Mac Forum / General / Hardware / January 2005

I have a Mac G4 Cube connected via USB to a MOTU XT Express. I
experience an whine (ca 1 kHz) in the audio signals. This whine is
dependent on the brightness of the (cinema) display! When brighness is
set to full the whine is gone. It really is the display, as soon as the

I just bought an eyeTV 410 and have a problem exporting to DVDStudioPro.
Some channels export at 720x576 and DVDSP imports these no problem, but most
channels are either 704x576 or strangely 544x576 and DVDSP just does not
want to know. I am sure the "Export for DVDSP" function ...

I have an 800 MHz iMac Flat Pannel running Mac OS 10.3.7 which has been
acting strangely for the last couple of days: programs quitting
unexpectedly, corrupt downloads and finder crashes.
The Apple Hardware Test program supplied with the machine reports a

can the new ipod photo play quicktime movies?
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I'm looking for a USB 2 pci card that will support DEEP SLEEP for my G4
450 DP machine running OS 10.2.8 and maybe 10.3x soon.
The card should should have 4 or 5 ports, cost $10 - $20 and hopefully
support 2.0 speed under 10.2.8. There probably will not be any storage

i need to wipe out my hard drive and was wondering if i will lose all
of my music on my ipod or does the ipod back it up or if i will lose
all of the music is there anything i can do about it

I've got a DP 2Ghz machine with the GeForce FX5200 card in it. I'm
running a 22in NEC CRT and a 17inch LCD/TV for my second monitor. The
new CPU came with a DVI to VGA adaptor and I bought a Dr. Bott's ADC to
VGA adaptor to run a second monitor. I want my best possible image on

Can anyone recommend a cheap (less than $100) USB scanner for use with
Panther? Its principal use will be to copy drawings (mostly black and
white line drawings, but some color work, and some photos as well) to
the Mac for modification in an graphics program.

Weird Airport stuff going on here, and I'm looking for suggestions.
Up until two days ago, my system worked flawlessly:
Pismo Powerbook G4/400 with 802.11b card installed.
DSL line & router wired to Netgear wireless router.

I am a brand new ibook G4 user and as a economics student I work daily
with a Casio alegra FX 2.0 plus calculator. In order to transfer files
and programs to my calculator I need a Serial port, which my ibook
doesn't have. I've been thinking about buying a USB to Serial converter

I have just gotten a new G5 and my cameramate USB 1 is not seen or loaded by
the computer [driver is installed]. The drive is visible in the System
profiler. Any ideas why it is not seen? On my G4, it would be seen as a disk
and call up iPhoto automatically.

What is the max amount of RAM a G4 IBook can take?
(800MHz)
and..........where is the best place to buy it?
TIA

When I hook up a keyboard and mouse to my iBook 700 MHz, and run it
through a 20-inch monitor, the system seems to be running like it has
butter on the CPU. Does anyone know why this occurs? The system seems
to run fast enough in Word and Safari just as a laptop without the

Subject line says it all:  I have the standard Apple mini-VGA to VGA
cable, about 6 inches total length, for my iBook G4 and it works fine
with a Sun LCD display.  For cabling reasons I'd like the same cable in
a 1 foot or 3 foot or even 6 foot length.  I've done some web ...

What's the pixel pitch of a 20" G5 iMac?
Why isn't this info available at apple.com?
The pixel pitch of a good quality 20" LCD monitor (Sony,
ViewSonic, etc.) is in the .255 - .26 range.