Recent content by BrianL74

It's not the iMac. It's the G3 tower in the same blue/green case. And yes, it has one firewire port. This is the first of the G3 line that didn't have the beige box... But all of that is besie the point. The question is how to I get it to start up and recognize the install disk in the DVD drive.

I have a G3 (bondi blue) that curently has a completely blank hard disk. I have tried installing Tiger from an external LaCie Firewire DVD+/-R/RW drive with no luck. I have tried starting up holding down the C Key as well as trying the Option key. But neither has worked. I still get the...

I've tried all these things. When choosing Apple-N, I see only the 'Network' icon. It's not an issue of the icon being off the desktop or a loose connection. I am able to access the hard drive through any other means. I have put an alias on the desktop as a work around. Interestingly enough...

Thanks for the tip. However, this didn't work. What I have so far: 1. Repaired permissions 2. Re-set P-RAM 3. Repaired disk with disk utility using install DVD 4. Relaunched Finder using above instructions I can locate the hard disk in Spotlight but cannot drag it back to the...

I have lost my hard drive icon fromt he desktop of my iBook Mac OS 10.4.5 It shows in Disk Utility and Finder preferences have everything selected. Please help.!.!

After updating to 10.4.3, I restarted the eMac 1Ghz and everything was fine. The display went to sleep and after it came back to life, the whole monitor is half as bright as it should be. Almost like its still half asleep. I've had to turn brightness and contrast all the way just to be able...

After updating to 10.4.3, I restarted the eMac 1Ghz and everything was fine. The display went to sleep and after it came back to life, the whole monitor is half as bright as it should be. Almost like its still half asleep. I've had to turn brightness and contrast all the way just to be able...

On the old mail app..I had to use user authentication for my smpt servers.... On Mail 2.0, I have to set it to "No pass word" in the server settings... Sorry for the post.

Since installing Tiger, Mail will not send any emails from any server. I can receive them fine. I've checked and rechecked all of the server settings, but can't find the problem. My outgoing server is: smtp."website".com and of course, username and pass word. Incoming mail is simply...

Wow! You are AWESOME! Safari crashed everytime I loaded my own website. Thanks for your diligents! ::love::

I am selling my old Macintosh Performa 577 (includes printer, software, etc.) and an old Mac SE. Would like them to go to good home before I have to move in February to San Francisco. If nobody wants them, then they are going in a garage sale. Please let me know soon if you are...

I have a Ruby iMac DV G3 400Mhz and would like to upgrade it to a G4 and/or a faster processor speed. Does anyone know of an upgrade that is available or going to be sometime soon? I am aware of the upgrade cards for the older iMac models (Rev. A-D) already. Thanks for any help you can...

Every time I print from Appleworks, the print job is not sent to the printer. I am using 6.2.4...and sending to EPSON and HP inkjet printers. The print job is sent successfully to the laser printers without a problem. But, when I print to a USB inkjet, the progress bar starts, then doesn't...