Mac Forum / General / Hardware / November 2005

accidental erase
help help

My computer was working fine, and I was trying to back up my work on a
external FireWire hardrive.  It kept denying my files when I tried to
put them onto the Fire Wire.  I then went to the System Prefrences
because it said that I did not have priveliges.  When I typed 'Fire

One of those TV station "news" archives. But not RealPlayer content. Looks to
be Flash.
Shouldn't this work for Macs? All the Flash ads that load on all the web
pages I visit work (unfortunately). Why shouldn't this?

I hava a new NEC ND-4550A in an external Case connected by USB. I can
read and burn CDs and I can read/play DVDs without any problem. But
whenever I try to burn a DVD, the program starts burning, writes out
"Burning Track 1" or something the like - and then spins forever.

anyone got one laying around?
g3 700
The apple store told me $270 plus tax whether or not I tried working on it
myself.  I partially took it apart to see if it was a hard drive problem

I have no idea about how can I listen 5.1 sound from Mac mini.
Can anybody give an advice?

Can anybody tell me what the "NB Temp" sensor is, as reported for the
iMac G5 (iSight)  by temperature-monitoring utilities like Temperature
Monitor and ThermographX? I haven't been able to find out anything from
the usual Apple support sites nor the documentation for the monitoring

A friend of mine is getting himself an iBook for Christmas and wants to
dump the cheap inkjet printer he is using now with his PC.
He is cost-conscious and doesn't print in color so I'm recommending he
get a laser printer. But which one?

Someone gave me an Apple 17" Studio Display Monitor, one of those old
blue & white ones with the ADB connectors. It worked fine for about the
first 20 minutes that I had it hooked up. Then I got these things,
depending on how hard I banged on it:

Can anyone tell me how to get into the back of an iMac to replace
the battery?  I did it once but so long ago i forgot how to do it.
Thanks
Joe

I have just inherited an iBook G3 - 900Mhz Power PC running OS X [v. 10.2.8]
with 256Mb RAM.
I have a Belkin ADSL router at home, and I would like to make the iBook 'net
ready' so that I can use it to access the web wirelessly.

I use LaCie SilverKeeper to back up my internal h.d. to an external FireWire
drive. I exclude nothing in the backup; system, applications, data is all
copied to the external h.d.
When I open System Preferences and choose Startup Disk, I get 3 icons: the OS

TTP won't let me Wipe a volume. When I choose the volume in
the Open dialog box, TT then sez: "Permission denied. You
do not have write access to that item." The Get Info box
tells me that I (this user) have "read and write" access.

I feel I have got stung big time by apple √ I saved up and bought
Final Cut Pro 4.5 and after months of saving finally got enough
together to buy the new Imac g5-
To my surprise it did not run due to the fact the software requires a

My G4's case fan was fine. The power supply fan was the noisemaker. My
computer repair person replaced it and all is well. He also cleaned the
whole inside of the G4 with an industrial compressor (I think that's
what he called it--it's in a separate building so dust doesn't get