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What sort of computer have you got?
I am on my dad's old iMac os 8.6 right now, but usually on work's system with lightning fast broadband. I own an eMac g4 but it crashed some months ago and I can't afford to have it fixed right now. How many of you have a Mac? I bought one because I reckoned I was some kind of designery guy but now realise if anything goes wrong it's a nightmare. I don't know very much about computers or anything but it would be interesting to know what people spend their days staring at...
I am on my dad's old iMac os 8.6 right now, but usually on work's system with lightning fast broadband. I own an eMac g4 but it crashed some months ago and I can't afford to have it fixed right now. How many of you have a Mac? I bought one because I reckoned I was some kind of designery guy but now realise if anything goes wrong it's a nightmare. I don't know very much about computers or anything but it would be interesting to know what people spend their days staring at...
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i built my own PC with a AMD Athlon XP 2600+, 512 MB samsung memory, ATI Radeon 9000 VGA card with 128 MB memory, samsung DVD dual layer writer a forthcoming to conking out LG DVD drive, a nearly anonimouse 15" LCD monitor, i use my mobile as the mobem conected via a hanna infrared to usb adapter medi@com wireless mouse and speakers, an asus motherboard that i forget the name of and for audio i use an old soundblaster 128 creative card that give less noise thatthe onboard audio and takes some work off the processor. the best thing of all this is that i put it in a custom case that is like a tv monitor on the front and pc behind.
if you have the installation disc that came with the machine, start the machine, and put the disc in. ( i am assuming it wont load the OS, but will power on.) reboot the machine while holding down the c key. It will try to boot from the disc and give you formatting options. you should be able to reload the system software without losing your other programs and data
I have a Sony Viao Desktop, can't remember the spec but its something like a 3Ghz 1Gb RAM etc etc. But it's got hyperthreading which caused havoc with USB peripherals. (to the point where they were useless) so I decided to get another computer. It's a MacMini which I'm very happy with. I also have a Compaq Laptop and they all connect via a wireless broadband router.
I'd agree about the Mac, I'm more than happy with the MacMini but that's mainly because it cost less than �400. I wouldn't buy a iMac or one of the G5's because they just cost way to much.
I'd agree about the Mac, I'm more than happy with the MacMini but that's mainly because it cost less than �400. I wouldn't buy a iMac or one of the G5's because they just cost way to much.
At home I use a Mac - G4 tower. It's running 0S 10.2.8. At work I use a G5 Mac, all singing and dancing.
With you eMac ridgie74 is right. It's running OSX, so pop in Disc 1 of the master discs; shutdown and restart and hold down the C Key (to make it boot up from the CD) Then you can reinstall the System Software. Any probs, post back on here and will try to talk you down.
With you eMac ridgie74 is right. It's running OSX, so pop in Disc 1 of the master discs; shutdown and restart and hold down the C Key (to make it boot up from the CD) Then you can reinstall the System Software. Any probs, post back on here and will try to talk you down.
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