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NEW EVENTS AS OF THIS WEEK:2 DAYS AGOTurn on my computer first thing in the a.m., and nothing happens. it stays black, as if it's never been turned on, but it starts blowing very loudly out the back vent. I force it down, turn it back on, and everything's fine for the rest of the day.Y...

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Hi,I wonder if you guys can help me with a problem im having.I don't want my screen to dim after a certain period of time if fact I would rather it never dim at all. I have been in the system>energy saving>options.automatically reduce brightness... and unchecked that but it still kee...

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I have always used 4x or 8x DVD media (eMac) and never had a single problem...as of yet...I have not had any issues burning with an 8x disk on my 17" isight iMac.I found a great $deal$ on a 100 pack of Memorex DVD-R 16x discs, however, I am a little worried about using 16x media in a drive desi...

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Hi there,After many years of walking in the wilderness as a lost soul, I decided to take the plunge and switch from PC to Mac and, apart from a few issues, I'm so glad I did. I'm now the proud owner of a shiny new (well, refurbished...) iMac.My main problem is that it won't alway...

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Hi one morning i turned on my comp but had to turn it off because applications froze. Force quit wuldnt work. then when i start up i hear the mac boot and see the screen turn on but when it gets to the second white screen with the revolving loading thing. It just stays there and the revolving t...

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I've played with settings and font smoothing but no love.I figured out how bad Macs are with fonts by plugging in a Windows PC to the same monitor and fonts are amazingly sharp!I think Apple has some catching up to do when it comes to fonts! Intel iMac Mac OS X (10.4.7)...

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Imac 400mhz ruby slot load dv with 512mb ram and a little over 4 gigs of hard drive space will not install 10.3.Firmware is updated to 4.1.9I've tried holding c and designating the startup disc with no success. On restart, it displays the ?file icon followed by several minutes of blank scr...

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My eMac wont read CD's or DVD's, its ejects them after a couple of minutes. Anyone with any ideas? I mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3) ...

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Since I bought my iMac G5 I had many problems (but I still love it).My Superdrive doesn't work anymore: in the begining I couldn't burn anymore and now I can't even read a CD and/or DVD.The problem is I have to repair my HD: I did a verify disk and it told me I have to repair it...

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Hello,Since i use my new iMac core 2 due, wich works perfectly, i do have one problem.It seems, that sometimes,almost every day i lose my connection with the airport base station. I just need to click my AP again and then it works again. Don;t know what this is, tried severel setting, but the p...

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I have an iMac 20" aluminum. Does anyone know why I keep getting a message that says " your networks are not available"? I have no networks that I am aware of. This happens everytime I wake the iMac, ever since I installed Leopard.Mo...

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I've talked to the customer service line about ten times regarding this problem and they don't know what to do. It seems that all the CDs that I have burned from my PC are not recognized by my iMac. It can see the product information regarding each individual CD but not the data. I ha...

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I getting a brand new mac mini from ebay and i am deciding between a 15-inch or a 14-inch LCD display. I was just wondering, if both of the displays have a resolution of 1024 x 768, is that the pixel count too? so does that mean the pixels on the 15-inch are just bigger or something? i need to...

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Hi,My iMac will be arriving today at my home and I'm trying to determine the best way to move files from my desktop PC to the iMac.Since the size of the files that I need to transfer are relatively small and I have a DVD burner on my PC, I was wondering if it would be easiest to just creat...

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Hi, Not so sure of the terminology, but here is what I am wondering. I just got a new iMac which came with Tiger installed, but the disks for Leopard. Before I install Leopard, I would like to do a full backup.I wonder if it is possible to maybe partition the HD on my old pre-Intel mini (512 RA...

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Have a 24inch refurb. Worked fine for a day. Now getting a white screen on startup. Machine makes the "chimes" sound at startup, but I never get the apple or spinning wheel. Have tried unplugging and holding shift on startup. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help. iMac Mac OS X (10.4.7)...

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Hi!With my new iMac, I try to share my internet connection but I want it to be encrypted so my neighbors can't use it! I am using a 128-bit WEP encryption with a 13-character ASCII key. However, my Windows PC can't seem to connect to the network, while it can when the network is unenc...

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Would be interested to hear thoughts from photography and design professionals who have purchased the new, specifically, 24" iMac with glossy screen and are using it for their work.I am a photographer and designer, and have mine on order for the 28th, however having read much about the displeas...

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Hello everyone,I recently purchased an Imac Core Duo 17" and everything has been going fine. A few days ago I attempted to play a 1080P trailer off of Apple trailers and it worked fine, very smooth frame rate. A while later I tried to play another one and halfway through, the screen goes blank...

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My 20-inch iMac, G5 has been experiencing the dreaded spinning beachball, particularly in iTunes (I have almost 13,000 songs). What are the recommended .plst files I should try deleting? One of my problems is I cannot do a safe boot -- the computer shuts down as I'm holding the shift key d...

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even since i installed leopard i cannot run the tasks on macjanitor, the buttons are are grey'd out and o is the options to run the tasks on the apple menue bar, i have no idea why, i know it works with leopard i think, but it dosent work for me, i have tryed re-downloading it, but i cant...

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For weeks I've been trying to update the firmware on my iMac, but every time I get to the part where it says to shut down, it says there is an unexpected error. Anyone know what the problem is? G5 iMac 2.33ghz Mac OS X (10.4.11) ...

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Is it possible to program or write yyour own jokes, in stead of the lame ones that come up when you say "tell me a joke"? Even if you can only make your own knockknock jokes thats okay....

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hello,sometimes when wakeup my imac and the screen is clarified,appear intermittent points that seconds last and soon they disappear,this passes coverall with dark colors, happens to him to somebody? Itake it to repair or is normal?Thank you very much.PD: thx Sherlock iMac G5 (2oed) Mac OS X (...

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I use an eye tv hybrid stick to watch tv and tape some tv programmes once in a while.Watching tv works fine, but when I record programmes I get short disturbing noises.In another discussion group I was told that these noises must be "broken GOPs" due to poor reception, so I should try to improv...

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When I play WoW on my iMac I notice after a while the top gets a bit hot. Not real hot, but it makes me worry it may over-heat. I read about smcFanControl and installed it, if I don't mess with the setting it says the iMac's temp while in WoW is around 55 degrees Celsius. Is that an o...

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I have been looking for a device or way to use my VSTs off my powerbook to conserve CPU. Does anyone out there know if the mini, in whatever configuration available can be used in this way and is it a viable alternative?1.5 G4 17" powerbook ? Mac OS X (10.3.9) ? 1.5 G4 17" powerbook Mac OS X (...

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Hi there.. i have a IMac G4 flat panel, the pod design. I just bought a Olympus Camedia X-550 Digital camera... I have a HP 3-in-one printer, scanner, copier, fax. It is model PSC 950. I know that the Olympus takes a xD memory card. Can those be used for the HP PSC 950? If not.. is there some a...

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Hello everyone,Ok, i buy an external HD, i made 2 partitions in it and i want to have a bootable backup in one of them..my questions:1) do i need an especific format?2) can i do that with disk utility?please feel free for any tips,Thanks you all! Mac OS X (10.4.3)...

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My roommate recently created a new network connection on the wireless router we both use to connect to the internet. I've been connecting through this router for months with no problems, but now, when I try to connect to the new network connection, I get an "error connecting to network" me...

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