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are all dead.  We just acquired a Quadra 950 equipped with this board
as well as two SuperMAC Thunder II ver 3.0.0 cards.  The system drive
(2GB Barracuda) is dead (heads won't load, drive 'pings' every two

Hello just moved from windows to a mac mini running osx - mostly great. But
I also use a Terastation to hold a huge number of music files. The
terastation (192.168.2.1) is connected by ethernet to my adsl router
(192.168.2.1) as is the mac mini (192.168.2.9)

I want to buy RAM for my powerbook. I am looking at 1 GB. The ones at
Apple's web-site is $500, while the third party OEM ones cost around
$150-$250. Because of the big price difference, I am tempted to buy
cheap

I have a G4/500 single processor tower. I want to drive a second LCD
monitor to 1280 x 960. Currently, I have an ATI card that has 64MB of
VRAM, but it will only go up to 1024 x 768.
Can anyone recommend an inexpensive PCI video card that will get me up

Hello;
Got new dual G5, unfortunately without modem. Got an old USRobotics external
56k V.90 serial modem (the white one), so does anibody knows will it work on
G5. Also I have serial to USB converter, but under network preferences I

I recently purchased a CompUSA brand 5-in-1 PCMCIA Flash Media
Reader/Writer that claims to be "PC & Mac Compatible", but I can not
get it to mount on the Mac.  It mouns just fine on my IBM ThinkPad, but
nothing happens when I insert it into my PowerBook G4 PC Card slot.

Hey all, I noticed when PC printers are out of a certain color ink it
prints anyway by default, what you print just comes out missing those
tones.  But my Mac (e.g. printing from Safari to an Epson 820, Panther)
just won't print when it's missing color ink (new black cart is ...

I need some help.  My boss wants me to burn several dvds for a client.
The client wants to play these dvds on any dvd player or computer.  In
my first attempt (which failed), I burn the dvd which will only play in
computers.  I have a G5 running 10.2.8. just using the disk burn.

Transferred 120 gigs of files from external firewire HD to Digital Audio
G4.  The G4 has CPU upgrade and SATA PCI card.  Twin SATA drives are
configured in RAID 0 via OS X (10.4.2).  Transfer takes place, but the
rest of the machine seems to hang.  Reboot when transfer is over ...

Greetings All,
I have zero mac experience and thought I would help a friend find a
replacement keyboard for his G3.  Will a standard USB keyboard (for a
PC) work? Any suggestions where to buy a ADB keyboard if not?

I'm really panicking here.  I was downloading AIM and it would never
really fully download.  It would stop around 95%.  I took my
Powerbook out of range of my wireless network because I wanted to
work outside.  I left it on sleep mode for a few hours.  When I

Thinking I could shortcut an upgrade I dragged an entire hard drive with
OS 10.2 and 9.2.2 onto an an external 80gig Lacie FW thinking I could
just drag what I wanted back after upgrade of system. Now emac will only
format it but not mount it. I can see the drive with Dataviz on ...

Devices:
ADSL Cable Modem
Cisco 831 Router + Switch
Netgear WGR614v4 Wireless G Router + Switch

I have a bit of a strange problem. My Z key doesn't work (does
work for uppercase). I thought it might be the keyboard itself,
however it does work on my other partition that has OS 9. Is there
anything that can be done? The partition it doesn't work on is OS X

I have a IIci (I like old Macs) and I'm trying to install a 2GB Quantum
Apple branded drive with OS 7.6 (CD). The drive was originally
formatted with Drive Setup 1.7.3.
The drive utilities with 7.6 don't recognize the drive and I can't then