Mac Forum / General / Hardware / October 2004

Sometimes 2 of my four drives do not appear when I turn on my
computer. Then I can reboot and sometimes they will reappear and I
can access them. Does this mean the drives are bad or is it the
drive connections? I can hear a sound like a motor winding down

i have a powerbook g3 400 lombard running os 9.  i am shopping for my
first cell phone and am considering getting a cheap one with a cheap
digital camera therein with an eye towards taking photos of
furniture i want to sell on the internet...

I have one of the first mini iPods which has resided in the left fairing
compartment of my Goldwing and has given me many miles of songs over the
riding season. The riding season is now over for me in Indiana and I am
moving the iPod to hook up to speakers in the computer room.

After spilling coffee on my keyboard, I took it apart and dried it
out.  My bottom line of keys no longer works like they should, and
instead have retained some command properties. The other three rows
work great. Any thoughts?

I just perchased a Segate 160gig Serial ATA HD but for the life of me
I can't figure out how to mount the stupid thing. Help!!!!
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I need to know if there is any way to force a hard drive to mount so I
can save my data.
Nothing I have in the way of software can see the drive. I've tried
Drive Setup, TechTools Pro 3,

Anyone got any idea what I can do now: After a full install of 9.2.2 from
the CD ROM (obviously), on restart, the OS now cant see it's own CD ROM.  I
was given the option of installing other software when I finished the
install but didnt imagine it would entail this?  Is there a ...

I have a 2 month old 20GB iPod that I'd like to sell or trade,
straight up, for a Dell Jukebox.  This device works like brand new,
has never been abused and comes will all original accessories.  If
you're interested please email me directly at

I have 4 La Cie external firewire drives on my G4 mac running 10.3.5.
There are 2 drives on each firewire port.  One of these drives (the
oldest and just about 6 months out of warranty!) has recently developed
a strange problem.

GPScity.com has an online petition which they hope to submit to major
GPS manufacturers such as Garmin and Magellan in order to convince
them to write their software for Mac users.  The petition has been up
for about a year, and yet they have only 500 signatures.  Are Mac

HELP! I'm having Problems with MouseWorks 5.7 on OS 9.2.2....
I have a Kensington Turbo Mouse Pro ... the big trackball with 4
buttons.... only 3 buttons click in OS 9, and NO special features work,
such as double-click, drag, etc. They are ALL single-click no matter

I just bought 512MB to upgrade my ram & hopefully allevaite all
the kernel panics.  This is a well documented, customer doable
upgrade.  Printed out the instructions provided on MacHelp, followed
the protocols up until step 3, removing the access panel.  Let me

is it possible to upgrade the video in an imac? its a 350mhz with
256mb ram but only 8mb video which is, needless to say, causing a
slowdown.  thanks.
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Hi. Thank you, in advance, for your response to this post.
I have an iMac (350 mhz, 20 gb hdd, 256 mb ram) which is missing an
optical disc drive :o(
I was wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to network the iMac,

I'm looking at the CTX S962G 19" LCD Monitor (Model# S962G), and I
want to verify this monitor will work with the digital output on my
PowerMac G4.  The monitor does support DVI, but is this all I need to
check?  Does the Mac have special connectors for digital video output