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I have a PPC MAC G5 desktop and recently broke down and installed Leopard 10.5.2 and installed all the upgrades to 10.5.6. I especially liked how all my photo jpeg icons and quicktime movies would instantly reappear with a photo of itself or the first frame of the movie. Now though, all the...

Please forgive a stupid question, but which would be slower....PC3200U-30330 or PC3200U-30440??? And with such a small incremement in speed differentiation, would it even be noticeable, except in a heavy graphics environment like a game? Because I swear that I have noticed a slow down in...

I have a Power Mac G5 1.8ghz. running TIger. I recently purchased two 1gig. memory sticks; DDR SDRAM PC3200U-30440. I already have two 512mb. and four 128mb memory sticks; DDR SDRAM PC3200U-30330. Is the slower 1gig. memory sticks going to cause a kernel panic attack down the road? Everything...

Iomega no longer supports the JAZZ drive I have and I am not sure how to find out who manufactured the Ultra Wide SCSI card I have....

:confused: I have a Blue and White G3, which I loved, that ran perfectly for years. I had two internal drives, both about 6gigs each, one was the default internal drive and the other was hooked up to the Ultra wide SCSI card from which I also ran my Iomega external JAZZ drive. Everything was...

I had a similar situation with an external drive, a Seagate 300gb firewire drive. I had it partitioned into three drives and wanted to resize it into two drives. After a frustrating week of looking into it, I ended up copying everything onto my internal drives and reformatting the Seagate into...

Do you have everything hooked up to a good power strip to guard against electrical spikes and fluctuations? A spike could damage both drives if they are hooked up together or plugged into the same wall outlet. Also, how old are they? If you purchased them together, it just might be that the...

I apologize, my Mac is a tower.

Had you performed any upgrades prior to your two drives disappearing? Or install anything onto your Mac?

Hello everyone! I got guided to this forum by the gentleman who sold my his G5. I was wondeering if the backside cache is upgradable and if so, would it be of any benefit? I ran Techtool Pro's test on cache and it did not list any L3 cache! Does this mean that that socket is empty of a memory...