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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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Hi, I have a problem with my powerbook G4 (12 inch). MacOS 10.3 will not boot. I used the cd included with the mac to check the hardware. Everything seems fine. On the other hand the disk utility program found many problems that it could not solve. I thus tried …

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The scenario: We tried to install WinXp in it but we failed. So we installed MacOs in it again. Before it came to completion, the installation freezes. We tried to eject the MacOs installation cd but we it didnt work. We poked it but still no effect. The pc displays …

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About 3 months ago my saddle bags on my motorcycles broke off while I was on the freeway. Unfortunatly my G3 Titanium laptop was inside one of them. The laptop was a complete mess but I was able to save the hard drive that somehow survived the accident. I need …

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Hi Folks I have an iBook 500mg G3 iBook and it runs perfectly except for one thing: I cannot insert a blank CD in the tray. When I close the tray it spins for a second or two and then the door pops open. I have tried most everything I …

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Whenever I connect my digital still camera to any USB port it does not appear on the desktop, but jumps straight to iphoto. Even after quiting iphoto I can't find it enywhere in the computer. Everything else connected through USB seems to appear on the desktop. I'm working on a …

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I just heard about this site from a friend. Crazy prices for holiday shopping. I just bought on for myself and my parents. [URL=http://www.mactallic.com]www.mactallic.com[/URL] Happy Holidays :-) ........

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Hello .. knee deep in theorys but here goes. My realviz stitcher program freezes at the end of a render and can't export. I've tried everything I can think of .. realviz suggest I upgrade my graphics card software (ATI radeon 9650) ... but there doesn't seem to be any …

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first I don't use a mac ,just wondering if you can use a usb 2.0 device for file storage ,new 40 gig toshiba harddrive ,not formated yet , with Mack laptop,is it possible or does the harddrive need to be for a mac or can it just be formated mac …

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Ok i have an iBook G4 (10.4 tiger) and i want to print using a LaserWriter 16/600 PS printer. I can not figure out how to set it up in OS X. According to apple's website it is still supported by 10.4. I want it to go through my liksys …

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hi i am going to uni next year to do graphics and so want to buy an ibook to take with me i really dont kno exactly what i am looking for and what any of the jargon means, and i also want adobe photoshop included in the package, so …

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I am looking into getting a nw laptop and really like the macs layout but need to work in windows for certain thngs. Is it possible to dual boot any of the imacs or powerbooks with windows xp? If so what laptop did you do it with and is it …

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I am new to this forum and I would like to first say hi. I am Daniel Meyers, 21, sacramento california. I have been a heavy pc users since I was in 3rd grade. But Mac's offer a great deal more in terms of thier video editing and overall stabuility. …

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I am about to buy a Powerbook G4 preloaded with a 512MB PC2700 SODIMM. My current Powerbook Ti 800 has one 512MB PC2100 SODIMM. Can I recycle this and use it in the free slot in the new Powerbook to upgrade it to 1MB of RAM or are the two …

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After working with my new g5 it suddenly has started to shut down by itself .. with no warning. I went to power it up today, and it didn't respond and then it worked for 10 hours then it's starting to power off by itself. Ideas anyone? I'm trying to …

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I installed Tiger onto my ipod and now it does not mount. Itunes doesn't recognize it and when I went back to installation my ipod isn't recognized. I am able to do disk repairs but that is the only place that my computer recognizes it. In system profiler there is …

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I have a g4 ibook running OSX (Panther). After installing Norton System Works my system started running slow. I tried to remove the program, but when I tried to access my applications to do so everything kept freezing up. I restarted w/ the OS disk and ran Disk Utility. It …

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Hello! I'm an IT support person with my own 40 year old indy production company. Bought G5 Oct 2004. We use FCP, Dreamweaver MX, Photoshop 9CS and not much else on this G5. One external Western Digital 120G and LeCie DVD burner attached. No third party nor unauthorized software. No …

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Ok Im a senoir in highschool and Im off to college soon, I talk to my admissions rep. and he suggested I get a G5 Mac, but the problem is that I don't think a monitor comes with the G5. Can anyone tell me if a monitor comes with one …

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Ok, My Palm Zire syncs fine with my PC at work but with my Mac at home it does not. I keep getting "File Locked" errors. I've taken screen shots of them. I got some suggestions from Palm that did not work. Here is what they told me to do: …

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:sad: My company has made a software that is dess capture.This software capturing paper documents and converting them into high quality, instantaneously sharable across the globe and easily retrievable image files.So it uses the HP scanner.But problem is that scanner closes working after month.Then network engineer goes and uninstall the …

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I tried to post this earlier; no go. I am very new to the Mac world. Purchased airport extreme card online, tried to install it myself. When I tried to power up my iBook, nothing. Black screen. Had to remove the airport extreme card to make my mac operational again. …

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After a conversation with my very knowledgable local supplier.. I walked out with a vague impression that you could for instance, hook up a v fast dual proccessor pc to a G4 via a high speed network connection .. and, while working in OSX on the G4, use the pc …

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I turned on my new PowerMac today and its been at the start up screen with the apple logo for 20min, the fans just start to pick-up speed and it sounds like the things getting ready to take off. whats up?

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I have a mac keyboard with an inoperable numberpad even though I see a green light when turning the "numlock" on and off. I have switched keyboards and still have the same problem. I am currently running osx 10.2.8, is there somewhere in my preferences where I can turn the …

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i'm not sure if this item has ever been adressed but, i can't get the disk drive on my g4 to open....i press the button(top right corner of keyboard) and no response....i tried rebooting and still no results. Any suggestions on how to solve this even if just temporarily are …

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I'm a semi-technical ditz. You should know that right away. I can, at the same time, do a lot. And not much. I use my computer mostly for emails, and writing projects that involve viewing .pdf files. I'm starting to learn PhotoShop, slowly. Want to learn how to retouch and …

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New to this forum - curious to see that someone else is having the same unusual problem on almost the same day! Just installed new 120GB HD in original iMac. Formatted disk as specified for OS X (first partition 7.45 GB). Verified disk etc. using disk utility; no problems. However: …

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A friend gave my family a 2 or 3 year old Mac Powerbook G4 when they moved away. We have two PCs(which we understand much better) and we would like to transfer the 2500+ songs on the mac over to the pcs, that way we can put them on ipods, …

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