Mac Forum / General / Hardware / July 2006

Question: "  I want to take two digital video firewire sources live
and display them on two separate windows using my mac at the same time.
Does anyone have any ideas?

I have a Powerbook G4 Aluminum 17 inch 1.5 Ghz that is
not working properly.
I have a question about something on the logic board
that's visible if you remove the plate over the memory

I am getting a Intel iMac and will install XP on it using either
bootcamp, Parallels or both.
Can I (and how) set up an external USB2 hard drive to use with this if
I want to put both OSX and XP files on it?

The price difference between different various types of 1 GB SO-DIMM
DDR2 is significant.
- USD 150,- Corsair Value DDR2 SO-DIMM PC5300 1024MB,
Unbuffered,Non-ECC,128Megx64,CL5,667mhz

First off, I just want to say that I am not a MAC tech at all.  I am
doing this as a favor to a friend who's hard drive went bad.  Please
excuse my ignorance.
I put a new Western Digital 60 Hard Drive in a PowerBook G4.  When I

i know this isn't a mac question, but i'm hoping someone
can help me.  i'm a longtime mac user and always find
helpful people here.
My old sony clie nx70 is dying. I bought a used one and

Im using a Powermac G4/800 Desktop (Quicksilver 2002), with a cable
modem.  Friday night I had ligtning damage to a number of things in my
house, and one of the things apparently damaged is the eithernet port on
my Mac.  The networks control panel shows that no cable is connected ...

I just got an external USB keypad but it isn't recognized by my iBook
(10.4.7) anybody got any ideas how to get it going? It is made in China
by "Travel Solutions"

Just checking in here as I purchased a 256MB PC2100 DDR SODIMM RAM module
for my daughters iBook.  Installation was a snap (almost literally).
However, upon bootup it appears to be still only reporting 256MB.
Is there anything else that needs to be done to get this machine to

Why does the wireless Mighty Mouse require a wired keyboard to set up?
My Mac already has a Bluetooth keyboard and (non-mighty) mouse. The
computer has internal Bluetooth - it came with them. They work right out
of the box - no setup necessary. Why couldn't I use them to set up ...

I know there were posts some time ago about fan issues, and I didn't
have one then. Lately, my fan runs at high speed all the time. I've got
a dual 1-GHz G4, running 10.4.7. I don't recall reading about fan
problems in the latest upgrades. Have I maybe got a clog in a vent or

I am new to the Mac world and am trying to build up a Power Mac G4 AGP
(OS X 10.4) with a few upgrades.  One of them I am having trouble with
is adding an SATA drive (400GB Hitachi).  I am keeping the existing
original 40GB hdd as the boot disk, but adding a CompUSA Serial ATA PCI

Few days a go one of these players arrived to my home. I've installed all
the software from bundled CD and it worked fine, but today it comes to a
problem. My iPod status lamps (yellow and green)started to blink. I was on
some forums where the same problem have been occured to a ...

My 2002 imac doesn't have an Airport card. Would a linksys 802.11 usb
network adaptor be a work around? I really don't want to search ebay
for an Vintage Airport Card. Let alone have to open my Imac up.

I am trying to hook up my linksys wireless router. I called the linksys
tech support. They said I need to configure my dhcp setting. But I see
no Dhcp  setting under network preferences. Am I missing it? I have
hooked up everything. And I am even  connected to the internet. I am