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Still no luck... It will randomly work for a... 880 Views / 3 Replies  
Still no luck... It will randomly work for a split second sometimes. Did the soldering come loose or something?
Posted by HWA AFI, on Jan 22, 2007 at 05:11 PM, in Mac Notebooks
anyone? 880 Views / 3 Replies  
anyone?
Posted by HWA AFI, on Jan 16, 2007 at 07:39 PM, in Mac Notebooks
ibook g4 touchpad stopped working 880 Views / 3 Replies  
Well after having some keyboard issues I posted about HERE (http://forums.macnn.com/66/ibook-and-macbook/322284/ibook-g4-num-lock-issue/) my touchpad started skipping at times and eventually just...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Jan 12, 2007 at 07:25 PM, in Mac Notebooks
ibook g4 num lock issue 876 Views / 1 Replies  
I've had the laptop just over 2 years now, it's a 1.2ghz g4 12" running OS X 10.3.9. The number lock is randomly enabling it's self (light stays off) and the backspace key won't work. Rebooting won't...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Dec 29, 2006 at 04:03 PM, in Mac Notebooks
pbfixit THATS the site I remembered! Thanks man... 3,213 Views / 32 Replies  
pbfixit THATS the site I remembered! Thanks man :) I've been building PCs and overclocking/volt modding them for 5 years. I think I can remove some screws. The warrenty will be up within a month and...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 18, 2005 at 04:13 PM, in Mac Notebooks
I got stuff to take it apart with, just need to... 3,213 Views / 32 Replies  
I got stuff to take it apart with, just need to find a good guide. Putting it back together can't be that hard, I read it's ONLY like 40 screws...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 18, 2005 at 12:01 AM, in Mac Notebooks
7200RPM drive in ibook g4 3,213 Views / 32 Replies  
I'm sick of this thing being slow so it's time for a 7200 RPM drive with tiger but I have some questions:
how long does it take to pull this thing apart and put it back together? Not that I care how...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 17, 2005 at 10:24 PM, in Mac Notebooks
The hitachi? I saw 4 of those there. Not sure... 8,889 Views / 79 Replies  
The hitachi? I saw 4 of those there. Not sure what the difference is other than size. The read/write times look the same... And very slow at that. Then agian I'm used to my 74gb raptor :D
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 17, 2005 at 07:43 PM, in macOS
temp monitor lite says I'm around 58c idle and a... 8,889 Views / 79 Replies  
temp monitor lite says I'm around 58c idle and a max of 66c loaded on the cpu and gpu which is pretty safe. I'll try a new user account but last night I decided I'm going to swap for a 7200 RPM drive...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 17, 2005 at 04:17 PM, in macOS
Well what's wrong with my computer then? 8,889 Views / 79 Replies  
Well what's wrong with my computer then?
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 17, 2005 at 03:56 PM, in macOS
I had that problem with diablo 2 then I used the... 1,787 Views / 7 Replies  
I had that problem with diablo 2 then I used the OS X installer for it. Now I have classic mode installed somehow. I really don't have any advice for your problem though :(
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 17, 2005 at 03:54 PM, in Mac Notebooks
My iphoto library isn't that large and neither it... 8,889 Views / 79 Replies  
My iphoto library isn't that large and neither it or bit torrent are open at the moment.

Thanks for the advice alpha :) How do I delete caches? I'll try reparing premissions now. DiskWarrior is a...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 16, 2005 at 09:31 PM, in macOS
Ok... 50333/6519 in/out. Still looks bad to me.... 8,889 Views / 79 Replies  
Ok... 50333/6519 in/out. Still looks bad to me. If I close an app I want it's damn ram back.
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 16, 2005 at 07:23 PM, in macOS
10.3.9 on a 12" ibook 1.2ghz G4 1.25gb ram 60gb... 8,889 Views / 79 Replies  
10.3.9 on a 12" ibook 1.2ghz G4 1.25gb ram 60gb hdd 9200 mobility.

I usually run itunes, firefox, adium, bit torrent, calculator, safari, xirc, text edit, activity monitor, and sometimes iphoto or...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 16, 2005 at 06:49 PM, in macOS
As much as I love this mac, it's slow as hell... 8,889 Views / 79 Replies  
As much as I love this mac, it's slow as hell compared to my PC. I even lag typing some times. I maxed the ram at 1.25gb before I even turned it on so that's not a problem. With my PC I have 100%...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 16, 2005 at 05:44 PM, in macOS
1: I haven't had any problems with mine, but it... 1,291 Views / 15 Replies  
1: I haven't had any problems with mine, but it was ordered about a year ago. Not so sure how the newer ones are holding up
2: It's more than 1000. You need to add a gig of ram (180ish IIRC) or at...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 16, 2005 at 05:37 PM, in Mac Notebooks
754 is dead and slow. Save up money and get... 1,089 Views / 17 Replies  
754 is dead and slow. Save up money and get something like I reccomended. At 500 dollars you'd be FAR happier than an xbox 360 then a computer that can hadly run todays games at decent settings, none...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 16, 2005 at 05:35 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Oh god... 40gb hdd and 2mb cache? SLOWWWWWWW and... 1,089 Views / 17 Replies  
Oh god... 40gb hdd and 2mb cache? SLOWWWWWWW and tiny. x700 sucks, and that case is ugly. Not to mention the PSU in that is garbage and could easily take out your entire system. Keep saving and get...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 15, 2005 at 10:32 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Done that... I'm just looking for anything I can... 8,889 Views / 79 Replies  
Done that... I'm just looking for anything I can edit to make this thing faster.
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 15, 2005 at 10:22 PM, in macOS
You've pretty much sold it on your self with all... 1,017 Views / 12 Replies  
You've pretty much sold it on your self with all the "selling points" you've added bro ;) Sounds like a good deal to me as long as you want it and it's in good condition.
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 15, 2005 at 09:34 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Very nice apple mod :thumbsup: I've thought about... 1,089 Views / 17 Replies  
Very nice apple mod :thumbsup: I've thought about swapping the hdd out on mine for a 7200 RPM drive and maybe doing some painting...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 15, 2005 at 09:25 PM, in Mac Notebooks
If you're running an older version without file... 1,028 Views / 16 Replies  
If you're running an older version without file transfering it will randomly crash if people attempt to direct connect or file transfer... Happened to me a lot before I upgraded.
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 15, 2005 at 09:22 PM, in Applications
Sticky: How does growl work? It got installed with adium... 398,272 Views / 560 Replies  
How does growl work? It got installed with adium but I don't know what it does...

My favorites so far from my short mac career:

ADIUM my god this is the best IM client I've ever used...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 15, 2005 at 09:20 PM, in Applications
Performance tweaks for OS X? 8,889 Views / 79 Replies  
I've been running a mac for 11 months now and I hardly know anything about the OS aside from basic commands and useage. In win XP/2k theres a lot of things you can tweak to speed it up and squeeze...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 15, 2005 at 08:56 PM, in macOS
Glad to see it worked out for you! I might play... 1,089 Views / 17 Replies  
Glad to see it worked out for you! I might play around with it later... Thanks for the link to openmark, I didn't know there were mac benchmarks :) I've had this thing 11 months and I'm still a...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 15, 2005 at 08:48 PM, in Mac Notebooks
I have no clue. I saw no performance difference... 1,089 Views / 17 Replies  
I have no clue. I saw no performance difference so I'd say don't bother.

What's "windowServer" in my activity monitor? It seems to be eating up a lot of my CPU...

Played a bit of ut2k4 with no...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 15, 2005 at 07:32 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Well things are NOT looking good... Apple must be... 1,089 Views / 17 Replies  
Well things are NOT looking good... Apple must be using some crappy 9200 chips :( I opened ut2k4 for a bit to see how hot the GPU got under load... 58C. Fan didn't come on though. I started cranking...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 15, 2005 at 07:18 PM, in Mac Notebooks
AA 2.5 yes, I'm about to give this a shot. I had... 1,089 Views / 17 Replies  
AA 2.5 yes, I'm about to give this a shot. I had to eat and do some other stuff. ANYWAY I did some searching and saw that a 9200 mobility is clocked 5-10% higher than the 9000 mobility which is...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 15, 2005 at 07:01 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Has anyone run Americas Army on an ibook? Also, overclocking...? 1,089 Views / 17 Replies  
I'm a die hard PC gamer but I happened to blow my CPU up last friday so I'm stuck with my ibook until this friday when my new stuff comes. I have warcraft3 tft and ut2k4 demo on here but I'm sick of...
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 15, 2005 at 05:11 PM, in Mac Notebooks
To lazy to take a new pic so heres one from a few... 75,798 Views / 417 Replies  
To lazy to take a new pic so heres one from a few weeks ago. My 12" ibook 1.2ghz g4, 1.25gb ram, 9200 mobility, 60gb hdd, ect. sitting next to one of my PCs :D
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Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 15, 2005 at 05:02 PM, in Mac Notebooks
When they said first out the door with dual core... 1,980 Views / 39 Replies  
When they said first out the door with dual core does that mean we're going to see dual core yohna based ibooks :O
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 15, 2005 at 04:53 PM, in Mac Notebooks
The only "accesossory" I use with my ibook is the... 1,203 Views / 11 Replies  
The only "accesossory" I use with my ibook is the iskin keyboard protector. I decided to pick one up for 20 bucks (steep price but worth it) at the apple store one day shortly after getting my ibook....
Posted by HWA AFI, on Nov 15, 2005 at 04:41 PM, in Mac Notebooks
 
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