Mac Forum / General / Hardware / February 2006

It seemed like a simple enough task-- Swap LCD's with an older
blueberry iBook, so I can finally be rid of the line of dead pixels,
and throw that new DVD drive in to my graphite.
It was my first time opening one of these types up, but I wasn't going

What is the largest size external HD available now, that can receive
power via the FireWire cable (i.e. does not require external power
supply)?

I am looking for a pci video card for a g4 and have heard that
certain pc video cards can be flashed for a mac.
radeon 7000
any others?

I have decided to buy one last PowerPC Mac before the Intel chips take
over.  I prefer cathode ray tube to LCD displays; I do a lot of image
editing.  I would like to hear some opinions about whether an eMac or a
Mini plus a new CRT monitor would be the best way to go.

The eternet port in my iMac seems to have gone bad. Can anyone suggest
a USB Network Adapter that they are sure will work on a Mac?

HELP!!  Why Won't My DVD-R Drive Work????
I have 2 separate Powerbook 1GHz G3 Powerbooks with OS 9.2.2 and OS
10.3.9.
I have BLANK DVD+R Discs made by Sony and Verbatim. 4.7 GBS, 120 minutes.

G4 400  AGP... 5 years old, had since new
put it to sleep
after a few minutes it died...dead as a doornail... will not start
thank goodness I had everything backed up on an external

I'm getting a Kernel Panic of the "Unresolved Kernel Trap" variety, and
the effective address of the memory element (DAR) is always the same:
DAR=0x00000490.
Anybody know how to decipher where that memory element is? These crashes

My Mac:  G4/400 € 960MB €  2x40GB Internal HD €  80GB External
(Firewire)  €  160GB External (USB 2.0)
I installed a Sonnet "Tango 2.0" USB/Firewire Card to drive my new 160GB
USB HD.

I have an older system (Power Computing Powerbase 200 cira 1997 or so)
with OS 8.6 installed on it.  I am trying to extract certain amount of
information from it to put on a newer computer.  I was able to find a
Yamaha CDRW drive for fairly cheap, and supposedly this drive works ...

Help - Budget/Equipment for Documentary
Hello,
I need help coming up with a Budget/Equipment Needed List for a
Documentary.

AVIs - How do you view them on a Mac?
Quicktime and Windows Media Viewer never seems to want to display AVIs.
What to do?
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I bought my husband a maxtor 3100 200 G external drive for additional
storage. It shows up fine on his desktop (mac os 10.x). The drive specs
mention only pc-compatability, not mac. I believe somewhere I read it is
formatted in fat-32.

Mac/OS 9 only recognizes hard drives up to 137 gig. I have a
200 gig hard drive, but MAC/OS 9 only recognizes the first
137 gig of the drive. I have a tower Mac G4 from the year
2000.

My brother-in-law had a Maxtor 6Y160P0 in his PC which he asked a
computer service store to make into his C: drive. When he took it to
them the drive was working great.
They then formatted it using Windows XP SW and told him it no longer