Mac Forum / General / Hardware / November 2006

I am in the process of replacing the hard drive in my Titanium PowerBook.  I
took the old drive out. However, I am unable to pry off the connector from
the old drive. Please advise me how I can achieve that.
Thanks! /PaulN

Has any one run into this problem:
I'm  at work and playing the ipod and all of a sudden, the the ipod
stop playing the album and is now run through my music of 5,000+ one at
a time and I tried to stop it can not turn it off  and I was able to

My Mac Mini Dual Core Intel doesn't detect a USB 2.0 hard disk.
What can I do? It came with a driver for "Mac OS 8.6 and up" and it's
supposed
to be "Mac compatible" however the driver doesn't seem to run under Rosetta

I've had it for 22 years Anyone know what it's worth?

I have an old Powermac, but I think I'm getting a MacbookPro next year.
But right now I want  to get external storage. I've happily bought from
OWC (macsales.com) before and they have these 500Gb external drives:
    $270: Firewire400 & USB 2.0

I have a pretty high performance video card in my PC, and I want to
connect my Apple Cinema display to it. While in GUI mode in Windoze,
the display is beautiful. However, when the PC starts up and is in
"text mode", the monitor power light just flashes. I think the monitor

Please help a tech challenged soul! I need to buy a docking station,
preferably with speakers, for an 11-year old's "ipod nano". Basic
requirements:
1. Should charge the ipod with AC

Okay, I am running out of space on my 80 gig Intel Mini, thanks mostly
to audio files. So, I am considering an external hard drive. I also just
began fooling around with iDVD; the space those files take up is
absolutely mind-boggling, even for just iPhoto slideshows with music.

I have a DVD-Ram Drive in my WindTunnel G4, that seems to have finally
died.  In looking for a replacment I see that NEC is making a really
nice drive that does Dual Layer +/- as well as Ram and +/-RW.  What I am
wondering is if most these E-IDE drives use a "Common Instruction ...

Excuse the posting from a Windows machine. I have a G4 Quicksilver
DP800 that I use for several tasks. Yesterday we had a power outage
that knocked out power for 2-3 hours. The Quicksilver today refuses to
power up. When pressing the power button, it glows momentarily then

is there an easy, foolproof way to put sys 9 on a macbook that runs OS
X 10.4.8?
thanks!

I'm thinking about upgrading from my G5 to the Mac Pro. Any rumors about
what will be updated and when. I have looked around the Mac sites but
have not been abel to find anything. Any info or links will be
appreciated very much....john

I have a 20" G5 iMac and, after a year and several months, the fan
seemed to running a lot more than at first. I ran my finger along the
lower edge of the display/computer and sure enough it was coated with
dust. Not visible, but blocking air flow. Since I did this, the fan use

One of my Macs, a non-iSight-equipped G5 iMac had its internal drive die
today. I took it to my local Apple Store and they tried to convince me
that I needed to spend $200 for them to install a newer, bigger drive.
But I've read that the non-iSight iMacs are easy to replace drives ...

Hei
I have just bought another QuickSilver 867mhz G4, which is going to have
a new 'motor' with a GigaDesigns 7447A Dual G4 1,6-2,0ghz processor. I
have more CPU upgraded Macs and have always with these set the CPU a