3 beeps is a bad sign, it means the boot sequence FAILED the POST (power on self test).. spcifically: 3 beeps = No RAM banks passed memory testing...

Unfortunately, it's going to be hard to find a modern printer that still supports OS 9. OS 9 has been a depricated OS for about 5 years now.

Which Mac is it? Are you sure you seated it properly? Are you 100% sure it's compatible RAM?

You should note that when you have mixed (802.11b & g) groupings like this, the wifi router will run at the slowest speed.

That being said:

The 17" 1GHz G4 iMac was the "first", after that, the...

Restart and hold down the C key to boot from a CD.

Most likely it supports DL burning.

Open Temrinal.app.. type:

drutil info

And see what you get as supported DVD writes.

yellow% drutil info
Vendor Product Rev

It's crashing (whatever you're using to try and download), you should check the crashlog for clues as to why. Also, log in as another user and check to see if the problem happens there as well, or...

No, not really.

Safari stores it's cached files in ~/Librar/Caches/Safari/ and then in subfolders that are numbers 00, 01, 02, 03, etc, and then in further subfolders with similar numbering...

There should not be a difference. I can't imagine you had 4GB worth of swap files. Both drives are HFS+, so the block sizes are the same. Personally I don't care for "Restore" at all. I get much...

You can look on ebay however for an idea of what similar systems are being sold for..

Well, I'd say that's the problem then. While I can't find anything that specifically says so.. I'm guessing that QT7 is required to view the ads.

Movies from where? From inside the Finder, or inside iTunes, or what?
What version of OS X?

More info please...

What version of OS X are you running and what version of the Installer discs do you have?

I would say that Panther would be a better solution for you and your iBook. I have no idea what it's worth or what you could get for it. Check on eBay for comparision ideas.

Tiger is a VERY processor intensive OS. And that means it'll run slowly on the G3. And 512MB of RAM is really the decent minimum to run Tiger. Unfortunately, you're running well below that, which...

Which ones did you download? If it's the HD one.. it should work just fine with QT 7.04 on the Mac.

There's no wild viruses for Mac OS X.
There's no wild spyware for Mac OS X.

You're safe to connect it to the internet.

Locked itself? Not sure what that means....

You still didn't say if you're using AutoLogin. Anyway, there's a system wide login screen pref file at /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist, you could try moving that and then...

Well.. since the move to x86 architecture.. there've been people struggling to put Windows on it, and they succeeded, and then Apple swooped in (and undoubtedly stole the idea/process) and released...

A good troubleshooting step is always to look for a software update when you have troubles like this (or even whenever you install apps in general). Apparently the Apeture 1.1 update will make this...

Are you using autologin? Sounds like you are and it's crapping out before it logs you in, which means (most likely) that you can boot in safe mode and move the...

There's no more need for this if one is running Tiger (or later), as cron has been supplanted by launchd, which operates in a more efficient manner. Launchd will run the appropriate script at the...

Well, that would have been your next step. I have no idea what device was having the problem, some USB device you had plugged in. As for saft, I would hope you know what it is, as you installed it...

Try updating the OS again and copy & paste into a reply the relevant info from /var/log/install.log and /var/log/system.log. If you sent one earlier I never got it, but there's some heavy anti-spam...

Hmmm..It's definitely got a battery. According to Mactracker (http://www.mactracker.ca), it's a 3.6 to 3.9V lithium. However, I'm not sure where it is, as I scrapped my last G3 Tower at least 2...

Glad that worked.. what a weird work around for an (still) unknown problem.