how to recover data from bad hard drive Once a hard drive goes bad (cannot get into the computer), is there any hope of recovering any data from it? If so, how?view more 
G5 upgrade, help needed on a couple of things Hello, I have an iMac G5 1.8 model A1058 with 2gb of ram running Panther 10.3.9 and I want to upgrade to Leopard 10.5.8 I have been told I cannot buy this software from Apple anymore so I looked on ebay inste...view more 
Resetting all settings to Default (factory) settings My lil one got a strong hold of my computer and changed a bunch of settings.. I'm seeing a black bar over all the things that i have selected as well as a voice describing EVERYTHING!! I want to reset my compu...view more 
Imac G5 cpu sensor temperature problem Hello all. My daughter has a 2005 Imac G5 2.0 GHZ (ambient light sensor) with 1.5 GB of ram running 10.5.8. Recently it has been shutting down, well going to sleep on her as well as shutting down quite frequentl...view more 
NTFS and MAC I have a WD Elements external multimedia drive formated for windows. Mac can not write on the drive. I have downloaded many recommended tools (NTFS-3G, MacFuse,NTFS mount) to do the NTFS system writab...view more 
iMac G5 won't startup Hi All, I've been using this machine without issue for years and years. I had a problem with a file not being able to be saved, so I decided to restart. That's where the trouble started. It wouldn't get past t...view more 
ddr2-pc4200 800Mhz on my iMac G5 late 2005 I'd like to know is a ddr2 pc-4200 800Mhz will run on my iMac G5 late 2005 with the same one BUT 533Mhz?view more 
My monitor is pixilated and pink! What happened? The display on My IMac G5 running 10.5.8 is pink and the images are ghostlike! My screen saver is neon green! Is my Mac dying? It has done this before and after I was doing my work for a few hours, it come...view more 
Is there a way I can backup my entire iMac G5 to a usb drive(except system files) I Have an old imac G5 running 10.4.11 ppc, and I want to get rid of it, but I want to backup everything except system files and crap I don't need. I want to beck it up onto a sub driveview more 
iMac G3 Rev A Faulty Ram? Hello, I have an iMac G3 Rev A that will refuse to boot up when the ram is upgraded. The specs are: 233Mhz G3 32 GB hard drive with OS X 10.3 96 MB of Ram (1 32MB and 1 64MB) The machine will boot and...view more 
I have Mac OS x10.4 and want to boot up 10.5.5 on sub drive how do I do this? I Have a power pc iMac running 10.4.2. wont upgrade and has no Intel processo. But I still want to boot up using 10.5.5 from a sub drive. is this possible, and if so how do i do that's?view more 
G5 PPC & New Yahoo! Mail - Impossibly Slow I have a 20" G5 PPC iSight iMac, 2.1 GHz with 2.5 gb of RAM. I'm running 10.4.11. The machine seems to be in good health, Disk Utility shows no problems, plenty of space on the HD and so on. In the last year o...view more 
iMac G3 wont turn on just wondering if anyone could help me out when i plug in my imac i hear a noise like an electrical noise and the power button led flashes for less than a second and when i try to turn the imac on it makes the same no...view more Running a PPC off a USB Hi I have gotten my hands on an old PPC. When I boot it I get an folder with a question mark and one with a square face divided in half flashing on the monitor. I just want to use the Mac as a display for my shop so ...view more 
iMac G3 Hard Drive Issues Hello, I know that this product is likely way out of support, but I still have questions. I have a summer 2001 iMac G3 (600MHz, 10.4.11) in a small collection, and when I use it, it runs pretty slow. It takes a ...view more 
iMac G5 shuts off randomly Hey guys, My iMac G5 is shutting down after an average time of 5 minutes. Sometimes it won't even startup, and sometimes I can work with it for an half an hour or even more. I thought I had solved the problem by cle...view more 
Summer 2000 iMac Memory Specs I got an Summer 2000 Indigo iMac with 512MBs. I plan to upgrade the memory to 1GB which should be the maximum. According to Mactracker, it says I need 2 PC100 desktop SDRAM moduels. Is this correct? And does it matter...view more iMac G3 DV Indigo Summer 2000 Speakers On my iMac G3, the right speaker makes a cracklings noise when played loud enough. I think this has to do with some foam. I'm debating on replacing them or not. If I want to disassemble the machine, do I remove 2 scre...view more Apple remote working with iMac My Apple remote recently only controls volume while I am watching DVDs or streaming on my iMac. I have the latest updates on my iMac. It seems all questions/answers relating to remotes applies to Apple TV....view more iMac G3 Bezel So I bought an iMac G3 and USPS absolutely mangled it during shipping. The whole front bezel needs to be replaced, and there is a very large crack behind the transparent plastic piece on the front of the machine. Is t...view more 