Mac Forum / General / Hardware / November 2007

have an airport extreme, which after 3 years reliability, lost its
connection last week. Reset factory defaults etc. and all was fine. Now
signal strength has gone, even when cited alongside the laptop.
Sounds like a hardware issue, which I assume makes it uneconomical to

Replacement PC power adapters are less expensive than apple power
adapters. Will any PC power adapters work with a Titanium Powerbook
G4(17inch, 1.6 ghz).

My laptop no longer detects any available networks. How can I determine
if the problem is one of misconfiguration, software, or a broken Airport
Card?

I tried to install boot camp from leopard yesterday on my intel mac mini
Partitioned fine, but I forgot to for format the partition before installing
XP so now left with the Disc Error message.
Here is the problem. I cannot get the Mini to boot in any other way -

I've an Apple Mini coming and am considering
some thing other than a mouse; the only pointing
device I've ever used. I'll check out trackballs but
think some other options exist. Dan

Since upgrading to Mac OSX 10.5 the Button Manager has stopped working
on my WD My Book Pro external drive.
There is no information at the Western Digital site about this issue and
I was wondering whether anyone else has had the same problem?

I have a macbook and I always wondered if it is the one that I bought that
has significanly low internal volume or it in general. I always have to
stick close to it to hear it fine.
Anyone else facing the same problem. I read somewhere online that Apple does

Anyone have a suggestion for a steering wheel/foot pedals set that works
well with a Mac? I find lots in my local big box store here in Germany,
but none indicate Mac compatibility, and I hesitate to just buy one and
hope it works.

I'm planning to sell an Airport Extreme Base Station.
Before doing so,  I was planning on erasing the name, the password and
the Airport Network info.
Is this sufficient and what I should do to protect that information

i'm wondering if anybody can tell me a workaround for getting avchd
video files from my sony memory stick onto my g4 laptop?
whenever i hook up the cam via a usb cable i can see the files but can
not select them in the latest version of toast, or imovie

I've been thinking about the Mac Pro but noticed that the video options
available are pretty much at the bottom of each of their respective
categories.  Is the video upgradable via any off the shelf PCI-e card or
does one have to buy a special "Mac" version?  For instance, would ...

Are these http://www2.computeruniverse.net/info.asp?id=90146153 DIMMs
the right ones for a Lombard G3 Powerbook?
Thanks - im totally new to the Mac world. My first Mac :-)))
Best regards,

Any suggestions of bootable external firewire/USB drives? Thanks. -Dave

I need to reformat this drive so it can be used with my MBP, OSX
10.4.11. The box says it is as easy as running disk utility. But I don't
see anything about formatting the drive, just erasing, First Aid,  
restore, RAID, partition. So.. how do I go about reformatting. I looked