Recent content by mwwhonda

550mhz ti powerbook the dvd-rom drive has failed. i want to upgrade to a "combo drive" i can perform the swap myself, but need help locating the right drive at the right price. i refuse to pay top dollar for a drive from OWC and the like knowing that i can get the same drive on ebay most...

dual 1.8ghz g5 upgraded to 10.3.9 and now classic won't fully load. it gets to the last 1/4" of the loading bar and just hangs. did the good ole' repair disk permissions a few times and reinstalled classic, same deal. any suggestions?

i will take a close look at some of those options at work in the AM. i do remember attempting several of these suggestions on the last machine that bombed and nothing seemed to work. any other suggestions?

a cllient here at work ran software update last night. they began the installation of 10.3.5 before heading home for the evening. when they returned this morning the machine was locked up, they did a hard reset (push the reset button) and the machine began to fire up. it goes through the...

i have run fsck after booting into single user mode, norton disk utility and disk utility from the cds. norton found numerous errors and so did disk utility but they all seem to be cleared up. i will try the reboot command in conjuction with sudo as the reboot command alone prompted the same...

the machine is a dual G4 500Mhz machine w/ 1GB of ram. it has both os 9 and os x loaded. this machine does not belong to myself, it is a client here at work. no one here really has any formal apple education or really knows their way around the machines. i am a novice user and am the only...

thanks for the help, keep it coming though, i am not able to get mac3dec to work...maybe its because i do not have a g4?

i am looking for a program to rip the audio track from a dvd that i have to say mp3 format. i would like to be able to burn the mp3's to a cd so i can listen to the audio in my car. im sorry if i have posted in the wrong forum, this is my first post and i dont even know where to begin! any...