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I recently initialized my hard drive and performed a clean install of Jaguar. I had installed it about six months ago but in the past month I was getting lots of strange problems (apps quitting on me, very slow system response times) so after backing things up I erased my hard drive, once via...

Thanks for the help. I've downloaded CroniX and I hope it does the trick. I'll post back in a few days to let you know...

I'm running X.2 and I'm trying to find a way of making the hard drive stop spinning. I would rather do this at night then put my computer to sleep, for various reasons. But it seems that no matter what I do, the hard drive spins down and then periodically spins up again every 20 minutes or so...

Well, it's no Mac 512K-E (my first Mac) but it'll have to do... (does it come with the optional external floppy drive? "Please insert the disk "System 6.0.1" to continue...")

I have a problem where my hard drive automatically spins down after a few minutes of inactivity, then starts spinning again after a few minutes, then stops again, and keeps repeating this pattern indefinitely. In my energy preferences i do not have the "spin down hard drive" option checked. I...

I've done the above procedure several times, in fact. I had 10.0 which was just awful on my iMac (see my sig. for the tech specs) and "uninstalled" it by doing the same things. 10.1 and, for the most part, 10.2 worked beautifully for several months after installing them long after I had...

Thanks a lot for the tips. I'm running 10.2.0 right now with a few problems (random logouts, some programs quit for no reason) but it's usable. The memory I've got is from Memoryx.com, but I don't know what brands. I tried swapping my two chips out to see if one of them is bad, but it...

The best one I've found so far is called DIVX Doctor II, but it only runs well in Classic mode. They might make one for OSX now, but the last time I tried it it sucked. I re-boot into Classic whenever I need to convert an AVI file. It's disappointing, really, that no good DIVX players are...

Well, I'm not sure what was causing it, but I've gone back to using regular ol' Jaguar-point-zero. As near as I can figure, I had some hardware conflicts with newer versions of Jaguar. Everything seems to be running fine now...

Does anyone know how to completely rid my Mac of OSX? In the past few days I've had applications quit randomly, freeze-ups occur when my screen saver is running, I've had my Mac logout spontaneously for no reason at all (seems to do it after printing, though. odd) and refuse to mount disk...

Yes, you can do that. Get out your Jaguar CDs and run the normal installer. You can choose a "Custom" install which will save your user settings intact, and even save your entire old System intact in a folder called "Previous Systems." It will reinstall Jaguar around your existing users and...

When I download anything that is a .dmg file, I can't open it afterwards. A few times recently I've downloaded files that were .dmg.sit files, and they decompress just fine but when I open the .dmg file It goes through the usual process (verifying...checksumming...mounting) but no disk ever...

I just rebuilt the database, but it didn't work. As far as I know I don't have any system modifications, but a few days ago I deleted some of the caches in system/library/caches. I have problems with programs quitting unexpectedly, and someone on this site suggested I try that.

10.2.2 is out...but I can't use it. I ran Software Update and it downloads the whole package, but when it finishes I get a message saying there was an error and it cannot install anything. So I downloaded the disk image from Apple.com, but it won't mount. The .bin file extracts into a .dmg...

Well, I think I now know one thing that was causing the crashes. If I print anything, I have about five minutes or so until I get that logout problem. I ran things fine yesterday (not running limewire) and it wasn't until I printed a document that it crashed. I tried it again--same results...