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I have a G4 Powerbook Ti running Tiger which I've had for a number of years. However for the past week I haven't been able to get it to start up. It makes the start up sound, the screen turns grey, then It shows a picture of a folder with … |
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Hi everybody, I've just switched the the wonderful Mac world but I have an issue with my exWindows external harddrive. I have been using my Hitachi USB2 harddrive on windows XP without any problem. When I acquired my Mac I backed it up and reformated it in HFS+ (journaled) from … |
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i devlop one intranet application that gives totally hardware information like memor information,harddisk informatation ,i found may shell comand that give me this information but i can't find mother-board information so if any one had an idea then please tell me. |
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Hi everyone! I wanted to upgrade my OS X but after downloading some 675MB, my Mac will not install the updates because of some third party software/s that I've installed. What can I do? I'm a newbie when it comes to Mac. How do I know which software/s affecting the … |
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Wow it been about 7 months and I again came across this site again. I have used a really fully upgraded PDQ PowerBook now for several years with only great things to say about it. I installed the Sonnet CPU upgrade, an 80 GB HDD, 512 MB RAM etc. I've … |
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Hi, The computer won't turn on. I changed the power supply and the battery, reset the pram. At the beginning, after few days, the powermac started up but after 3-4 hours it stopped. Now, it won't turn on anymore. Somebody believe in miracles? |
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I have a Dell photo 926 printer that I am trying to get my mac book to recognize. Any suggestions other than the cd or simply plugging in the USB and going from there, those didn't work! Thanks... |
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I know some of you would ask why bother, but I have a perfectly great Laserwriter 4/600 PS printer which I purchased in 1992. It is a serial printer, and as you know, the Macs dropped the SCSI slots years ago. It still works, when I can get my old … |
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Ok i have a MacBook and i try to click on a video and it says you don't have the proper plugin. It says you need video/x-ms-asf-plugin something MIME. Does somebody have a QUICK and easy to understand solution without long explanations. Thank you |
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Greetings! New machine, updated to 10.5.5. I've bought LaCie Ethernet disk mini - 1Tb drive w 10/100/Gbit and USB - which is plugged in to my 10/100 network so that I can share it between 2-3 Macs. A friend has this drive which works well on similar small network, so … |
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I upgraded to 10.4 a smige ago and while renaming files i'm getting an annoying message dialog *2 attachments :)*...since we get a lot of files that need renaming and I was wondering if anyone knew how to turn this off and use the nonDefaults for both scenarios...so "add extension" … |
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This website was working fine until sometime on Sunday when suddenly I got this message: The connection has timed out The server at [url]www.activeboard.com[/url] is taking too long to respond. * The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. * If you are … |
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Hi. If anyone has multiple partitions (computer with Macintosh OS X) then please can u give me the output of system_profiler SPSerialATADataType command on the terminal? If system_profiler SPSerialATADataType doesn't give any output then try one of the following: system_profiler SPIDEDataType system_profiler SPSerialSCSIDataType Whichever command out of these three gives … |
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My Appleworks 6, stopped working.........I'm not sure why. I trashed my application and then proceeded to download it from Apple support. The download went fine but when I try to install it I get the following message............"Cannot Find the Default Location!" Can someone help me? |
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OK- I'm having major problems here. I'm just playing around on an old eMac, running with OS X. I was mucking around and rebooted in an OS 9 that was on there. When I rebooted it, it tried to install OS 9 or something, I turned it off (stupidly enough) … |
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I am trying to connect to a wireless router and i dont understand what I need to do to allow the router to recognize my laptop (Mac Powerbook G4, version 10.3.9) .. any hints?! A friend asked me to check if I have an Airport card, and I guess I … |
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How do I reformat a flash drive in Mac OS X so it's also readable in OS 9? The flash drive is accessible in OS X but not in OS 9 (no icon; nothing except a brief flicker of the drive light). I tried launching an OS 9 application (PageMaker) … |
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I have a few Macs in my group that fail to print to PDF using Acrobat's Distiller 7 driver. On these Macs, I can save as PDF from the print dialog, but have to be able to print to PDF for workflows. Upgrading to Acrobat 8 solves the issue, but … |
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If I administrator of the apple mac G4, I couldn't access one of it's Hd. Its ownership & permissions checked me as no access. Now i want its unchecked and access that Hd. This time any where of the machine didn't appear that Hd correctly. Pls, advise me what should … |
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My roommate bought an airport express before I had moved in. We now have 3 computers wireless off this router (Me and my two roommates). Recently my boss gave me his old G4 laptop and I am having a hard time connecting to the internet. My G4 shows full bars … |
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I have a G4 that is not booting. I turn it on and it beeps once. The power light on the tower randomly fades in and out along with the light on the monitor. I tried to boot from OS 10.3 (Panther) disc, to only get the same result. The … |
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I'm having a really hard time ejecting my cd out. I've tried dragging the cd icon into the trash. Tried restarting the computer and pressed on the eject button on my keyboard. Is there a way for me to manually tell the computer to eject my cd? This happened before … |
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Upon pushing the start button my G4 rings like a phone before the boot up sound and then proceeds to stay on the white screen with the apple displayed and the circle spinning below the apple. Nothing else happens. I have tried to reinstall with startup CDs, but the machine … |
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Has anyone had any experience with Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection software for Mac, or logging into a remote Windows server via a Mac through the internet? The company I work for requires me to be able to log into their server from home by typing in a URL in Internet … |
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Today, when I inserted a new DVD-R into my superdrive, it wouldn't mount. It had been working fine an hour before. There is no problem with CDs, new or previously written to, or DVD-ROMs or DVD-R with data on them. After trying repairing permissions, using MacJanitor, and trying new DVD-R … |
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I just noticed from within the finder that the root of my drive has a file, with no extension, called 0, that is a 0 byte file. Does anyone know where this could possibly have come from and whether it's save to delete? It should be, no? I'm thinking maybe … |
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hi there, i purchased this imac g5 dec 2005 and it worked perfectly for 4 month. Machine Name: iMac G5 Machine Model: PowerMac8,2 CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.0) Number Of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed: 2 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 512 MB Bus Speed: 667 MHz Boot … |
I just found out about a shell script /etc/daily that mac users recommend running daily or weekly. It supposedly removes old system messages and junk. Does OS X invoke this script automatically every so often or must it be manually invoked? Is it very necessary? |
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My iMac G5 has had this problem already for a little while, and I think it's in need of codecs reinstall. iTunes and QuickTime work normally, but that's about it. RealPlayer and Windows Media Player 9 play video, but without sound. Same goes for their respective browser plugins. I think … |
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Originally i noticed that safari sometimes had trouble loading java applets. I was trying to go to the Kiseido Go Server and Safari quit unexpectedly. I downloaded Firefox to use instead. Unfortunately Firefox did the same. This also occurs when I try to load the game "runescape" |