Mac Forum / General / Hardware / February 2006

Greetings! I have a G4 AGP 400 and am finally upgrading to hopefully run
OSX. I want to buy a new internal hard drive but am getting confused with
all the choices and connectors! My existing (factory installed) one is a
10GB ultra ATA 66. All the newer ones are ATA 100 or 133. What ...

Anyone have experiences with power consumption on the various Mac mini
models? Numbers in watt or amps, temps...
I'm considering using a mini, using a 7200rpm disk and 1GB ram, as a
home server and partly workstation (reading mail/news nad browsing).

I have a Mac G4 dual 500MHz with 100MHz bus speed.
I've been looking at the PowerLogix PowerForce47 G4/1.7GHz with 512K
1:1 L2 Cache Per Processor for PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics/Sawtooth and
Gigabit Ethernet Models.

I have a Mac G4 dual 500MHz with 100MHz bus speed.
I've been looking at the PowerLogix PowerForce47 G4/1.7GHz with 512K
1:1 L2 Cache Per Processor for PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics/Sawtooth and
Gigabit Ethernet Models.

Symptom
The Power Mac G4 computer screen is black. The boot tone is not
present, the drive does not operate, the fan is not running, and LED is
only lit when holding the power on button.

Hi. I'm looking for cases which proect ipod nano from scratches.
I've been computer connection on 36th, but it manages official stuffs only.
Those are not attractive, and expensive. I just need simple thing.
Is there any palce to buy other vendors' products near upenn?

I have been tring to correct my mac for sometime. Here is what I have
done so far.
First, I am running  G4 MDD, Sys Ver 10.3.9 , Proc Power PC Apollo 1
GHz, Built in mem 1.3 GB, 32 bit addressing yes, Lgical Ram 2 GB, Par1

Hi from Spain,
I recently got an Imac 233 (just the first iMac with egg form!!) and
its internal cd drive was broken. It just don't read!!!. I need to
change it, because I want to boot from CD (Ubuntu installation) and I

I have an old Microtek ScanMaker X6 (the SCSI version, but that's neither
here nor there) and the inside of its window is in need of a good cleaning
-- you can sometimes see "streaks" in scans, particularly if they're mostly
dark. I was just wondering if anyone could offer any tips ...

I am going to attempt to flash a radeon 7000 from pc to mac.
I am looking for m208full.bin and m7k.bin, and the utilities.
I haven't found them on the net yet...
links or files would be appreciated, as would any help.

I'm confused - SATA, PATA, etc Hard drive????
I need to know what kind of 400GB or 500GB hard drive to buy and what
type of FIREWIRE 400 case to put it in.
I'm looking at SEAGATES... but they come in ATA 100, SATA, SERIAL,

Now using G4 I should like to carry on with my dear old G3 ADB keyboar
but the G4 only has USB
I should also like to use the Kenchinton Roller Ball
Where, in the UK, can I get an economical solution - a F to F USB/ADB?

I've got a Wallstreet which wouldn't take power, so I opened it up and
replaced the sound/AC board.  On getting it back together and plugging
it in, the green light came on for a few seconds with the fan, then both
shut off again.

I found this picture on google but now i can t find it link
http://ca.geocities.com/besthelper9/Untitled1.jpg  CAN ANYONE help me?

I've recently tried to repair permissions on my hard drive and at some
point of the process the application aborted and told me to quit and
restart. The progress bar was still present and once when I tried to
quit the application told me that if I quit while repair permissions is ...