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| | My Powerbook G3 has been sitting unused for about a year, because of a G4 upgrade. I took it out yesterday to start it up, and it won't start. I left it plugged in overnight, and still nothing. At the time of my upgrade to a G4, the G3 was … |
| | Hi Folks. Does any body know where the battery is located on the G3.8.6 tower. I think it is a 3.6v. Any help would be appreciated. Regards Norm. |
| | hi there everyone! my mac g4 works just fine except for one thing for some reason when i access mac help it does not work anymore!! please help thanks  |
| | I have just bought a macbook and the "help" section says the hard disc can be partitioned and re-formatted for Windows applications. Is is possible to partition so that part of the disc is formatted for OS and part for Windows? |
| | Does anyone know the exact specs of the X1600 in the new Intel iMacs? I mean core clock speed, memory speed, number of ppl's etc. and in particular about the 256MB version which is an option in the 20" iMac. Is it more similar to the X1600 Pro or the … |
| | Hi there, I recently got a quad G5 and thought I would be able to access my AGP G4 via target disc mode. But when I connect the 2 computers this way, My G5 can only see the internal disc in the G4 that has the operating system. I can't … |
| | Hi, Just to see if anyone can help My Pc running XP home has stalled and I want to take some photos ( that I hadn't backed up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) off before I do a complete reinstall of the drive. There are two options as I see it a) Run a … |
| | I am running a PowerPC867 with 640MB SDRAM, using OSX10.3.9. For several months now have noticed delay in accessing some software, particularly aware while running email (Eudora). Delay is accompanied by cycling noise from hard drive in four rapid pulses, pause, pulses, etc. Rainbow circle is on screen, sometimes ticking … |
| | Hi Hope someone could be able to help me with the problem I am having. I have an Ibook 500 Mgz running OS 10.3. I recently bought an external dvd writer and used usb to connect. However when I insert a DVD, I get a message error in initailization, no … |
| | I have two external firewire drives which will no longer mount on any computer. When I run Disk Utility to verify them, it says: Checking HFS Plus volume. Invalid B-tree node size. The volume needs to be repaired. Volume check failed. Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972) … |
| | 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 … |
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