Help! Help! Lombard won't boot.

2004-02-29 Thread mmnihals
Symptoms The “prohibitory sign” shows up on startup and it stay that way. I've done all I've could based on the apple support docs eg: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464 But nothing works. Zapping the NVRAM/PRAM didn't change the situation at all. I can't get the CDROM tray to

AppleCare Question

2004-02-29 Thread Michael Shaw
I have a two-week old G4 iBook and I ordered AppleCare for it (mucho dineros) over the internet from the Apple Store and got the emails that indicate that it has been shipped. My first new Mac in about ten years. What exactly do I get ??? Will there be there anything besides papers in this

iBook screen mobility question

2004-02-29 Thread Michael Shaw
I saw something on eBay made by Macally that looks like a plastic holder for iBooks and PowerBooks that holds the computer up in the air so that it cools nicely. The one I saw does not raise the computer a few inches but holds the computer almost vertical. The picture showed an iBook in it

Re: AppleCare Question

2004-02-29 Thread Tim Gochnour
On Feb 29, 2004, at 8:45 AM, Michael Shaw wrote: I have a two-week old G4 iBook and I ordered AppleCare for it (mucho dineros) over the internet from the Apple Store and got the emails that indicate that it has been shipped. My first new Mac in about ten years. What exactly do I get ???

Swapping out a DVI TiBook display

2004-02-29 Thread Scott Howe
Hi Folks- I need to swap out a friends TiBook display. I've done many swaps on Wallstreets and 190's in the past, but never to a TiBook. Anybody with any experience doing this? How much time, difficulty etc? Also, any hints, how-to's etc...would be appreciated. Thanks! Scott -- G-Books is

Re: AppleCare Question

2004-02-29 Thread Ray Sleeva
On Feb 29, 2004, at 8:45 AM, Michael Shaw wrote: I have a two-week old G4 iBook and I ordered AppleCare for it (mucho dineros) over the internet from the Apple Store and got the emails that indicate that it has been shipped. My first new Mac in about ten years. What exactly do I get ???

Re: AppleCare Question

2004-02-29 Thread Kara1
I have had Applecare on both my previous macs and will be buying it for my Powerbook in March. With Applecare, you get a 2 year extension on your warranty to bring it to a total of 3 years and this includes 3 years of phone support. When you first buy a Mac, you get 90 days of what they call

Re: iBook screen mobility question

2004-02-29 Thread Kara1
Michael, On 29-Feb-04, at 6:03 AM, Michael Shaw wrote: I have never opened my new iBook any further than it takes to see the screen. How far can they be safely opened??? I looked through the iBook literature for a picture showing the limits of mobility of the screen but there aren't any.

Re: AppleCare Question

2004-02-29 Thread Gisela Drayton
I have had Applecare on both my previous macs and will be buying it for my Powerbook in March. With Applecare, you get a 2 year extension on your warranty to bring it to a total of 3 years and this includes 3 years of phone support. When you first buy a Mac, you get 90 days of what they call

Re: AppleCare Question

2004-02-29 Thread AKR
The Applecare service is definitely well worth the money and one additional benefit that I forgot to mention in my initial response was that it can be a great selling point when you are attempting to sell your used Mac 2 years from now. If you still have 6-12 months (or more) of Applecare

Re: AppleCare Question

2004-02-29 Thread AKR
On 29-Feb-04, at 9:00 AM, Andrew wrote: Is it valid overseas? I will be moving to Korea and just bought a new PowerBook, Applecare is only worthwhile if I can claim against it in Korea. Andrew I am not sure from your e-mail where you are currently residing but you should call Applecare in

Re: Wierd noise in Mail

2004-02-29 Thread Michael Shaw
When I hit Send using Mail (panther 10.3.2 on G4 iBook) the computer makes a strange sound, in stereo, of the message whizzing off into the great void. Thiis is the only souund effect I've ever heard from this program. Are there any other sounds in the Mail program ??? M -- G-Books is

Re: Wierd noise in Mail

2004-02-29 Thread Andrew
Yup, when you download mail there is one sound, and if you check mail and there is none, you get another. The sounds are subtle, and rather cool. Andrew -- The lord's our shepherd says the psalm, but just in case., WE'D BETTER GET A BOMB! © Tom Lehrer, 1965 On Feb 29, 2004, at 9:27

Re: Wierd noise in Mail

2004-02-29 Thread Andrew
Speaking of Mail, it is a terrific program. I'm a long-time Windows user and really do like Outlook 98/2000/XP for Windows. When I bought my PB last week, of course I added Office v.X and imported (rather difficult from Outlook) everything into Entourage. Well I also started playing with

Re: Some odd behavior

2004-02-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Saturday, February 28, 2004, at 09:14 PM, Seeker wrote: Today I installed an Airport Base Station M5757 (Graphite) and, in my Dual-USB iBook, an Airport Card 8.2001 and also added a Linksys BEFSR41 Router, v.3. This has been followed by some very unusual behavior when I am

Re: Blown bridgeboard/chipset

2004-02-29 Thread Brian Scott Oplinger
Hi I have blown a chipset on my external firewire enclosure. Do you know where I ca get a replacement? I had a couple of old SCSI enclosures and after buying a FW enclosure noticed it was exactly the same thing, except one had a FW board the other a SCSI. So off to the web I went searching

Wall Street Video Problem

2004-02-29 Thread Gary Goldberg
This sounds what bedeviled my G3/250 WS which I bought in June 1998. The problem had exhibited itself by Jan 2000. I only found out later that Apple would repair this at their expense, including overnight shipping to/from Dallas (they provide the box). Perhaps the offer is still valid (I didn't

Re: AppleCare Question

2004-02-29 Thread Tim Gochnour
On Feb 29, 2004, at 9:57 AM, Ray Sleeva wrote: On Feb 29, 2004, at 8:45 AM, Michael Shaw wrote: I have a two-week old G4 iBook and I ordered AppleCare for it (mucho dineros) over the internet from the Apple Store and got the emails that indicate that it has been shipped. My first new Mac in

Internet Sharing

2004-02-29 Thread Mark D. Chapman
My iBook has a modem but my BW does not. I thought that I could just check internet sharing on the iBook and get the BW to connect through the iBook. However, I can't get it to work. The BW picks up an IP address but I can't access the internet. Both computers are running 10.2.8. I have

Re: AppleCare Question

2004-02-29 Thread AKR
On 29-Feb-04, at 9:29 AM, Andrew wrote: I'm in the United States, and sometimes companies chintz on their warrantees once you cross a border. Andrew That is true for some companies but this is why you want to call Applecare and maybe also check their website for international coverage

Re: Memory for Wallstreet

2004-02-29 Thread john slavin
Actually I now see I'm backwards in that it's a low profile, which of course means it would work in both, so does that means we could have two 512s and have a wallstreet recognize both? On Feb 29, 2004, at 5:45 PM, john slavin wrote: I see that OWC is showing a memory module for the top slop

Re: AppleCare Question

2004-02-29 Thread AKR
With desktops, well, there it's a toss-up. In my experience (non Powerbook) Macs either break right away (within the 1 year warrantee), or don't do so for years and years, and things that do break are reasonably cheap to replace (primarily HDD's and optical drives). This is not completely

Re: AppleCare Question

2004-02-29 Thread john slavin
On Feb 29, 2004, at 5:51 PM, AKR wrote: With desktops, well, there it's a toss-up. In my experience (non Powerbook) Macs either break right away (within the 1 year warrantee), or don't do so for years and years, and things that do break are reasonably cheap to replace (primarily HDD's and

Re: Internet Sharing

2004-02-29 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 29/02/04 16:53, Mark D. Chapman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My iBook has a modem but my BW does not. I thought that I could just check internet sharing on the iBook and get the BW to connect through the iBook. However, I can't get it to work. The BW picks up an IP address but I can't

Re: Help! Help! Lombard won't boot.

2004-02-29 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 29/02/04 08:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure what more I can do other than going to the local Apple shop. I can't recall the last time when my mac unusable like this. I think my applecare has expired. I'm stuck using a XP box :( If anyone has any insights/wisdom

Re: Memory for Wallstreet

2004-02-29 Thread Clark Martin
At 5:45 PM -0600 2/29/04, john slavin wrote: I see that OWC is showing a memory module for the top slop in the 512 MB size that they say fits the Wallstreet. I didn't realize that the Wallstreet would take a 512 and recognize the whole thing. Is it possible to have a combination of 512 and 256

Re: Memory for Wallstreet

2004-02-29 Thread Stanton Mitrany
Hi, Folks! Please forgive my intrusion into this conversation. I've been receiving contradictory opinions about whether I can use a matched pair of low profile OEM 256MB SODIMMs from a Titanium G4 in a Wallstreet 233, and have them recognized and be usable as 512 MB of ram by that machine. Their

Re: [OT] Problem accessing email behind firewall

2004-02-29 Thread Pete Gregory
Laurent proclaimed: Thanks, Gavin! I tried getting to the IP addresses directly, but they must have done something because they are also blocked. I'll see if I could use VNC, but I doubt it will work. If you know Fannie Mae, you understand that they are very sensitive to the outside world and