Re: Unable to eject/insert CD

Thanks Kyle, have tried 51008 & 106752, still no effect Thanks Bob for your offer, I am certainly concidering your offer , I've a few more ideas to try out from others, and it is a Imac G5, 20" screen, 1.8ghz. bought 29 Oct 2004...been a perfect machine other than this ! I'm thinkin

G3 No Power

Hi List You are my last hope barring mac doctor, I shut down my old work horse a G3 Beige Desk Top for a week turning the power off at the power point as well, when I turned it back on it does not respond as if it does not have power to it. I have changed pram battery and reset cuda but th

Re: Unable to eject/insert CD

Hi Bill Just quickly make sure you've tried everything written here And if you have tried everything written here move onto this is Try this more than once if it doesn't work the first

Re: Unable to eject/insert CD

Hi Bill > 2. getting rid of the Menu bar "eject "icon This is easy to accomplish Just hold down the command key and drag it out of the menu bar > 1. rectifying the CD problem. I know there's a bunch of terminal commands That you can do to eject the CD As I am not sure how to do this I will h

Re: Double finder

On 03/05/2008, at 10:23 AM, Lloyd White wrote: A friend of mine allowed his 2 yr old grandson to bash on the keyboard, turning on various applications, which he turned off. But since then the finder has every menu item doubled. Eg Shut down, or Sleep appear twice. He has re-booted but

Fwd: Unable to eject/insert CD

Thanks Reg / James /Kyle for your input, I had tried each of them with no results ( I also tried each one again just before I sent this message,just to be on the safe side, still no result, I don't think I am game enough to try poking a screwdriver in there ( I usually end up causing more p

Re: New iMac Advice

In the real world, having as much RAM as you can put in the computer does make a difference unless you only have one or two programs open (or especially if you have multiple users logged in). If you usually have half a dozen like I/we do, with limited RAM, you will end up with some memory pagin

Double finder

A friend of mine allowed his 2 yr old grandson to bash on the keyboard, turning on various applications, which he turned off. But since then the finder has every menu item doubled. Eg Shut down, or Sleep appear twice. He has re-booted but still the strange items appear. One of each set work., Eg

Re: New iMac Advice

Also performance difference between 2Gb and 4Gb of RAM was very marginal. Thanks Rob for this info. It's interesting reading. Did they ever resolve why the Halo gaming scores were so low? I don't game but know others who do and these results are significantly lower than the previous (to t

Re: Mighty Mouse

Hi Rosie, After using rechargeable batteries of all sizes for well over 25 years now, I have experienced only 1, yes! 1 single battery with a slight corrosion of the casing and no serious leaking. That's not something I can say about the non-rechargeable ones. But battery technology has progress

Re: New iMac Advice

Hi Reg I believe in the end they claimed the ATI Radeon graphics card Wasn't up to scratch Kyle On 5/2/08, Reg Whitely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Rob for this info. It's interesting reading. Did they ever resolve > why the Halo gaming scores were so low? I don't game but know others who

[4Sale] Crazy Offer time,....

Hi All Still got a few machines to sell,..so thought I would try the following,.. If you're interested in any of the following,..email me an offer,.. And I'll look at it and consider it. I've got some more trade-in's in the works so want to move these out to make room. :o) So go on,...have a look,

Re: New iMac Advice

Thanks Rob for this info. It's interesting reading. Did they ever resolve why the Halo gaming scores were so low? I don't game but know others who do and these results are significantly lower than the previous (to the last model) iMac performance, across the board. E.g. 32 fps v 126 fps.

Re: Virus?

Also to note is that when Windows machines are infected by certain SPAM bots they harvest the infected machine's address book and will not just send to people in the address book but also fake the "from" address using addresses in the address book. Some of the more sophisticated ones also harve

Re: Virus?

Hi Chris What's the reason you are given in the e-mail you receive letting you know that your e-mail could not be delivered. Messages can get returned for various reasons such as No such Address Mail box full Attachment to large and much much more Most of the time the answer is given in their e

Re: Virus?

I have been getting a whole heap of undeliverable mail warnings. Do I have a virus and if so, how do i get rid of it?? Any ideas??? regards Chris Griffiths -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines -

Re: Any rumours on the next Cinema Display

Any ideas when they will appear? My old cinema display needs updating but I'm holding out. Regards Chris Griffiths -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines -

Re: New iMac Advice

On 29/04/2008, at 6:34 PM, Reg Whitely wrote: Dear WAMUGgers If I was *tempted* to buy a new iMac 24" 3.06GB at Apple Ed price of $2787, would it be good value to upsize to 4GHz RAM instead of 2GHz (2 x 2 GHz v 2 x 1GHz) for an extra $269.50, and to upsize the HDD from its 500GB to 750G