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My friend just did the switch from PC to MAC (yes a convert) and we have a problem, all of the files he needs are on his PC. But the PC is dead. Burned up the mother board. If we take the hard drive out of the PC and put it in the MAC will we be able to read it, or wil OSX just try to erase it...

I want to replace the AGP rage pro video card in my 400mhz G4 sawtooth. I want to put a radeon card in. I went to the store and they had several radeon cards for PC's and a couple for mac, but the price difference was huge. Do I have to use the ones that say for mac, or are they all the same...

A friend of mine has a GeForce4 MX in his Mac that he wants to sell me. He is putting a Ti card in it's place. The question is, how much is the GeForce4 worth? We can't find any pricing for the card alone on the web, and Apple only sells it as part of a system. I want to be fair in the price...

I have noticed that after I start my MAC each day there is a period of high disk activity after I get to the desktop. For about 30 seconds after the desktop appears I can hear the HD churning away, and trying to do anything with the compter in that time is very slow. Once the HD stops its...

I have a problem with Drag Thing 4.3. Every time I restart the computer DragThing loses my registration data. I re-enter the numbers and it runs fine. In fact I can quit and reopen DragThing all I want, as long as I don't restart the computer. If I shut down my MAC and then start it up again...

All of the machines are linked by a Linksys Router and share a cable modem. All of the machines see the internet thru the router. My sons machine is also used as a gaming host on GameRanger, and several ports on the router have been opened and forwarded to his machine to allow the hosting.

I have a three machine network in my home. My G4 tower runs OSX, My wife's iMac runs 9.2.2, and my kids G3 runs 9.1. For various reasons I am keeping the machines running 9.x that way and can not upgrade them to X at this time. So here is the real question. I currently network the three...

I ran the Tweak check on DSLreports.com to see how my connection is. I am a Cable modem user. My Router is set to 1500 MTU size, I checked in the Terminal and OSX is also set to 1500 MTU size. Yet DSL reports says my MTU is showing up at 1488. I rebooted in OS 9 and ran the same tweak check...