upgrading

Hey, I know this is going to sound like heresy, but I have a G4 800 mhz, 40 GB hard drive, with a CD drive running Mac OSX 10.3.9 I also have a selection of PC's that I no longer use that have various size ATA hard drives as well as DVD units. It seems, from what I read, that I could...

I'm looking for someome out there who may have done this. I want to install the FireWire 800 PCI card in my 533 MHz G4. Is this product compatible with my system and what "external storage" device and cable do you recommend? Thanks, http://www.mac-pro.com/s.nl/sc.2/cat...it.A/id.463/.f

I am going to upgrade my Powerbook hard drive to get a little more space. I have seen the guide on www.ifixit.com and Im sure I could do it but the prices they charge are way too high. I was looking at this SAMSUNG Spinpoint on Newegg...

hey guys apologies from the off for my mac ignorance. my girlfriend has an iBook G3 (700 mhz cpu if that makes a difference). she was having probs with her CD drive so I bought a dvd/cdrw combi drive off ebay (drive is matsushito, i think). I used the pbfixit guide to haul the old drive...

The current video card in my older G4 is an ATI Rage Pro 128 w/16 mg video RAM. It will not support larger (19-21") displays, I am told, and I tried powering up a current model Apple Cinema Display 20" and it failed. I am not a gamer, but simply want a larger display for viewing photos, MS...

After upgrading to 10.3.9...iTunes or Quicktime wont play my music files. I have tried to delete iTunes and reinstall...still wont work. Can anyone help me? David

I have a 1GHz powerbook G4 with a combo drive. Before I upgraded to Tiger I could burn CDs no problem. Now, CD-Rs from the very same batch as I used before don't get recognized on the desktop. Important facts before you reply: 1. YES, I have checked that the preferences are properly...

HI - recently upgraded my G4 400 tower to Tiger, after a few initial hassles all sorted - only continuing problem is that my Harman Kardon soundsticks no longer work. Google searched this problem and saw a few others had the same problem but as yet no one has a solution any ideas of how to fix...

I'm a graphic designer with a fairly substantial collection of fonts. These fonts are vital to my ability to design and produce the publications I am so proud of. But I had some nightmare issues with my fonts when upgrading Mac OS X –*until I learned the trick described below. At this point...

What's the best way to move my data on my Handspring Visor Platinum to a Treo 650/Sprint? For my Visor I use Mac OSX v10.4.2 with Palm Desktop v4.1 and HotSynch Manager v3.1 . I also use a MemoryModule backup with an SD card. I am probably one of the few that use a Sprint cellphone module...

Help? All I get is grey screen with 'don't do anything i'm thinking' icon (circle with slash through it) and the sun wheel thing - this just goes and goes and goes... I tried to revert to panther - starting up of Panther install disk, and just got the same grey screen

Hey guys, I have one of the original Bondi Blue Imac's bought it brand new in 98 passed it along to my mom for the last 2.5 years and I just got it back and would love to upgrade everything and anything on it. I wanna know what my options are I have been out of the Mac loop for toooooooooo...

I would like to know how to upgrade two computers to be able to load OSX. The first system is Beige G3 desktop that does not load OS X - it now has OS 9.2. I have tried x post facto and do not know if I placed it in the correct place on the computer but I still could not load OSX. The 8500 has...

Hi, just a quick question, probably simple: I am currently running tiger with 512mb ram, if I buy a 1Gb stick, will there be any problems as there are to different sizes in the slots?

I have a 15" PB running 10.2.8. I also have 250GB external lacie hard drive with a couple of bootable partitions. I have successfully tested my backups by booting off of the external partitions. Can I test out an upgrade by booting to a mirror on my external hard drive and simply upgrade...

I am running out of hard drive space, since I do alot of illustrations and starting to do video work, and want to install a second drive in my computer. I have a 1GHz PowerMac G4 FW800 tower. In the manual it says I can install an Ultra ATA/100, Ultra ATA/66 or Ultra ATA device. I am looking...

Hi I,ve just upgraded to Tiger and ended up with big problems, couldn,t calibrate printer, safari quit when reading pdf,s usb stuff went intermittent. so reloaded software using archive but still had the same problem updated adobe stuff which also crashed and caused other problems. Decided to...

I have been put in charge of upgrading two old G3's - one iMac 350 MHz with a 6GB hard drive, 256MB RAM, running OS 10.2.8 -one Blue and While G3 350 MHz with a 12GB HD, 320 MB RAM, running OS 10.2.8 I want to put a 512 MB RAM chip and a new 80 GB hard drive in the iMac. For the B&W, I...

I just installed OS X 10.3 panther on my power mac G4. I still have OS 9 also. I haven't been able to import my address book from Netscape 7 on my OS 9. I exported and saved it as LDIF as instructed, but when I try to select it to be imported on the OS X mail side, it is grayed out. I have to...

My friend wants to upgrade his Powerbook to Tiger, I have recommended he do a clean install just to make sure it's all hunky dory and to back up first. Apparently, the only thing he is concerned about are his virtual PC settings. He has quite a bit of Banking/Finance software that requires...