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My old G5, Dual 2.5GHz Power PC has been playing up of late, but a friend who owns a graphics company has a G5 Quad he's letting me have. Everything, applications, work, etc., is backed up on Time Machine so I'm hoping I can load everything from there onto the cleaned G5 and use it. How exactly...

I'd been having problems with bluetooth on my G5 dual processor running Leopard, so decided to reset the pram. I restarted the computer but it wouldn't turn off, just closed down all the applications, cleared the desktop then sat there. It wouldn't close down via the power button, so after 10...

I have a CD which won't come out of the cd drive on my Mac G5. I've tried all the tricks - restart holding mouse, eject via disc utility etc., but it seems to be physically stuck, the drive tries to open but won't. How would I remove it from inside the Mac - is it a lot of bother? Mac G5...

My son's iMac G5 suddenly went to a black screen on start up. I've been reading various posts about this, but in this case the power light goes off about 7-8 seconds after booting up, although I can feel the disc spinning if I hold the body of the Mac. Any ideas, please?

My son asked me to look at his friend's iMac G5 and it's in a bad way. When I boot up there are scan lines and coloured pixels everywhere, goes to a blue screen and get the restart message (the one in different languages). I've booted in safe mode and run repair permissions. In safe mode the...

I've just bought my 4 year old grandson an old iMac (for all of £6). It's running OS9. It's a 233mHz with only 96mb of ram. Would it run OS X.1, or would it need more memory?

My son has a fairly old G4 which suddenly wouldn't start up, it's completely dead. I imagine this is due to the power supply going, though if anyone has any other ideas please let me know. I have a G4 of a similar age which I've used for spares; would the power supply be compatible with the...

Went to print out on my Epson C62 and got the message 'Parts inside your printer are at the end of their service life. Contact your dealer for replacement.' Having Googled I find the ink pads need cleaning, but then you have to reset the print counter. To do this you use a utility which is for a...

My son's asked me to fix the CD drive on his G4 iMac. It very rarely opens when you press the 'eject' button. I'm wondering if it's just a build up of dust, so I was wondering if anyone's had experience of this, and how easy it is to access the drive.

I've just added some memory to my wife's G4 from an old G4 that's not used and then I thought I might as well give her the hard drive from it as well so she's got an extra 40gb of space. I understand how to do it but am a touch confused on the jumper settings. I've done a simple diagram...

My son recently installed Leopard on his G5 and this morning he emailed me this from work: 'When I go to update my software, MAC OS, it now asks you to restart before the install and then installs on reboot. However, when my machine boots up on the blue background screen there is a status...

I installed Leopard a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday it developed an annoying black rectangle which appears in various applications. For instance in Photoshop (CS3) it seems to take on the shape of the scrollbar then appears at random over the image. In entourage it will take the shape of the...

I recently installed Leopard and I'm now backing up and cleaning my Mac before starting time machine. My 'Previous Systems' folder says it contains 12.9gb, but within it is one folder, '2008-02-15_0307', which contains 1.3gb. In turn this contains 'Private' at 277mb and 'Users' at 8k. Where is...

One of my sons has asked me to go with him tomorrow night to look at a G5 iMac advertised in the local paper. We both know a fair bit about Macs but I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what to look for in a second hand Mac, any way of spotting problems, etc.

My son wants to buy a new DVD recorder and the one he wants is for USB 2. How does he find out if his iMac is USB 1 or 2?

I've had an external LaCie 80gb drive for about 3 years. This morning, since I made a copy of a folder on it, I've been unable to copy from it or within it. I can copy to it. I've rebooted, and run repair verifications, though only on my Mac HD as Disk Utility sees the external drive but won't...