Mac Forum / General / Hardware / August 2004

My old Stylewriter II has finally kicked the bucket, so I need some suggestions
for a good new printer. Color would be cool, but I also need good basic black
and white repro. I'd hate to have to replace an expensive color cartridge that
still has plenty of ink, just because the ...

We have a Brother HL-1435 Laser Printer connected to a computer running
Windows XP. On the same home network we also have an eMac running 10.3
and an iMac running 10.1.5. With printer sharing turned on in the WinXP
computer, we were able to successfully set up the eMac to send ...

Is there any utility capable of doing a thorough testing of RAM on
modern Mac models that can't run OS X?
FWB's "Hard Disk Toolkit" will not run on OS X, so I have no way of
checking RAM thoroughly on G5 model hardware.

Can a Power Macintosh 8600 with PCI slots support a USB 2.0 card that says
it work with a Mac.  I am running OS 9.1
and I would like to use my HP photo printer with the 8600 and OS 9.2.  I
would like to share the printer with my G4 running OS 10.3.5 as well.  It

Anyone here with an ATI Radeon Mac Edition PCI card (_not_ the Radeon 7000
Mac Edition!)? I have the PC version of this card and want to flash it with
the Mac ROM. Unfortunately, all Mac ROM files available in the net are for
the Radeon 7000 but not the original Radeon. And the ...

My friends G3 won't startup. Battery is fully charged. The fan spins
(can hear it) but there is no startup chime and the screen stays black.
Have tried the reset (Ctrl-fn-Shift-Power). Nothing works except the
fan.

Hi.  I'm new to Macs.  I've got a little bit of "other" computer
experience (but not much!).
I've just been given a Performa 575 but not any of the manuals or
discs that originally came with it.  I'm the curious sort, so I'd just

I had a couple of old macs (IIci, 9500/120, etc) so threw all the memory
(remember when memory came in 2 Meg chunks!!! - I know, I know, you all
had Lisas!!) and I took the best bits from each of them and made myself
an iTunes player for the basement!

Got a travelstar from a PC laptop with windows XP. With the Pismo(X.3.3)
i can't use System Profiler or Disk Ut, i got a spinning wheel, but no
information. The prog. will not stop so i have to use force quit. I want
to initialise the disk. What can i do now? Sorry for my poor ...

Recently I picked up an old powerbook duo 230 (and some accessories) off of
a scrapheap.  Since it turned out to boot, I decided to learn a bit more as
most of my previous experience is with x86 mswin & *nix.
One of the parts I have is the external floppy unit, but I was under the ...

I am preparing a Lombard 400MHz for upgrade to OSX, currently running
9.2.2.  I am trying to increase RAM up to 512K by using two 256K SIMMs.
The evidence so far suggests that this is not possible.  Putting both
the SIMMs in causes random freezes, hangs, and other failures, either

Firewire died on my Quicksilver G4 and I've been unable to restore it.
After trying everything, I gave up on the onboard ports and bought a Sonnet
Tango 2.0 PCI card.  Unbelievably, I can't see my firewire devices plugged
in through the PCI card either.

I was wondering if it¹s possible to do a Raid-0 on two drives and be able to
make that your start-up drive for Mac OS X.
I have read you couldn't or weren't supposed to Raid-0 drives for your
start-up volume in the past with early versions of Mac OS X. I currently

I would like to get a larger HDD for my desktop G3/266
MacTracker says I have either ATA or SCSI
How do I find out?
Do I need a 80-pin to 50-pin adapter?

I am getting ready to select a DVD burner for my 350Mhtz Beige G3.  I
have the following requirements I hope to fill:
DVD + and - R and RW capable
internal or external