please excuse me for my ignorance but, what is region free good for anyways? Sorry to ask this but if you could please tell me I'd be very grateful. NOT EVEN KRYPRONITE WILL KILL …

Well a lot of people like to be able to play DVDs from regions all over the world for different reasons. Myself I find Region 1 DVDs can be bought cheaper and have more extras tha…

This is not about macs but does anyone know how to do this with the playsation. I have a couple of games from europe that I would really like to play on my american playstation. I…

I just checked the Apple System Profiler in my G4/400 (AGP) and is says I have a Hitachi GD-3000 in my machine. What is the proper update for this one? I could not find it listed o…

I have tried searching the site for the file, but I could't find it for download anymore . Could someone please send me or link the file if its not too big? Thanks

Four years late. man. This is back for the original G4s, almost certainly on OS9. You might want to look around for newer stuff.

here's a link: http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.ph...&manufactor=18 -r.

i have a Powerbook G4 1.33ghz (revision c) with combo drive. i watch alot of chinese movies, and would like to have region free dvd drive. which link one should i download? my dri…

Quote: Originally posted by Lancer409: my drive shows up as MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8123 that particular drive is not on the matshita combo drive list yet, but you sho…

Quote: Originally posted by Lancer409: in system finder. i dont know beans about macs or firmware yet, as i'm a new mac user. any info would be very much appreciated! T…

if you follow the instructions included with the firmware, nothing will go wrong. i've flashed a bunch of drives numerous times and never had a problem. -r.

Quote: Originally posted by rjenkinson: if you follow the instructions included with the firmware, nothing will go wrong. i've flashed a bunch of drives numerous times a…

hopefully if you guys know when it comes out for rev C 12inchers (combo drive) please forward a message to me =) .. i dunno how to subscribe to a thread so every time i check user …

Okay, This is for all you guru's out there: I just bought a toshiba 2.5" 9.5mm 12.1GB Hard Drive. Brand new. Since no one in the area will install it into my iBook, I mustured u…

It sounds like the new hard drive is either set the same way as the CD drive (both Master, or both Slave), or more likely that the new HD is set to Single. Check the 12GB HD docum…

Reader50's probably hit the nail on the head there (my 12gig Toshiba worked first time), but also do a PRAM reset as some drive info is stored in the PRAM. BTW. How long did it ta…

In my luck the problem may be worse than I thought. I thought I could boot from teh original 3.2GB drive, but I can't. WhenI try to do this, I geta system folder with a ? When I in…

I still don't know how to reset the PRAM (I can't use mac help as I cannot boot my machine properly). Could someone please tell me how to do this? Also, I checked the drive, there…

When you start up, hold down option, the command key (open apple) the p key and the r key. That should do it. Cheers! Chris

Don't worry about what the CD is set to. If setting the Toshiba HD to Master does not do it, set the Toshiba to Slave and try again. When I added my new faster HD (to a G4, not an…

I tried zapping the pram, that didn't work. I don't have any jumpers for the drive, so I cannot set it to slave. I am still having the exact same problem. I can only boot from C…

Quote: "I don't have any jumpers for the drive, so I cannot set it to slave." I am not clear on this... Do you mean you could not find a place on the drive with pins for setting j…

I meant that I don't have any jumpers. I don't know that setting the drive to slave would do anything though. The 3.2GB drive wasn't set to slave and it worked just fine before I …

Twice in the lifetime of my iBook the dreaded Flashing system folder icon has come up for no apparent reason. Both times, by booting from CD and running Disk First Aid I was able …

this might be edifying: http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/Foru...ML/000379.html not sure why the post just before this one mentions the flasher, but the above post is in regard to …