Mac Forum / General / Hardware / June 2005

Hoping someone knows whether this is a card problem.  I just installed the
9800 and it worked great for a day.  I then booted up the next day and got
vertical lines across the screen about 1/8" apart on my LCD.  Is this a
problem with the card?

we just received a brand new 4 GB iPod mini but the player refuses to
play AAC tracks which I purchased from iTMS. Instead, it displays the
titles for a short moment and than skips to next title. mp3 titles,
converted from CD, are played without problems. I tried to update the

Is it possible to use a PS2 keyboard (Microsoft Natural - not Elite) on a
Mac G4?  Can anyone recommend a PS2 to USB adapter that really works?  And
what version of OS X is preferable for hardware flexibility?  I find the
Apple keyboard awfully uncomfortable.

I just bought a new PowerMac (2 x 2.7GHz) and have had it for 2 days. It  
is running great, but I've noticed there is a very quiet "beeping" sound  
coming from the system (about 1 beep per second), but only when the CPUs  
are basically idle. If the the CPU utilization goes above ...

I have a Beige G3 MT, with a fan that is becoming increasingly louder.  
In my process of replacing, I came across a fan, with a 3-pin female
connector, probably geared towards the PC world.  The power connection
from the Mac power supply is a 2-pin female.  Anybody have any idea ...

Just saw the thread and thought I would add something to the community this time.
Over Christmas break, I bought the Ximeta NetDisk NDAS 160GB device.  It sports some cool features.
First, it is a USB 2.0 Device, and yes that means it falls back to 1.0 if needed.
Secondly, it is a ...

Does anyone know of any tape utilities available in MacOS 10.3?  If so,
please point me in the right direction.
TIA

I'm looking to buy a 250Gb external Firewire drive.
FW 400 is good enough as it's for backup etc.
It seems that Formac are a bit cheaper than LaCie... are they as good?
Has anyone got any good or bad comments about either?

I have been looking at iBook's for a few months now and am finally
ready to purchase one. I have chosen on the 12" version, mainly
becasue of price. I just wanted to ask a few questions to make sure
the specifications will suit how I use the laptop.

Apple to switch to Intel in 2006
http://tinyurl.com/9fus6
Welcome to the PC world maccies..... :)
Now all that is left is for Apple to give up on the software side and

Quick Summary of Problem: Airport Express Assistant cannot find the
Airport Express!
Hello and I hope everyone is having a nice Thanksgiving weekend.
I just today bought an Airport Express (AE) with the intention of

I have a friend that has a digital camera that takes short movie clips and saves
them as .mov files.  He has take some with the camera rotated 90 degrees.  Is
there software that can be used to rotate the movie back?
TiA,

   I just bought a beige G3 desktop (233 MHz, revision 1 board?) which
starts up and runs seemingly fine, but I cannot get it to produce sound.
   When I power up, I hear the internal speaker audibly click but there is
no chime from the internal speaker. With a pair of external ...

Hi, Everybody
I'm a newbie to mac. I have a ibook G4 800MHz, does anyone knows is
that possible to replace the CPU, if I manage to find a used one. Is
the CPU sealed to the motherboard? I currently bought Vitrual PC 7.0

Do any of you know whether the fans on the back for the big, silver G5s
are intake or exhaust fans?  That is, do they blow inward or outward?
They usually turn so slowly that I can't tell.