Mac Forum / General / Hardware / December 2005

I am currently running an older G4 with an 867 GHz chip and am
considering upgrading to G5 for speed with Photoshop, etc.  I also need
a Windows box of some sort in order to view radiographic images from
home while on call.  Any ideas on when the new Intel based Macs are

Hi. If the backlight is broken on my powerbook, what are my options?
Thanks.
Morten

One of my kids got a Nano for Xmas.  Silly me, I should know that very
little is ever backwards compatable with Apple :-)  I have an old G3 300
with 128 of PCI ram  6G ATA HD and I may bump the ram up in that and give it
to him to install 10.4.3 & connect to iTunes!  But I am ...

I can connect successfully EITHER a FW800 harddisk (LaCie d2) OR my new
Canon MVX3i camcorder to my new 17"PB FW800/FW400 port respectively.
If both are connected (hd to FW800, camcorder to FW400), either one or
the other does not work (cannot double click hd to show its contents, ...

 I just pick up 2 Mac G3's.   One is running OS-X, and the other
OS 9.2.   The one with OS-X has a long list of users and I don't
have any of the passwords to access or reset any of them.
 Is there any backdoor in Mac OS-X where I can reset everything

Is it okay run Disk Warrior's hardware test on my two internal drives?
I was told that that test can be destructive if the drives are faulty.
I've been having a lot of crashes and freezes recently and the internal
back-up

Hung over this morning I was moving some files about and accidentally
moved a small itunes music folder (10GB) into a folder on my external
hard drive titled the same... 'itunes music' This is my back up music
folder with maybe 50GB of tunes on it....

   I just picked up a Newer Tech G3 upgrade card for PDS machines with
a  RenderPix daughtercard. This video card was a $1000 item in 1998.
Anyone interested in buying it?

In iMovie 3.0.3 on my Mac G4, I am using a Canopus ADVC 110 Advanced
Digital Video Converter to import sound from my video camera to iMovie
to use as music for titles I have created.
Now that I actually managed to capture the sound I wanted from my

I have a Mac G5 (OS 10.4). When I went to turn it on today it did not boot.
All I get is a black screen and the fans come on.
I do not hear any hard drive activity or beeps. I have tried holding down
COMMAND + OPTION

I have a Powerbook G4 (rev A1095), how can I know the maximum RAM that
can be supported?
Thanks,
LoB

Hi. I have a 6400/200 in need of a OS, could anyone tell me how new I
can go with this machine, OS 9 or higher? This machine was given to me
from a friend of a friend and so on, so far I like it, want to see what
it will do.....thanks, Mark

i have a dual 1.8 GHz power PC g5. a couple weeks ago twice the fan
kicked on loudly, someone told me it was a system chrash and to do some
maintenance, i zapped the PRAM and then i rebooted holding down
command-s, at the prompt i typed in

I thought I'd share some info regarding a Seagate 500 GB Internal SATA
drive (P/N ST3500641AS) I tried to install in my PowerMac G5.  The
physical installation was very simple, but the PowerMac couldn't not
see the new drive.  I assumed it was defective, but Seagate tech

I'm trying to upgrade my roomie's G# Lombard PowerBook with a larger
hard drive. I had a spare 40GB Fuji drive laying around after killing
the Sony laptop it was in, so I gave it to him. Unfortunately we're
having problems getting it to work.