Re: My iMac quit working?

2010-02-28 Thread Michaelangelo
With any luck, you have the same problem I had shortly after buying a new (old) 333 slot load: there's a small battery inside that just flatout died. About $10 at Battery Plus (where you should bring the old battery to confirm it is in fact dead). Yoou will have to open the machines case and us

Re: trouble coming?

2009-08-30 Thread Michaelangelo
ve, and reinstall 10.4 > fresh. > > You probably won't have to go through this whole list, but it depends > on how deeply your system's problems are. If you have any questions, > or get stuck, feel free to ask, one of us here on the iMacs list can > help :) >

trouble coming?

2009-08-30 Thread michaelangelo
I have an imac Flowerpower bought used with OS 10.4.11 (no OS disks). Has worked great. About two weeks ago a couple of odd things started to happen: (1) Outlines of boxes started to appear and disappear on the screen, kind of like a ghost outline of something that was on the screen that had just

Re: G3 600MHz iMac, dead?

2009-08-30 Thread Michaelangelo
Could also just be the battery Fran wrote: > I wrote in about a week ago for this same computer... symptoms are: > computer does not start > no chime > no light > no HD noise > > The only sound is when you plug in the computer and push the on/off > button one can hear a small' bump' of power t

Re: retrieving my old website files

2009-02-27 Thread michaelangelo
Thanks a bunch for suggesting this. It worked great! On Feb 26, 3:05 pm, lg wrote: > A couple of years ago I used Web Devil for the same purpuse. It worked OK > then but if it works with Leopard I do'nt know. > Regards, > lg > > 2009/2/26 michaelangelo > >

retrieving my old website files

2009-02-26 Thread michaelangelo
I think there are shareware programs that will allow me to retrieve the entire content of my webset, or at least most of it, as an outsider (that is, as a vistor would). I have a gardening website that has been dormant since last year and I just learned from my ISP that they discontinued offering

flash drive and OS 9.2.2

2009-02-21 Thread michaelangelo
I'm back with the same problem but with a different flash drive (I gave up and returned the other one). This one is a PNY 4 GB, which claims to be compatible with OS 8 and higher. I am trying to set up the flash drive so I can move files back and forth between: My iMac g3 Dalmation, which has OS

A different mail questions

2009-02-19 Thread michaelangelo
I recently started using my new g-3 FlowerPower with OS 10.4, to which I loaded Thunderbird. (Previously I was using OS 9.2 with Entourage.) I don't really know the different between pop-mail and imap (or other types of email protocols, if they exist) but I think that is where I am having this pr

thumb drives (jump drives)

2009-02-01 Thread michaelangelo
I just got a 4 GB thumb drive (is this the same thing as a jump drive?). The package says it works with Mac OS 9.1.x+ and OS X. I got it to transport files between my trusty Dalmation and the "new" FlowerPower I just bought. The Dalmation has OS 9.2.2 on it and the Flower Power has 10.4 The thumb