Mac Forum / General / Hardware / June 2005

I have ibook G4 with a combo drive. My question is the CD-RW is no
longer suitable for my monthly backup due to the 700MB size limit.
I'm thinking to get a new DVD Burner. Instead of having my drive
replaced with a Super Drive, since my drive is still working like a

I have set up the Date & Time in my Mac G5 to set them automatically from a
NIST website.  However, the time in my Mac is behind 3 secs from the one in
the time server.  I have looked everywhere for some answers to no avail.
Does anyone have any idea as to why the difference?

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 ...

I have a Hollywood dazzle digitiser and want to digitise then edit down
loads of super8 video, then burn something the edited version to DVD for my
kids' posterity. What is the best format I should use so that the final DVD
can be played on an retail DVD player? I shall be using ...

A good while back I bought a Village Tronic pci video card to drive a
second monitor for my 7300/200. It was the 'Mac Picasso' -- basic and
cheap (just what I wanted) -- and it is in fact still happily pumping
away today, even though the 7300 has had a brain transplant (G3 450) and

Someone is giving me an dold powermac (not sure the model, perhaps a
G3) and I was wondering if a standard CRT monitor that I used with a
PC will work with it? or do i need a special 'mac' monitor?
thanks.

My dad has a Graphite version of the iMac DV (slot loading). I have
tried Googling on this but to no avail. Anyway:
Will this model of iMac be able to have an AirPort card installed in
it? He wants to get broadband, and I'd like to not have to run an

What hardware device or PCI card do I need to allow my mac to accept a
live camera input, but more than one camera at a time? I see
surveillance type cards with BNC connectrs, not many with Mac support.
I know about firewire, but I can only do ONE DV at a time with that.

I keep hearing that when Intel-based Macs come out, all-new peripherals
(printers, etc.) will be required. Any particular reason for this?
I mean, my printer - HP Deskjet 6840 - connects via 802.11g wireless
networking. Why wouldn't *that* be compatible right out of the box?

I recently bought a used PowerMac G4 400MHz (AGP) with two ATI video
cards in it. The second is an XCLAIM VR 128 PCI card (Rage 128 Pro
based, 16mb, ROM#113-57406-108). I asked the guy several times if he
had given me all of the cables, adapters, etc. that came with this

My Radius IntelliColor Display/20e starts up green, but with a strong
green that suggests having the brightness turned up way too high. The
green is like a
overall very strong wash, pretty much unusable since it's so intense.

I'm looking to upgrade my G4 733 DI PowerMac video adapter (GeForce2 MX).
Anyone know if a GeForce FX 5200 Ultra will work in the 4x AGP slot?
Thanks,
--Evan

I purchased a G4 iBook back in July. In the past few weeks, the lettering on
many of my keys has begun to simply rub off.
I have used desktop Macs with Apple keyboards for a dozen years at both home
and at work, and I never had this problem. So, I don't think my fingertips have

Last month my hard drive failed.  I have replaced it with another Maxtor but
since reinstalling my software I cannot get my Microsoft Keyboard to work
properly.  It is okay for typing but any of the special keys will not work.
I have no idea what the problem is but I did reformat ...

I am trying to use a Western Digital 40GB hard drive as an external
drive for my G4 iMac. I am using OS 10.4 Tiger, if this matters. This
drive was formerly in a PC and has data on it which I need to retrieve.
I have put the drive in a USB 2.0/Firewire enclosure and cannot get it