iMac Question

2012-01-31 Thread Bill Brown
Greetings Group. Have a question or two for you gurus: Basics: iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM. Question: I read somewhere on one of these groups that the Macs perform some type of automatic system routine early in the morning, like around 3 AM. Can someone enlighten me as to where I

Re: iMac Question

2012-01-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 31, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Bill Brown wrote: Greetings Group. Have a question or two for you gurus: Basics: iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM. Question: I read somewhere on one of these groups that the Macs perform some type of automatic system routine early in the

Re: Another G3 Imac Question

2009-08-26 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
Jasiu wrote: Another question. How do I get the hard drive out. I already have the CD out but cant figure out how to get the HD out. Ok one more question. How do you get the daughtercard out? Here you go, this is from http://www.macworld.com/article/2496/2001/10/howtoimac.html : 4:

Re: Another G3 Imac Question

2009-08-26 Thread Jasiu
Another question. How do I get the hard drive out. I already have the CD out but cant figure out how to get the HD out. Ok one more question. How do you get the daughtercard out? On Aug 22, 11:22 am, Jasiu johnschiavone...@gmail.com wrote: I have a 233MHZ G3 Imac running OS 9.2.  I wanted

Re: Another G3 Imac Question

2009-08-26 Thread coccorp
-Original Message- Another question. How do I get the hard drive out. I already have the CD out but cant figure out how to get the HD out. Ok one more question. How do you get the daughtercard out? I'm sure someone can send you instructions before I get home this evening and

Re: Another G3 Imac Question

2009-08-24 Thread Po-en Tsai
I have a spare IDE hard drive here! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at

Re: Another G3 Imac Question

2009-08-23 Thread Mario Frasca
Jasiu wrote: I have a 233MHZ G3 Imac running OS 9.2. I wanted to put OS X on it but my OS X disc is a DVD. I don't think this Imac will acknowledge a new DVD player. Can I get OS X on CD? Can I download it from the internet somewhere? and you are sure you don't want to run Debian?

Re: Another G3 Imac Question

2009-08-23 Thread Cyrus Griffin
On PPC computers, you can't boot from a USB drive. Since it doesn't have FireWire, I don't think you can boot from an external drive. You can boot from an internal DVD drive, though, and the connector is the same standard one that's used on most other compact drives in laptops and such.

Another G3 Imac Question

2009-08-22 Thread Jasiu
I have a 233MHZ G3 Imac running OS 9.2. I wanted to put OS X on it but my OS X disc is a DVD. I don't think this Imac will acknowledge a new DVD player. Can I get OS X on CD? Can I download it from the internet somewhere? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: Another G3 Imac Question

2009-08-22 Thread Cyrus Griffin
It should read DVD's, at one point I put a slot-loading DVD drive in it from my 2004 iBook; it looked strange, but it worked fine, I'm pretty sure this is how I installed 10.4 onto it. (From the DVD) (Using Xpost Facto, that is) 10.0 through 10.2 were only released on CD, 10.3 was released