SJ, apple has suggestions:
Well, look who just popped open a fresh can of venom.
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Sue - Dec 24, 2008 5:00:45 pm PST #8472 of 25501
hip deep in pie
sj - Dec 24, 2008 5:08:11 pm PST #8473 of 25501
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Thanks, Sue. I gave it to TCG, who fixed it.
beekaytee - Dec 24, 2008 7:10:07 pm PST #8474 of 25501
Compassionately intolerant
Ugh. I should have said the power button STILL wouldn't work.
My friend gave me ANOTHER G4, which turns out not to help all that much as it is 733mz model which will not allow me to upgrade to 10.4, or download flash or, firefox, or anything else of much use.
It's now I have 5, count them, FIVE macs...three of which work great, except that the tech world has passed them by.
As for the recalcitrant G4, I swapped out the battery with the 733 model, as that one is proven to work.
This time, when I hit the power button, it glowed white for a minute and I could hear the fans whirring...so power...but no chime and no screen.
Nada. The blackness of the blackest black.
Is this mini mac at dealmac a good deal?
Is there a better deal anywhere? Anybody upgrading and want to sell a poor therapist something that will actually work?
I feel like I should head out on the street with a sandwich board that says, "Will trade peace of mind/problem solving for good quality tech.
I wouldn't even be kidding.
DCJensen - Dec 24, 2008 7:34:11 pm PST #8475 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
My friend gave me ANOTHER G4, which turns out not to help all that much as it is 733mz model which will not allow me to upgrade to 10.4, or download flash or, firefox, or anything else of much use.
Bwuh? I have a 450 Mhz G4 and I'm running 10.4.11
I run flash, firefox, etc.
beekaytee - Dec 24, 2008 10:37:39 pm PST #8476 of 25501
Compassionately intolerant
Ah well.
I seem to have discovered the problem. There is no dvd player, which is why, I'm assuming, my 10.4 disc won't work.
The flash installer tells me it needs 10.4.
Firefox says, unable to install.
Apparently everything needs 10.4 but I can't install it.
I am so weary of these issues. Seriously.
DCJensen - Dec 25, 2008 6:13:04 am PST #8477 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Can you take the dvd drive from one of the others?
vw bug - Dec 28, 2008 7:37:43 am PST #8478 of 25501
Mostly lurking...
Ugh. I have a Phillips DVD+-RW SDVD8820 on my laptop. I'm trying to burn DVDs of video files from Christmas, but I keep getting an error message saying the files can't be copied to the DVD. I remember having this problem before and finding a solution, but can't for the life of me remember what that was. Any ideas?
omnis_audis - Dec 28, 2008 8:32:36 am PST #8479 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I've found with burning DVD's and getting errors, that it's typically the burner doesn't like the media. Have you used that media in that burner before? If not, try a different brand.
vw bug - Dec 28, 2008 8:44:40 am PST #8480 of 25501
Mostly lurking...
I'm pretty sure I have, but it's been like nine months.
Consuela - Dec 28, 2008 9:06:42 am PST #8481 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
vw bug, one of the problems I've been having lately with my dvd burner is that the laptop forgets it's a recordable drive. The way to fix that is to go to My Computer, right-click on the dvd drive, open up properties, and click the box that says "record on this device" or wtte.
I don't know if that's your problem, but it was driving me NUTs.