Mac Forum / General / Hardware / February 2006

I'm looking to get two multiport USB 2.0 hubs, one for me and one for my
parents. I need more than 4 ports and the Belkin 7-port unit looks good.
Is it?
Or are there any other hubs that I should consider?

after upgrading  the RAM in my G5, 1.8ghz  from 1gb to 2gb, it starts,
shows the correct number of DIMMs, status OK with the correct speed, but
after about 20 minutes running, the screen freezes and then I see the
grey screen telling me I have to restart.

I posted this on comp.sys.mac.system two days ago because there's more
traffic there than here, but no one responded. Maybe someone here can
help?
I have a G4/400 (sawtooth) with a 10gig 5400rpm Apple ATA hard drive

Earlier today I was trying to adjust the screen resolution on my
monitor.  I did so and now I can't get anything on my monitor.  Can you
please tell me how to get it back to the origial bearing in mind that I
can't see the screen. When it boots up it is fine, then it just

I've had macs since the Plus (still have it) but apparently got stuck
at the 8600.  Due to finances, we do large animal rescues on the side
and it's expensive, I would like to upgrade so I could at least run
OSX and found a ridiculously cheap G3.  It's only operating at 233mz

I have a Mac G3 running 10.3.9 currently.  I swapped out my CDRW with a
Pioneer DVR 106D DVRW.  I burned a couple of DVDs at a friends house on
a Mac using Toast on his DVR 109D.  Mounted fine on his machine.  When I
got them home and tried to read on my DVR 106D it doesn't mount ...

Hello, I am trying to share two usb printers over a network. They are
connected to a G4 running OSX 10.3.9 with printer sharing enabled. The
print sever is connect via a standard cat 5 to a broadband router. The
router has 3 othe g4 macs connected to it.

I work at a community television studio.  Our main (read: *only*)
video-editing workstation is a Power Mac G4 933 (single processor)
running Final Cut Pro on OS X 10.4.tiger....
Supposedly, it came from the factory with a U160 SCSI controlor card in

Hey there good people.
I have a maxtor external harddrive that I used to store the quicktime
footage I editted my movie with..  I edited on a MAC using final cut
pro.  So the maxtor drive (which was labeled as being for both PCs and

Why are these two the same price for $249? That is a huge storage
disparity between the two for the same price? The 30gig does
movies/video also. Can anyone who has bought one or the other give me
the advantages of each? Thanks.

I have an external Firewire drive for my Mac and I want to connect the
drive to a friend's PC next week. I just read on this Mac-related thread
<http://community.livejournal.com/macosx/4755581.html> that Windows
won't automatically recognize an HFS-formatted drive. Someone there

I have a G5 Quad that I have a file share on that my wife's G5 quad
connects to (It has MP3's on it for example).  We are connected to each
other via a Airport extreme. I checked and it seems to be running at the
full 54 Gb.

I'm trying to decide on which 400 GB IDE drive to choose. I will be
placing it in a fanless Firewire cabinet (the OWC "Mercury elite Al":
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEFW912UAL1K/),
connecting it to my 15" Powerbook G4.

New York Times
February 4, 2006
Good Luck With That Broken iPod
By JOE NOCERA

Hi, I've just bought two USB enclosures using the VT6204 chipset. I've
managed to install the disks as per the instructions but neither of the
enclosures work with my Mac although they work fine on any windows pc.
The chipset is supposed to be fine with OS X but simply doesn't ...