Try "Fine Tuner Cleaner" you can get this from "Radio Shack"!!!
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>From: michaelangelo
>Sent: Mar 8, 2011 4:57 PM
>To: G-Group
>Subject: spills wireless keyboard
>
>The answer to this question may be obvious to some but it's a mystery
>to me: I use a wireless keyb
On Mar 8, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Ronald Sweet wrote:
> The power supply unit recently gave out on my Power Mac G4 Gigabit Ethernet
> Dual 500 MHz. I have now replaced the PSU, but in doing so I seem to have
> done more harm than good.
>
> When I turn the computer on with the power button, it plays
At 4:29 PM -0700 3/8/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Mar 8, 2011, at 2:57 PM, michaelangelo wrote:
If I accidentially dump my coffee on the keyboad is there the same
liklihood of shorting out or otherwise damaging the computer as
there is with a wired keyboard or is this actually a good way to
p
At 9:03 PM -0500 3/8/2011, Ronald Sweet wrote:
The power supply unit recently gave out on my Power Mac G4 Gigabit
Ethernet Dual 500 MHz. I have now replaced the PSU, but in doing so
I seem to have done more harm than good.
When I turn the computer on with the power button, it plays a chime
an
Then there's the PRAM button reset that should have been done as
well ...
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On Mar 8, 2011, at 9:03 PM, Ronald Sweet wrote:
I suspect it's because of careless handling of the hard drives when
I was working in the case. Apple's Power Supply Replacement
Instructions (accessed from docs.info.apple.com/article.html?
artnum=75312) tell one to disconnect the power cable
The power supply unit recently gave out on my Power Mac G4 Gigabit Ethernet
Dual 500 MHz. I have now replaced the PSU, but in doing so I seem to have done
more harm than good.
When I turn the computer on with the power button, it plays a chime and after
about ten seconds the monitor (LG Flatron
i inherited a sawtooth G4, and for the first couple of weeks i
couldn't get it to enter target disk mode, either by using the T key
on startup, or choosing it in the startup disk preferences panel.
then one day i tried it and it worked, and it has ever since. i think
what happened is that somewher
the UJ-825 in my powerbook G4 became increasingly fussy over time. cd
writing was prettyr reliable, but as for dvd writing, sometimes it
would report a successful burn , but the resulting dvd wouldn't read.
more often, either the drive would report "can't calibrate the laser
for this media" or it
If it's a wireless keyboard --- be sure to remove the internal
batteries BRFORE the 'dishwasher' treatment!!;-)
Chuck
On Mar 8, 2011, at 5:44 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:57 PM, michaelangelo
wrote:
The answer to this question may be obvio
On Mar 8, 2011, at 2:57 PM, michaelangelo wrote:
> If I accidentially dump my
> coffee on the keyboad is there the same liklihood of shorting out or
> otherwise damaging the computer as there is with a wired keyboard or
> is this actually a good way to prevent damage beyond the yeyboard or
> mous
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:57 PM, michaelangelo wrote:
> The answer to this question may be obvious to some but it's a mystery
> to me: I use a wireless keyboard and mouse. If I accidentially dump my
> coffee on the keyboad is there the same liklihood of shorting out or
> otherwise damaging the com
The answer to this question may be obvious to some but it's a mystery
to me: I use a wireless keyboard and mouse. If I accidentially dump my
coffee on the keyboad is there the same liklihood of shorting out or
otherwise damaging the computer as there is with a wired keyboard or
is this actually a g
Hello,
What is your budget? What software do you plan to use? Which Mac will
you be using?
I've been using an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 for several years with
absolutely no trouble. They sell for about $100.
http://m-audio.com/products/en_us/Audiophile2496.html
However, it's A/D signal-to-noise i
On Mar 8, 2011, at 6:38 AM, Jonathan Smith wrote:
I have a 17" powerbook G4 1.5 with the MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-825
superdrive.
I am not a frequent burner of dvd/cd's. But I am used to more modern
drive which don't fuss over what type of media you use.
According to it's specs, it reads dvd full sto
On Mar 8, 2011, at 8:58 AM, t...@io.com wrote:
On Mar 4, 7:35 pm, John Carmonne wrote:
I'm dealing with a PM G4 MDD Dual 1.25 it's a solid daily driver. 2
GB RAM 2 HDDs 2 optical drives. The machine stopped booting after
the installation of an aftermarket CPU fan, Doesn't make too much
sen
On Mar 4, 7:35 pm, John Carmonne wrote:
> I'm dealing with a PM G4 MDD Dual 1.25 it's a solid daily driver. 2
> GB RAM 2 HDDs 2 optical drives. The machine stopped booting after
> the installation of an aftermarket CPU fan, Doesn't make too much
> sense being the wires are the same.
This
On Mar 8, 2011, at 8:53 AM, Jonathan Smith wrote:
> Thanks peeps. Just realised this is the g-group and not the lappy
> group. Doh.
>
> I haven't cleaned the drive Dan, no. It reads audio CD's flawlessly,
> so I am confident it's clean.
The read heads for CD's and DVD's are different, it's enti
Thanks peeps. Just realised this is the g-group and not the lappy
group. Doh.
I haven't cleaned the drive Dan, no. It reads audio CD's flawlessly,
so I am confident it's clean.
I wouldn't care if they were cheap, but we only stock good quality
media. They work just fine on the other drives in the
On Mar 8, 2011, at 7:33 AM, Dan wrote:
>>
>> Actually I'll disagree with Dan here; it works perfectly well to do this
>> while the user is logged in; you have to use the credentials of an current
>> administrator to do so, of course, but once you've done this they can do
>> anything they want
Thanks everyone for all your replies. We've made a To Do List and the
first item is backup his whole drive - I will buy him an external on
Thursday.
So we will be implementing many of your excellent suggestions, just
not today :@D
We did ask the other two guys what kind of RAM they have o
On Mar 8, 2011, at 4:38 AM, Jonathan Smith wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a 17" powerbook G4 1.5 with the MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-825
> superdrive.
>
> I am not a frequent burner of dvd/cd's. But I am used to more modern
> drive which don't fuss over what type of media you use.
>
> According to it's specs,
At 4:38 AM -0800 3/8/2011, Jonathan Smith wrote:
17" powerbook G4 1.5 with the MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-825 superdrive.
I have had it reading from cd's and dvd's, I have yet to burn from it
though. But it will not recognise a particular dual layer dvd+ I have
burned. It just spits it out. It also spits
At 4:26 PM -0700 3/7/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Mar 7, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Dan wrote:
>> Now I'm trying to figure out how to make him administrator so he
has access.
Still not a good idea.
He needs to logout. Then you login to an administrator account,
open System
Preferences, Accoun
Hi
I have a 17" powerbook G4 1.5 with the MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-825
superdrive.
I am not a frequent burner of dvd/cd's. But I am used to more modern
drive which don't fuss over what type of media you use.
According to it's specs, it reads dvd full stop and burns - and +.
I have had it reading from
> I have 3 high density 512mb chips... am I good to go?
Try before you buy is the best way. Or ask the seller to confirm
they’ll work in your specific model.
Actually, I thought all Macs needed low-density RAM -- it seems it
gives better performance or reliability -- but if you have those chips
a
On 8/3/11 03:37, "peterh...@cruzio.com" wrote:
>
>> I have 3 high density 512mb chips... am I good to go?
It's certainly low for the PC100/133 variety for early Sawtooth through
Quicksilvers but I'm not sure for the PC2700 varietyI always understood
that high density was slower and poor
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