Mac Forum / General / Hardware / July 2008

is there a possibility to get a circuit scheme for a Powerbook G4, 1.67GHz?
A small piece on the motherboard started to smoke. We have the possibility to
replace it, the problem is, that it cannot be recognized. The piece in question
is labeled "3BDBK", the spot on the board "Q1585" ...

For the first time in a couple of months I've used my iSight camera
which is built into my Intel iMac and found that it is requiring an
enormous amount of light but still producing an extremely dark picture.
In fact it is totally unusable.

Last night, quite by accident, I noticed a magnetic field at the upper
right of my 24" iMac's display.  A little more investigating revealed
that there are 14 such regions around the display itself: four each
spaced along the top and bottom and three each at the sides.

I can no longer login to my iMac. Is there anyway I can erase the
drive? Do I have to take it out of the case and discard it?
Can the drive once out, be used in any manner.
How about the 17-inch screen? Can it be used?

I like the Mac monitors, they are rectangular, and excellent for Excel
spreadsheets, as they are nice and wide. But sometimes, I have a long
vertical document in front of me and I just want to turn that monitor
90 degrees and read my screen that way. Is there a monitor that allows

I'm looking for a non-Apple (to save $) MacBook battery replacement.
I've so far found only http://store.fastmac.com/product_info.php?cPath=10_4&products_id=151
from FastMac. I don't know anything about them, and they're $99
instead of the $129 that Apple is currently asking, so I'm ...

I have a mirror door G4 dual 1.25 with 10.4.6.  I am trying to install
classic but it won't let me start up from the 9 install disc.  I have
selected it in the prefs, I have tried holding down the C key.  Nothing
works, keeps restarting in tiger.  Any ideas out there?  Thanks.

Hi.  I own a 24" IMac that I bought last December.  I also have an
external 500 gig firewire hard drive that I use for Time Machine backups.
I keep my Mac and the hard drive on all day and night, although I put
the Mac to sleep before I go to bed.

Does OS 10.3.9 have a built in CD burner and if so does it only
install if it see an internal apple branded CD or DVD burner already
installed in the computer?
If I use an external burner on either USB or SCSI. Can I use the OS X

Hi *,
I am newbie as far as camcorders are concerned. Right now I sit in front
of a Sony DCR-VX1000E (miniDV-based) which is connected to my MacBook
via Firewire.

I'm thinking of buy a MY BOOK STUDIO EDITION 500GB because it's the
cheapest 500GB FW800 HD I can find. But I seem to be coming across a lot
of negative feedback, especially by Leopard users.
Thoughts?

Does anybody know whether consumer Macbook (White/Black) will get the
LED display? Any information on the cloud about it, any rumours,
whatever?
Thanks in advance for your information.

I have an original/Mid-2007 Aluminum 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo iMac in need of a
RAM upgrade.
Would this Transcend RAM (part number TS256MSQ64V6U-SM)
<http://www.c1com.co.nz/shop/step1.php?number=12824> work? From what I

iBook G4, OS 10.4.11
Discus 4.2
Epson RX680 All-in-One
I'm looking for a high bridge to jump from‹or to throw something from.

Hi.  How are all the DVD formats that the Mac supports different from
each other?
DVD-R
DVD-R DL