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  1. sinclair_tm

    constaint panic

    well, i'm up and running again, and still not sure what happened. i pulled my 2 pci cards one by one restarting, and panics from tiger dvd. then i pulled my new 512mb ram stick, and reboot only to be welcomed by the installer. happy joy. so i add the pci cards one by one, and still good...
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    constaint panic

    this evening i turned on my mac, after it got to the desktop, i started launching my apps, and then it froze. i hit the restart button and it rebooted, but locked up before getting to the gui. it paniced. i took a pic of the screen. so after unplugging all extra usb/firewire devices, the...
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    USB 2.0 PCI Card - G4 won't wake from sleep

    you have found one of the quirks of the g4s and sleep. almost any change from stock, and they don't sleep. the truth is, the only way to allow it to sleep is to never have this card in. so you have to choose either sleep, or usb2 ports.
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    iPod Won't Mount

    i'd also use itunes to reset the ipod to factory defaults just incase the ipod os is bad.
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    What Mac do you have?

    i've had a native g4 for only just over a year now. at my rate of upgrade, it'll be another 5-6yrs before i can get my hands on a g5, let alone an intel mac.
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    Need a New Mouse

    my buddies love their logitech g5 mice (on their pcs), and i love my basic ms optical wheel mouse on my mac. as long as you stick with a big name, and make sure that the box of the mouse states os x compatibility, you should be alright.
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    iPod Won't Mount

    what version of itunes do you have?
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    Missing Monitor Settings, Display Resolution

    are there any switches on the adaptor that may of gotten changed? also, there should be the option to show all settings, and only recommended. goto all settings, and pick the 1024x768 at 60hz.
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    Bootable System 7 Disk from USB Floppy Drive?

    disconnect the intrenal floppy on the g3 and try it again. or try using disk utility with os x on the g5. besides, if i remember right, they are not true floppy images, they are a cd broken up into small chucks, that may fit on a floppy, so that it was easyer to download over a slow...
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    how to reformat a partition without damaging other partitions

    really? i've never had any issue. you selected the partition in disk untility, then clicked on the erase tab, and told it what kind of format, then click erase? what did it do then?
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    CD-r for a Powermac 9600

    don't know about the software, but you can get a pci usb/firewire card for the 9600, it has 6 pci slots. i'd try macsales.com for mac compatible cards. then you'd be able transfer documnets alittle better.
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    os 9 wont boot, how to switch back to os x

    hold down the x key to have it boot into os x. it could be that the mac doesn't have a bootable os 9 install, but only an os 9 install for the classic envrioment for os x.
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    A warning about eMacs

    dude, why did you drag this old thread up? plz look at the date before posting. ifs it hasn'r been posted in for the last couple months, leave it alone. unless it relates to a problem you are having.
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    How Old are You?

    ouch 29here
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    Sky TV on my Macintosh

    well, the red/white rcas are the audio, and can be plugged into the breakout cable. now, is that s-video next to the tv scart? its too little for me to tell. if so, that that goes to the breakout cable as well. if not, then if that is an antenna out port to the left of the red/white rcas...
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    attachments not working

    as i was trying to post a bug on the vip ad coving things, i wanted to attach a screen shot, but the forums would not seem to upload, and in fact the forum seemed to lock up, making all the buttons at the top of the reply box not work until i reloaded the page. using latest safari on 10.4.8.
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    vip add in the way

    ok, check this out. as you can see, that stupid vip ad is over the site navigation, and makes it so i can't click on the links to navigate in the forums. and it makes it hard to read. it needs to be moved up by a bit. using latest safari on 10.4.8.
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    Sky TV on my Macintosh

    it would help if you could either link to a site that lists all the output ports and/or interfaces on the skybox, or take a picture and post it. then i could give you links to the kinds of things you need. but if it has s-video, rca yellow-red-white, or antenna out, then it can be plugged into...
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    can't get to open firmware

    i'll have to find one. problem is that i'm an only mac user in a sea of pc guys. and the only one i know that i can get my hands on is in fact mine, but i gave it to my brother to use with the mac he got, and i almost never see him. i might just have to hunt one down at a surplus store or...
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    can't get to open firmware

    i did try before the gong, and it gave me a x'ed out folder until i let go, then it booted to my startup drive. i just wonder if this ms keyboard isn't sending all the keys at once. but then again, i have done the pram reset with it, i think.
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