Dodgy eMacs

2009-03-22 Thread Simon Royal
Hi As youu know. My 1.25Ghz eMac is up the shoot. It's my little boys so I need to replace it asap. I have read lots of forums about it and it seems to only affect the 1.25Ghz models. I've got two 800mhz eMacs which are fine and I had a 1Ghz ATI model from new which wasn't affected either.

Re: Dodgy eMacs

2009-03-22 Thread Brian Troisi
On Mar 21, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Simon Royal wrote: Hi As youu know. My 1.25Ghz eMac is up the shoot. It's my little boys so I need to replace it asap. I have read lots of forums about it and it seems to only affect the 1.25Ghz models. I've got two 800mhz eMacs which are fine and I

Running Imac without CD

2009-03-22 Thread Armand
Hi, I bought an Imac G3 8.6 (and the CD drive is out). I have both an Iomega drive USB and Firewire external disc drives. I want to use this to upload to the hard drive. I have the software for the Iomega, but says the software is not the correct one. I'd appreciate any advice. Thank you.

Re: eMac Checked Board

2009-03-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 21, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Simon Royal wrote: It is just one capacitor by the looks of it. You could try replacing the faulty cap. Worst case you kill the logic board, which is where you're at now... -- Bruce Johnson Wherever you go, there you are B. Banzai, PhD

Re: Running Imac without CD

2009-03-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 21, 2009, at 11:26 PM, Armand wrote: Hi, I bought an Imac G3 8.6 (and the CD drive is out). I have both an Iomega drive USB and Firewire external disc drives. I want to use this to upload to the hard drive. I have the software for the Iomega, but says the software is not the

Re: eMac Checked Board

2009-03-22 Thread ./aal
unfortunately I fear that cap wont be the only bad on, just the only one you can see those caps came in the 100,000's and there was a very bad year for caps that affected every computer mfg ie every dell optiplex260 had a bad mobo due to the caps that year I would not put any hope that one cap

Backup Filling

2009-03-22 Thread Wilton Shaw
Hello, I just installed TechTool Pro 5 on my eMac, which is using OS 10.5.6 I now get a message every minute telling me I only have 12% free space left on my backup disk. I looked up Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard for Dummies and it said if I want to get more space on my disc, I should