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I was able to get my hands on an old g4 and im trying to get the thing to boot but am having some issues. It did not come with a harddrive, or a power supply. i picked up a matching power supply pulled from another g4 off ebay (model api1pc12), and a new pram battery. i currently don't have a...

I installed MacDrive on a windows machine, and hooked up my mac formatted harddrive to transfer over some files. During the transfer, the power cable to the harddrive got disconnected. When I tried plugging it back into the Mac, it would only show up in disk utility, but i could not repair or...

I recently acquired a dual processor 1ghz powermac g4 quicksilver with what seems to be 512mb ram, and an upgraded 200gb harddrive. I had to buy a new power cord from radio shack because it didn't come with one but when I turn it on, i see a glowing white light behind the power button that fades...

new pram battery came, nothing new happened. any new suggestions?

i tried command option p r before i posted and it produced nothing. i guess the question im having is - does the pram power the motherboard or logic board? how do i know if either of the three are dead? (aside from taking the 3.6v lion bat to radioshack) thanks

Hey guys, I searched google for this and came across a relevant article and I believe the solution might be to get a new pram battery (suggested radioshack), but I'd like to get some second thoughts. I recently acquired a dual processor 1ghz powermac g4 quicksilver with what seems to be...

ha! for some reason the only notification for replies i got was this last one by conventionalear but i read your post xero, and it worked! thanks so much. i too had never seen a rebuild of a mailbox. odd. little 1 is gone...yay

im running leopard and its showing 1 draft that never got sent (that i wrote when i was on tiger). whenever i hit delete on the message, it turns grey but doesnt actually remove itself and i still have the little 1 badge to the right of the draft mailbox on the left. i went into my...

I'm having a problem both in textedit and in word. ive researched this problem and found out that my Normal template could be corrupt and i should trash it, however, when i do, and i relaunch word, its supposed to recreate a normal template which it doesnt - it simply freezes on the splash...

so ive been waiting years for this computer to come out, and finally the santa rosa mbp came out with pretty much all the specs ive been hoping for, except for the much-hyped flash booting. im about to begin my 2nd year at usc architecture school and i need to start bringing my computer in to...

well im an architecture student and i dont technically need a computer till next year but people bring in their macbooks all the time to studio and i seehow convenient it is so id like to get one relatively soon. i can wait till next semester however, if it means 2.66ghz and 1ghz bus...

would you recommend waiting until then or getting one now? do you think theyll change anything else on the computer or just the bus

i was waiting for the mbp to go core 2 duo before i bought one. currently i own the original 17" imac core duo dual 1.83. i read somewhere that in january apple should be releasing the core2duo mbp on a new motherboard or something..called santa fe? i could be mistaken...anyway, is it worth it...