Recent content by ShotgunSaint

Thanks for the help. I'm looking into it, although I'm also piecing together a new AMD machine, so mayhaps I won't need to make room for the penguin on my mac, lol. I'm still gonna look into it, in case my Ubuntu media arrives before it's assembled.

Hate to be the one to tell you this, but if your disk utilities won't help, I'd say you're gonna have to reformat. I'm not familiar with 10.1, but if you get an archive & install option from your OSX disk, try that first. It only overwrites the system files, so your other data should be left...

I've heard stories of people dual-booting their intel Macs with various Linux OS's... what would I need to do to dual-boot my core solo Mini with Ubuntu or SuSe? Also, would I need to back up my files first? I've never really worked with partitions on a Mac, so I don't know whether they can...

65 days... that's impressive. And yet all my Winfriends still think Macs are unstable. If I may ask, what's your secret, and what's that machine used for, primarily?

I did. Apparently, the audio board was bad. I don't know why they wouldn't have suspected this in the first place, but hey. All the work was free, and they even threw in a complimentary data backup.

Let's see... I haven't done much troubleshooting on it since I picked it up from repair. I updated the firmware right before it went into the shop though. I did know about the Garageband fix, but I haven't tried since I got it back. I'll try when I get home from work, along with updating...

Help! I have an Intel Mini Core Solo, and I'm having an ongoing sound issue. Basically, when it's been shut down or asleep for several hours and I boot it up, it works fine. However, after an hour or so, my external speakers go out (I've tried with my headphones and through my stereo, to no...

cool, thanks guys. my boss will be thrilled, and I don't have to kill any more elderly macs ;)

So, I work at a technology renewal and recycling company, and occasionally we get macs in. Being the resident mac genius (can you believe it? I don't really know that much...), my boss just came to me asking if we could boot a mac from the network. Basically we just want to network boot them...

Hrmm, point taken. This contradicts everything I've heard about partition magic from people I trust, but if it works, it works.

I had a similar problem on my Mac Mini... although I never had any work done on it. For some reason, about a week and a half ago, my external sound went out. After wrestling with Apple Care to ensure that it wasn't a software problem, they determined my logic board is faulty. So as of today...

I had this same problem with my WD hard drive. You're gonna have to reformat. I wouldn't use Partition Magic because it doesn't make physical partitions, only virtual ones. This is why you can't use Partition Magic to make a dual boot system on Windows. Hook your HDD up to the PC, and burn...

This doesn't get me anywhere except back to the desktop, albeit with my hard drive now listed *under* my desktop pictures folder. Do I have to enable something to make this work? I tried it three times.

I know I posted this in the Intel forum, but the problem is still plaguing me and I can't seem to find the information I need anywhere else. Basically what happened is while I was receiving security update 2006-001 my system locked toward the end of the installation, and I was forced to...

I'm still having problems keeping my devices connected... my usb drive mounts alright, but "falls off", where it's still mounted on the desktop and in finder, but won't respond and won't eject. however, the midi controller is still dropping out. i've tried switching the USB ports, and it just...