Mac Forum / General / Hardware / September 2004

I have experience replacing hard drives on PCs.
Now I have been asked to check out a faulty iMac.
from the description of the fault .. "message about hard drive" + "rattling
noise"

I'm new to OS X. The problem is everytime I unstuff a .dmg file it makes a
volume with that file. It keeps making new hard drives, instead of files.
Anyone know what is going on and how to fix it?

I am a powerbook user who just inherited a G4
desktop at work. It's running OS 10.1.5, but
I will need to upgrade to Panther (some of
my applications only run under it). The G4

I would like to use a wireless mouse that only has drivers for OS X on
my Powerbook which still runs OS 9.2.2. Is USB Overdrive able to do
that?
Thanks in advance.

I have a radeon 7000 coming.  What kind of adapter do I need to connect
the VGA on the card to the Apple monitor I am currently using?
jt

I am getting multiple duplicate genre titles on my ipod and all the
songs named for a specific genre are spread out between all four
listings of the same genre. Does anyone know why it is doing this? I
did not use the iTunes tagging software but one called "Tag & Rename"

I recently acquired a Dual G4 with mirrored drive doors.  When I attempt
to load OSX on it, it locks up(system freeze, I have to unplug it).  I
think it may be a thermal issue, and I've been looking for anyone who may
have had a similar experience and can maybe point me at a ...

I'm working on a Performa 6320de that I assumed had a bad power supply
because it wouldn't power up at all. After replacing the PS, the unit
booted fine a few times and then wouldn't power up (I could hear a
bleep in the speaker and see the lights on the keyboard flash and then

The board cooling fan on my G4 Quicksilver MO8493 just flaked. The blades
move forward after a few minutes of running and starts rubbing against the
guard.
I¹m having trouble finding a replacement (Verax, Smartcooler, etc,) that

There were many reports of hard drive overheating in the first
generation of G5's. The problem was traced by a number of dedicated
hobbyists (with little or no help from Apple) to a misplaced heat sensor
in the hard drive bay; and also to problems with the firmware that runs

How to choose selection is mind boggling. I just got of the MacWarehouse
site and there were 3 pages of scanners. I'm giving up my HP 4C SCSI
after years of very good use.
I want the scanner to be compatible with OmniPage and Photoshop (latest

I recently got some new memory for my computer at work.  It is a G4
400Mhz.  I bought two DIMMS of Crucial 256MB PC133 CL2 32x64 memory.
When I installed them, each shows up as 128MB, instead of 256MB.
I don't know much about Mac hardware, so I tested them out in an older

My nephew is on his way to college and needs a computer. I would like to
get him a Mac of some sort. But I only have about $600.
He will do 'student-y' stuff like write papers, download legal music
(I'm supposing?), surf the 'net, use his digital camera to send home

I need to know whether it's possible to set up a sound system using the
CD/DVD in my computer, which will match an upper level micro (bookshelf)
"hifi" system in sound quality.
I had been planning to buy a Sony or Panasonic system for about AUS$550

Up on eBay until the evening of September 3rd is a lightly used FS-1
Focus Enhancements Firestore. This allows for Direct to Disk Recording
saving you much time in video production.
Technically, there are 2 up for auction, top 2 Bidders will win.