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All of a sudden none of my firewire accessories are available.The system profile has nothing at all. Any ideas what has happened how I amend it?

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Hi Camperjack, I got there by downloading on another machine & emailing it to my myself. If you can kill Adware & Lycos sidebar I'd be grateful! Anyway, here are results... Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 16:44:05, on 02/03/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer …

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hi .. i have a network here with some os9 macs, 1 win notebook, 2 g4s with os x panther ... and a hp laserjet 4 my problem is: i can't find the network printer in os x.. i can load that apple talk window in the printerlist again and …

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:sad: just go done putting in a new hd in my wifes powermac G3 beige tower and when trying to install OS i get this message : A VALID DESTONATION VOLUME CANNOT BE FOUND??? what the hell does that mean?? its a brand new drive fresh out of the box …

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first of all like to thank everybody for the help with the wiring of the motherboard to get it back up and running, but now i have a different problem i turn on the unit and i get a white screen with a floppy icon and a blinking question mark? …

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My G4 titanium is only occassionaly able to read cds, and is not always showing up in the dock when there is an external hd attached. It was running 10.3, but I tried to fix the problem by installing 10.2.8 and it is not able to read any cds now. …

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Been here and the XP forum before with several issues. Some of the spyware stuff was fixed but still could not get into windows update, WMP, system and several other small issues. I finally worked with MS SP2 guy and many problems were fixed, I can get to update, WMP …

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Hey, my clock has not held time for months. After having to run Norton everyday to fix incorrect file dates I went out and bought a battery. I know I should join the 21st cenury and just go out and buy a G5 but I can just afford the battery …

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Ok, I have followed along with Cdesia, and tried the same things. I cannot get into windows update, WMP does not work (have tried to remove and reinstall 10) and Yahoo mail I cannot compose, change, move or delete mail. Here is my HJT log...any help would be great, my …

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Help me. I'm not very good with macs but I have on. I have a flat screen iMac G4 and it is not working well. I went to use my restore CD (6) and after I got to the third disk it said that it could not restore the restricted-segment …

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I searched here and didn't see a posting dealing with this, but if I missed it, my apologies for reposting this problem. [U]The hardware:[/U] - g3 powermac (blue and white) - apple display (smoke) - panther OS - other software, etc.... [U]The symptoms:[/U] - on startup the display has the …

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I'm in the market for a new powerbook. It looks to me like the new 1.67 G4's don't look have too much new under the hood (do I REALLY need an extra .17 Ghz in the processor?) and it's a response by Apple to pressure for a new machine. I'm …

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Hi all you lovely people, I'm running a G4 Quicksilver 733hz, 890ish Ram, Motu 2408 mark2+3 cards, logic 7, having the usual problems with CPU freaking out if I put any amount of plugins/virtual instruments on (more of a problem now as all new stuff is hungrier than ever) someone …

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hi, i wonder if u can help me? i have a 400 MHz PowerPC G4 Tower (agp graphics) and a bus of 100 MHz. as you can probably tell i'm looking to upgrade the processor to something around the 1.2 - 1.5 Gb mark and i was a bit confused …

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I replaced a Quantum IDE drive in my external Firewire enclosure. Under OX 10 Panther, I formatted this drive and lost darn near 40% of the advertized space. I know it's normal to lose some to overhead, but THAT much? Any ideas? Details: Western Digital 200MB Caviar ATA-100 EIDE (typical …

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I would describe myself as one of he most diehard Microsoft supporter that you'll ever come across. I develop on the Windows Platform, I run all my servers on the Windows Platform, etc, etc. I preach Microsoft's products all the time; even if the conversation has nothign to do with …

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I have been trying to help a customer with upgrading a handfull of his MACs to Gigabit, but not really being a MAC person, I didn't notice the version of OS version most Gigabit NICs require. Now I know they arn't going to upgrade their OS to OSX just for …

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Hi I am looking to buy a mac laptop that is able to operate industry standurd software, can anyone tell me a spec suitable to do this...i have looked at a few although coming from a pc i understand macs do not need as high a spec to run at …

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Is there some trick to permanently linking two or more tracks so that they always play together? For instance, Jackson Browne in a concert played "The Load Out" and "Stay" one after the other, and that's how I always want to hear them, even when everything else is constantly "shuffled". …

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If anyone knows what might cause my display to not light up and the green and yellow indicator lights just blink continuously. When you unplug it and repower it, it does the same thing and the screen does not light up at all. Any info at all will be greatly …

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I purchased SBC/Yahoo DSL and I can't install it. Although my MAC G4 (old version, like a G3) has an ethernet port, the DSL flashes a message that it can't find it. When I go to control panels, TCP/IP, and pull down connect via, I only see PPP and Appletalk...no …

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I love watching DVDs on the road or on the dive boat, but today I had a disturbing experience. I watched an episode of CSI Las Vegas at about 15 FPS. The video was very choppy, but the sound was normal. A quick swap reviled it was just the CSI …

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I've a pretty standard G4 setup on OS9 and 10, but my keyboard 'goes away'. Nothing - no lights, no mouse - OSX or OS9. Extract the keyboard USB from the back of the box and reconnect and 'bingo', back to work. So far only five or six times with …

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I think I found and got rid of most of it. Anyways, everytime I reboot and use the Internet, I get an empty pop up (restricted site). I think it's only the first time when I open the Internet Explorer window and then never appears again. Anyways, it's quite annoying …

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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 …

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Does anyone know why, when I am trying to install a new printer in OSX, the print center quits unexpectantly? HELP!!!!

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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 …

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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

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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 …

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Hello, First, what is TDM? Targeted Disk Mode. Back in the day of the first Mac laptops, and I think it was System 7, you could take a Mac laptop that had a special SCSI Cable (it was missing a pin) and using a control panel setting, turn that laptop …

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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 …

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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.

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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 …

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: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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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.

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Can someone please point me in the right direction here? I have run all of the progs adaware/spybot s&d/symantec/CWShredder/APM/Hijack this to no avail. I've gone into and read up on all the solutions for the problem but I still cant get it off this computer. Here is a post of …

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Will someone please look at my hijack list and tell me what to remove? I have run ad-aware and spybot, they find it but it keeps coming back. Logfile of HijackThis v1.98.2 Scan saved at 4:33:56 PM, on 8/24/2004 Platform: Windows 2000 SP3 (WinNT 5.00.2195) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 (6.00.2600.0000) …

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