Sounds like it is a 'dead hd' given the circumstances you said. You could always try and take the drive out, and put it in an external enclosure to see if it is recognised on anoth…

Hi folks, Can anyone offer pointers to solving the following problem for a client? The machine is a G4 1.4GHz Mac Mini, and it was working fine when it left my hands. Its …

but I've been having some trouble formatting a CF card Click to expand... Some CF and USB memory sticks can only be used with FAT16 or FAT32. They omit the DOS partition table …

Interesting. Anyone know why a 1.2 GB partition fails to format in disk utility then?

Standard HFS can go to 2Gig.

Hey gang, How big can an HFS (aka Mac OS Standard) partition be? I always thought they could be huge, but I've been having some trouble formatting a CF card with Disk Utility in O…

It has to do with a bad install disc. Thankfully I use only backups so I don't scratch my originals. Click to expand... Thats a very good idea, I have a 9.0 disc here that I go…

That is awesome, click on something and you get an explosion before whatever you click on opens.

It has to do with a bad install disc. Thankfully I use only backups so I don't scratch my originals.

Now that is strange! Maybe a system extension that customizes the mouse pointer? Do share when you figure it out! Huxley

I've never seen it myself until now, but I've heard of it. The cursor turns into a little bomb icon. So weird. http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0324pe1.jpg

Looks like you're right... after reading the manual I'm inclined to agree it's a retrofit, in which case there's probably little chance of the original circuitry being in the box.

Doesn't look home-brew to me... my guess would be that they used the same back panel for both the SCSI version (as pictured) and the Smart Port version for the IIc. The IIc version…

Doesn't look home-brew to me... my guess would be that they used the same back panel for both the SCSI version (as pictured) and the Smart Port version for the IIc. The IIc version…

This QC10 on ebay appears to be an upgraded, retorfit floppy disk model. Anybody know if Quark sold them this way? with all the holes in the box it sure seems like a home-brew job…

In the hacks section of applefritter there is a guy who put an iMac into a 21" monitor. I had forgotten all about it untill this thread!

Fabulous. I have a mac display to VGA adapter sitting here as we speak. So I could use a standard display.

The only thing is, if you're using an old Apple display, the monitor must be a multisync monitor, ie: a Multiple Scan or AppleVision Display. If you're using a third party SVGA mo…

Ah, that would be my bad. You can hook one of the older Apple monitors up to that port I think, but don't quote me on that. Click to expand... Yes you can. The port is the old …

If it's spitting out factory-pressed DVDs (I'm taking your "all DVDs" literally), then your drive is likely toast. Dual-laser drives use an IR laser for CDs, and a red one for DVDs…

Just recently, my iBook G4 spits out all DVD's without even reading them. CD's work just fine, and it's a Combo drive, so why would it be doing this? If I put the exact same DVD in…

Lucky, you got the cool iMac where it was user serviceable. Click to expand... Yup, mine's the same revision model. I was a bit bummed to find out only weeks after I purchased…

Some simple stuff you can try... When you run the disk repair and verification stuff within disk utilities while booted off the OS X install media, does it catch and repair anythi…

Lucky, you got the cool iMac where it was user serviceable.

Complete specs: 1.8 Ghz PPC G5, 512 MB RAM, 80 gig HD. I've done nothing to it since buying it, except for the guy at the apple store who inserted the extra 256 stick of RAM. @ Qu…