Mac Forum / General / Hardware / October 2004

Can anyone recommend a good external Firewire drive? I have a 20 GB
LaCie drive, about 3 x 6 inches, bus-powered, that works great with my
iMac and iBook but they don't make that model any more. The new ones
designed by Porsche look bulky and ugly to me and I don't think they

iDVD 4 quits unexpectedly during encoding, always after several hours.
I am so frustrated. I wonder if anyone has any ideas. I have upgraded
my G4 specifically to run iDVD, and now iDVD quits unexpectedly after
hours of encoding but before actual burning begins. The error happens

Hey everyone; I am completely new to the mac universe and I just
purchased a powerbook g4. I've never even been on a mac but since
i'm a education major, I figured I had better start sometime. If
anyone has any random advice I'd appreciate it a lot. I've very

Desktop 466 G4, running 10.3.5 with 640mg of memory; Firewire Maxtor
one-touch 200gb external drive.
I wanted backup, so bought a new Maxtor 250gb Firewire drive.
Both Maxtors work perfectly - but NOT at the same time!

Keyboard was unplugged during upgrade and it stalled the install. Later
when this was discovered, we unplugged the machine and moved it to
another location and set it up for a  re-install. However, when we push
the power button it comes on, no startup chime, then the fan goes to

working all the time.  Very tempermental, looking for suggestions on
how to fix/or deal with the problem.  I am thinking USB Server or
Hub of some sort?  Any help is greatly appreciated!!

I was wondering, is it possible to install a g4 processor in a blue and
white G3, with a revision 2 motherboard?  I have a 400mhz G4 processor
card that I pulled from a working G4 that I upgraded.  It is just a
stock 400mhz G4 processor, not an upgrade card made specifically for ...

I'm making and editing 26 - 1/2 hour shows on mini DV and I'm currently
using single 2 GHz PC, Premiere Pro 1.5 and a Matrox RT X 100 card.
With all the problems I have had over time, I've decided to make "the
change." The (my) PC is just too undependable (to me). When it works,

at work - I have a LaCie 'multi-drive' which will read/write DVD-RAM
disks (why we bought this drive).
One Disk the 'A' side would accept files (I could write to it). The 'B'
side would mount, BUT not let me write to it.  The disk is NOT

Firstly i know nothing about macs whatsoever!  My friends wants me to
install a wireless network in their house but one of their housemates
has mixed it up completely by having an eMac without any wireless
hardware present.

I have Power Mac G4, dual 867mhz monitor problem.
Bought it from a local auction and I thought I saw it switched on
working before I bought it. Very odd.
Anyway, when I got it home and power up the Mac and monitor using the

And another question. Is it possible to power off an internal display
(may be is it possible to unplug something inside)? I'm using an
extrenal monitor in a mirror mode and do not want to look at imac
screen anymore.

Hi, I have imac G3 500 and as I can see in the system profiler it has
ATY, Rage 128 Pro2 AGP card with 16 MB ram.  Maximum supported
resolution is 1024x768.
I'm using an external 17" TFT-monitor and nonstandard 1024x768

Wow!
I just saw the colorware iMac G5!  Since I don't really like the white
ones, I think I'll order a Black one!
http://www.colorwarepc.com/content.aspx?id=34

I have recently bought myself a 160GB Firewire 400 harddrive. After
just using it three days, I am at awe at how unstable the drive is
when using it with OS X 10.3.5. I made sure that I had the latest
firmware and still the file is system gets corrupted. I am wondering