Mac Forum / General / Hardware / July 2004

Do computers just stop working when they go, or do they have a  lingering
death? I have an over 10 year old MAC 9500 that's acting              more and
more flaky with too many crashes and problems. Just        got a new G5 but was
wondering about that. Do they age, or just go  all ...

I just bought the new click-wheel iPod.  I've been having the usual
start-up problems of learning how to use it, etc.  Anyway, one thing
that struck me is that even when I deleted all the songs
(accidentally, btw!!!), it shows that there are only 18.5GB available.

Does anyone know whether I can put a G4 installation of OS X (put in on a
350 Yosemite board which seems to come from a G3) into a 266 FLAT beige G3
which DOES work?  The G4 is nothing  more than a doorstop now and, -
although attractive, - can't be either fixed or worth fixing.  I ...

Hi, all.
I'm having a bit of a problem with an Airport Extreme setup. It's
probably pretty basic, but so far the solution has managed to evade me.
It has to do with wireless-to-ethernet bridging.

Since a few days my dual 1ghz g4 (digital audio) operates really slow.
Activity monitor shows a process named 'kernel_task" is taking up 99-100
percent of cpu time. So 1 cpu is taken up by this process all the time.
My machine feels like an old 233 imac and I can't put my finger on ...

can someone please explain to me the deal with playing other region
dvds on an american bought iBook in dvd player? from what i
understand, you can set the region but after about 4 times you have to
permanentlyt set it? is this the case? i want to buy a british dvd but

I have an older G3 iMac running OS 10.3.4 and9.2.2 Classic.
I recently replaced my printer with an HP 1200 Laserjet that connects via USB.
I loaded the OS X and OS 9 HP drivers and the printer works great with the
native OS X applications.

...PC not seeing iPod. I've got an iPod 2, that I've had for some
time. My connection method is via Firewire and I know that the
connectivty is working as the iPod is getting power from the PC,
however the iPod docking software does not recognise the iPod! I'm

Hey ho.
I have a (moderately old) NewMotion FireWire enclosure (strictly 1394;
no USB2, at least not any that's accessible), into which I've put a 200
GB Seagate drive. When I connect it to my PowerBook (OS X 10.3.4), the

Have anyone experienced problems with the front firewire port on G5
PowerMacs?
I'm having trouble with 2 machines and know someone who has similar
trouble with their machine. My homemachine (dual 1.8Ghz G5) will not

I have just been given this G4 described as a 1.25 gig (although it has the
model number M5183 and a serial number of a 350 MHz) Seems to be a yikes
machine either with an upgrade or not. I have an OS X install disc from a
600 MHz 12.1 iBook which I am trying to use to diagnose or ...

Having upgraded an iMac DV to the latest OS 9 and firmware versions,
I'm now ready to install OS X, and then OS X versions of AppleWorks
and Eudora.  But a question has occurred to me:
Will the OS X app versions install into the same directories as

I mistakenly disconnected the power to my Blue & White G3 early in its
start up sequence.  It made a noise (clunk) that I had never heard before,
seemingly coming from the area behind the front manual startup button.  
Now, the computer will not start up at all.  Nothing at all ...

I mistakenly disconnected the power to my Blue & White G3 early in its
start up sequence.  It made a noise (clunk) that I had never heard before,
seemingly coming from the area behind the front manual startup button.  
Now, the computer will not start up at all.  Nothing at all ...

Bonjour à tous,
Depuis quelques temps déjà (un an), j'essaie de faire  des DVDs à partir
de films provenant d'un camescope JVC GR-DX300 et montés avec iMovie.
J'ai essayé d'utiliser iDVD, Toast, ffmpegX et récemment Sizzle.