OS X problems with Titanium PB G4

After trying to update OS 10.4.11 on my older PB G4 Titanium, I would get to the blue screen and the login window, but if I clicked on an account, the login window would disappear and then reappear. I could not log in. After numerous tries, I decided to reinstall the OS 10.4. But if would fail near the beginning of the install. So I tried installing 10.3 but it did the same thing. All these efforts were done using the archive and install. I even tried not preserving the settings, but that would not work.
Then I tried the Software Install and Restore disk that came with the PB G4. That worked, but I had to create a new account. So now I have some questions as to how to proceed from here:
1. Why would 10.4 and 10.3 not install, but 10.2.3 on the Software Install and Restore Disk did install? Is is safe to proceed to try to install 10.4 now? Should the hard drive be erased in that process?
2. With 10.2 running the old files are in the previous system folder, but the files for the account that was used are marked as not accessible. How do I copy those files to an external hard drive before doing an erase and install?

I've seen similar problems at multiple sites in various situations and in all instances it only affected the Macs and the PC's were fine. I'll try to be more specific by describing a recent event. Site A has 2 paths to the internet, the primary is through the local PIX firewall and the backup is through Site B that is connect via frame-relay and Site B's PIX firewall. The default router for Site A is a Cisco 4510 switch that learns it default route from OSPF messages from the PIX's and Frame-relay router. So, if Site A's PIX looses it's connection to the internet, the 4510 updates it's routing table to direct internet traffic through the frame-relay to Site B and it's PIX. All this works great for the PC's, but the Mac's have to reboot to be able to access the Internet when the routing changes. Recently the Internet T1 at site A went down. The routing tables updated with the path to Site B but the Mac users could not get email from the publicly addressed email server at another site. The Window's users were fine. After you reboot the Mac, it could then receive email. The nightmare started when the T1 would come up after about 30 minutes and then the Macs couldn't get email again. Wash, rinse and repeat.
Most of the clients use DHCP, some of them are static. They are all private IP's. Let me know if you need more info.

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Several problems with X-Fi titanium

#several problems with X-Fi titanium? hello there,
i already read a bit through the forums in hope to find a solution for my problems... but i didnt find any and english isnt my mother tongue so sometimes i didnt really understand...
to my problems:
i got my 2nd X-Fi titanium a few days ago (first one stoped working after 6 month usage)... i kinda hoped my previous problems would have been gone with the old card, but unfortenately they are still there...
first: the card does recognize when i plug in my headset into my front pannel and the the sound gets redirected to them... good so far... but when i pull off my headset and i want the sound to go back to my speakers... nothing happens... the card doesnt realize, that the headset is pulled off... i always have to open the software and turn off the "mute speaker automaticl" (no idea how its called in english..., hope you understand)...
the 2nd problem - and this is the worst one - is that from time to time the soundcard makes weird noise... like a scratching or crackling... its really horrible and the only way to get rid of that is sign off the computer and sign on again... this problem occurs without a warning... when i play a game (like WoW or FFXI online), or while im listening to music, sometimes even when i just work with office...
i already sent a mail to CL and of course the regular answer: deinstall drivers/software, install the newest ones... i did that but nothing changed...
is there any way to fix these problems? im a bit frustrated, since i spent a lot of money to get a decent/well quality...
some informations about my PC:
windows vista home premium, service pack
intel core 2 duo @ 2.66GhZ
2GB Ram
Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT
MSI P7N SLI Platinum
hope you can help... ty in advance
fen?

'Re: several problems with X-Fi titanium? Sorry to hear you're still having problems.
One more thing to check is that the correct drivers are installed. If you check in the device manager, make sure the Creative drivers are installed and not the Microsoft ones.
Also check in your BIOS that the front panel audio is set to HDAudio.
Make sure the on board audio is disabled as well.
-- If that isn't the case
I see that you've un-installed/re-installed the drivers... I hate to say, but...try again and make sure you have completely uninstalled the drivers before rebooting and reinstalling the latest 2.7.0007 drivers. Try a free uninstaller software called Revo uninstaller. It runs the softwares uninstaller then it searches the registry and HD for remnants.
Message Edited by rc9ball on 08-5-2009 04:04 AMMessage Edited by rc9ball on 08-5-2009 04:0 AM

Problem with Finder and Menu Fonts (uppercase A)

Hello --
I'm having a problem with fonts. All the characters that appear under icons in the Finder or in the menu for any application appear as uppercase As with boxes around them. There appears to be one uppercase A for each character that should be there. If I click-pause-click to edit the filename in the Finder, the text appears normal during the duration of the change, and then reverts to uppercase A with a box around it again. All other operation of the computer is normal.
I was watching and downloading video files in iTunes when the problem appeared. When I pressed ESC to exit full-screen mode, the Finder said that my start-up disk was almost full, and I saw the font problem. Upon investigating, I discovered that my start-up disk was completely full (and the download had failed), so the first thing I did was move some video files to an external drive, which freed about 5 GB.
Since freeing the space, I've tried the following to fix it, in this order:
1. booted from Tiger CD to run Repair Disk from Disk Utility
2. rebooted from the boot hard drive to run Repair Disk Permissions from Disk Utility
3. run through Disk Warrior
4. created a test admin user and logged in as that user
5. removed font cache files using terminal
6. booted in safe mode, logged in as myself, and then rebooted normally
None of these actions has had any effect. The computer is still operating normally, except for the characters that don't display correctly.
I'm running 10.4.6 on a Titanium Powerbook 500 MHz with 512MB RAM. A few months ago, I replaced the internal hard drive with an 80GB Seagate.
Tibook 500 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi again, zoobieboots —
I appreciate your initiating a new thread. Your post here helps to make the situation much clearer than in bmewolf's thread — particularly in terms of what you've already tried. Thanks again.
A few initial thoughts —
(a) As I was trying to suggest previously, you're apparently operating (after moving some files to an external drive) with ~6-10% (?) free disk space. Particularly given that you were working with large video files when this appeared, File fragmentation would be expected. While I haven't heard of this particular symptom resulting from fragmentation, that would be a concern to me — particularly since this immediately preceded the problematic behavior.
I've read some good reports about iDefrag, but haven't used it myself. A demo version is apparently available for HDs < 100GB. But you'd presumably need to free significantly more space first (you haven't actually said whether 5GB or ?? is the total available now). Having never experienced severe fragmentation, I don't fully understand its consequences — but another participant may be able to explain this.
<b>(b) You don't mention trying to troubleshoot potentially corrupt or incompatible fonts (or font caches), also as outlined in the other thread. As I suggested there, The X Lab's "undoing Font Book" FAQ is a useful resource in this.
(c) Although I agree it may be an unsatisfying "solution," an Archive & Install did work for bmewolf in the case that you've indicated matches yours closely.
I hope one of these suggestions is helpful. Please post back to discuss your progress.
Regards,
Dean

ITunes / Quicktime Video Problems With Windows VISTA

I took up Windows Vista as soon as it was available and initially had no problems with iTunes. Then later, video clips (those purchased from iTunes and those I had converted myself) started stuttering / freezing and eventually crashing iTunes and finally I lost audio as well.
Ayyway to cut a long story short, I have uninstalled / re-installed Vista now about eight times for problems with installing drivers for USB devices (I've finally solved all these problems). After the last install the first program I installed was iTunes, tried video and it worked flawlessly. Then, each time I added a hardware device or program I would restart Vista and retry iTunes video.
The first item I added was a USB thumb drive (as I had on all previous occasions to take advantage of Vista's 'Ready Boost'). The thumb drive is a 'Sony 2GB micro vault tiny', and meets the transfer speed requirements for 'Ready Boost', as soon as I had set the drive up for 'Ready Boost' I started having the same problems with iTunes video and Quicktime.
Removed the thumb drive, restarted iTunes and had flawless video playback again. Have tried this over and over with the same result.
So my question is, has anyone else had video playback problems with iTunes / Vista and found similar problems. Trying to tie down whether this is a compatability problem with 'Ready Boost' or the thumb drive used. I have also tried a Sandisk Titanium 2GB with the same result.
I am not sure exactly how 'Ready Boost' works, I thought it added memory that was used to cache page files to the thumb drive instead of to the HDD making a faster seek /access time? Which should make things faster. Another article I read today was talking about 'Ready Boost' being an affordable extension to RAM, in this case I could understand the problem as I would think the access to a USB 2.0 thumbdrive would be slower than that to RAM.
Any help appreciated, but I guess my bottom line is anytime I want to watch video on iTunes, I just pull the USB thumb drive .
PC Pentium 4 Other OS Windows Vista Home Premium

I have the same stuttering video issues with iTunes and Vista. While I have used a thumb drive to transfer files (not Sony) I have not yet messed with Ready boost. I have seen several others complain about the video problem, perhaps they will chime in as well. Unfortunately, your solution doesn't work for me. I pretty much ignore iTunes, waiting for the next version (only god knows when it will be released).
I do have an external firewire drive connected, I'll disconnect later today and see if that has any affect.

One more time - problems with fans

I realize this is but one of hundreds or possibly thousands of cases of Mac users being plagued by fan noise problems, but to me it has been a long and extremely frustrating saga. I have been a Mac user since the very beginning, through different versions of Macs and iMacs, and this is the first time I ever refer to a Macintosh as a "piece of junk."
I bought my iMac G5 in August 2005, a 20-inch ALS with 250 GB hard drive and 512 MB RAM. It worked perfectly until January this year, when all of sudden it shut down by itself. Freaked me out completely. Turned out to be power supply problem (EMC 2056) which Apple never informed me about.
I brought it to a repair shop that fixed the intermittent shut-down problem. I also added 1GB memory. But then the fans started to go berserk. Before the power supply problem, I only heard the fans whenever I used a large program like Photoshop. For the most part, it was a very quiet machine. After the power supply was replaced, within minutes of turning the iMac on, I could hear the fans spinning faster and faster, stabilizing at around 4400 rpm and did not stop spinning until I put the iMac to sleep or turned it off, regardless of CPU usage or software being used.
I checked the discussions at this forum (over 500 posts, no real answer) and did every "voodoo trick" suggested: I reset the SMU dozens of time, cleaned the inside of the iMac and around the fan area, did apple hardware test (everything was fine), monitored temperature and activity with XRG (average CPU at 160F, hard drive at 113F), cleaned out caches, tested for corrupt preferences, re-installed the original OS 10.4 (which only made the fans louder), upgraded it back to OS 10.4.9. I also removed the additional 1 GB memory, thinking it might be a bad piece. It didn't help.
Finally, I requested fan replacement from Apple and got them. I installed them last Sunday and now the problem is even worse! Within SECONDS of turning it on, the CPU T- Dio soars to around 170F, even while the machine is still stone cold to the touch. The hard drive temperature now averages at 117F, CPU fan is never below 4000 rpm (4400 rpm 98% of the time), even at 5-8% CPU usage.
The fans themselves are much quieter because they're brand new. But you can still hear the hums and whirs and it drives me nuts. More seriously, my iMac is now narcoleptic. If I use it too long (a few hours on a stretch) it will put itself to sleep, apparently because it thinks it is overheated. And when I use Photoshop or Illustrator, the awake time is even shorter. Depending on the outside temperature, at the most I can only use them for about an hour at a time. Two days ago we had heat wave, and even with the air conditioner running full blast in my study, the iMac kept falling asleep within minutes of using Illustrator.
Right now I am using TextEdit and no other program is running. Uptime is 59 minutes, average CPU 9.6%. CPU T-Dio is at 168.8F, hard drive 117.5F, CPU fan at 4400 rpm. I am out of ideas and before I do something drastic to this machine, if anyone knows what's going on with my iMac (I know every case is different), please help!
iMacG5 ECM 2056 Mac OS X (10.4.9) 20"/2.0GHz Power PC/1.5GB DDR SDRAM/250GB
iMacG5 ECM 2056 Mac OS X (10.4.9) 20"/2.0GHz Power PC/1.5GB DDR SDRAM/250GB

I do not have the solution... but the same problem with a nice iMac G5 purchased in July 2005.
My Mac operated very silently untill 6 month ago;problem MAY ( I am not sure) have started when I upgraded to 10.4.10 ; even with few applications and low CPU usage (80% or more inactive), it seems that I have the following regrettable chain of events;
==> the CPU temperature is quite high ( 60°c to 72°c most of the time, ie 140-160 °F)
==> resulting in fan turning at high speed ( 2.000 for CPU and system, 2500 for HD), and changing speed all the time
==> resulting in a noisy computer
I am SURE this was not the case 6 month ago, and I suspect it is linked to my upgrade to 10.4.10.
I did all sorts of reinstall, authorization repair, SMU reset, fan clean-up with no sucess.
iMac G5 (2005) Mac OS X (10.4.10) POwerbook G4 Titanium (2001)

A problem with my 2007 iMac

I hope I'm posting this in the right forum. I'm not convinced this is a problem with the keyboard specifically, although it will sound like it at first.
My iMac is one of the first aluminum Intel models, back when they first introduced them and still shipped with Tiger. I've updated to 10.6.3 which apparently comes with a freezing problem that's affecting a bunch of other people, and maybe this is related to that.
Apparently the computer will quite often suddenly and randomly act as if I'm pressing the Return key continuously. For example: even as I type this post, the cursor will frequently jump down to the next line within the text box and just keep going until I actually do jab down on the Return key and get it to stop. It does this with other applications too, and even when no applications are open (it makes that "boop" sound during those times, like it would if I had actually pressed a key on the keyboard) and I'm not even touching the keyboard. At first this problem was isolated to my Account Login screen after I force a restart when the iMac freezes (the boop sound and the login window jittering like it does when you enter a wrong password).
I assume this has something to do with the 10.6.3 issues other people have been reporting. Has anyone else had this problem?

Wow,, nice reply to those trying to help"'
I'm sorry, but sadly there is no magic switch - just try & evaluate.
Heres the info on OnyX (Free maintenance App):-
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english/apps.html
Maybe if you have an Apple Genius Bar or an Apple Approved Service Agent within close proximity it may be worthwhile to follow up with them..
Normally the latest Updates get rid of known Issues, if you run earlier versions later/corresponding Updates may give other issues...
PS..try a thrift shop for a basic USB k/b (new ones are $10.00) & returnable....L
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Video problem with movies that previously played okay

I transfer movies on and off my Touch to open up space. I previously copied a dvd using toast Titanium 8 to my touch which played fine. I then deleted it to make space. When I tried to transfer the movie back to the Touch a few days later it wouldn't copy, giving me the message "the video is not the right format..." etc.
Why would it copy over one time and not another.
Any help would be appreciated. I seem to find this to be a recurring problem with some files, even though they have been converted to iPod compatible files with Toast, which are the .mp4 variety. Same thing has happened occasionaly with iSquint.
Cheers
mrjazz

Probably because the iTunes file has an embedded Digital Rights Management certificate which prevents unauthorised publishing of copyright music to web sites such as Youtube.

Screen Problems with iMac G5 20" (iSight)

Hello!
I had the same problem with my iMac G5 20" (iSight) as described by Bob North Apr. 18, 2006 at http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/imacg5/topic2276.html#apr25:
"""" I repair Apple products, and recently I've seen strange and erratic display problems with the G5 flat-panel (iSight) 17" and 20"...and I am very curious about the origin. The picture will display what I will call "plaid pixles". Upon boot, the dispaly appears normal, but within 5-10 minutes, either at desktop or in ASD, the normal display will "crash" to the "plaid" display. The desktop, or whatever, can still be distinguished in the background, but it is overwashed by the plaid patterns -- which do change slightly, and also cover the full space of the screen. I've seen different scenarios, 3 in 2 weeks, where the symptom is exhibited with no particular failure pattern -- both before and after repair. I've replaced the main logic on one occasion, with no fix...but the 2nd try replaced both display panel and inverter. The display issue was fixed, but the system exhibited lockups only when it reached the destop. Another repair the same issue was seen after replacing the 20" main logic, where the symptom was not present previous. Personal opinion of the late 2005 IMAC flat-panels, in the hardware sense, is the likelihood of component manufacture issues, possibly the main logic boards or the panel displays themselves. Repair of this model, as opposed to the earlier, non-iSight flat-panel 17 and 20" models are extremely difficult -- access to main componenets is blocked by the display panel, which must be removed for each troubleshooting attempt. The internal hardware design is not oriented for repair ease...they are by far the most difficult to work on.
Any input regarding the display issues? Thanks.""""
I can't use the mouse or anything else, and after a while the fans start to go on max. This is the second time I encounter this problem within 30 days. What I have noticed is that the day before, the brightness of the screen started to "blink" slightly -- like if the screen tried to adjust itself.
But I haven't experienced what Bob North describes as the: "Upon boot, the dispaly appears normal, but within 5-10 minutes, either at desktop or in ASD, the normal display will "crash" to the "plaid" display".
I just restart with the power button and everything is working OK. I made an Extended Hardware test without any problems detected.
I have been looking for this issue with iMac G5 20" (iSight) and only found it at http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/imacg5/topic2276.html#apr25 :
Apr. 18, 2006
bob north
I repair Apple products, and recently I've seen strange and erratic display problems with the G5 flat-panel (iSight) 17" and 20"...and I am very curious about the origin. The picture will display what I will call "plaid pixles". Upon boot, the dispaly appears normal, but within 5-10 minutes, either at desktop or in ASD, the normal display will "crash" to the "plaid" display. The desktop, or whatever, can still be distinguished in the background, but it is overwashed by the plaid patterns -- which do change slightly, and also cover the full space of the screen. I've seen different scenarios, 3 in 2 weeks, where the symptom is exhibited with no particular failure pattern -- both before and after repair. I've replaced the main logic on one occasion, with no fix...but the 2nd try replaced both display panel and inverter. The display issue was fixed, but the system exhibited lockups only when it reached the destop. Another repair the same issue was seen after replacing the 20" main logic, where the symptom was not present previous. Personal opinion of the late 2005 IMAC flat-panels, in the hardware sense, is the likelihood of component manufacture issues, possibly the main logic boards or the panel displays themselves. Repair of this model, as opposed to the earlier, non-iSight flat-panel 17 and 20" models are extremely difficult -- access to main componenets is blocked by the display panel, which must be removed for each troubleshooting attempt. The internal hardware design is not oriented for repair ease...they are by far the most difficult to work on.
Any input regarding the display issues? Thanks.
Apr. 19, 2006
Robert Mohns
bob north describes: "...recently I've seen strange and erratic display problems with the G5 flat-panel (iSight) 17" and 20"...and I am very curious about the origin. The picture will display what I will call "plaid pixles". Upon boot, the dispaly appears normal, but within 5-10 minutes, either at desktop or in ASD, the normal display will "crash" to the "plaid" display. The desktop, or whatever, can still be distinguished in the background, but it is overwashed by the plaid patterns -- which do change slightly, and also cover the full space of the screen."
Does it look anything like this?
http://downwardspiral.net/gallery/pbg4-display
My nearly 3 year old Titanium PowerBook G4 just did this one day, out of the blue. The problem went away after a few minutes, but I had already taken photos. Thanks to those photos, Apple gave the powerbook a new logic board.
(This PowerBook has had its logic board replaced twice, a new optical drive, and a cracked case edge replaced. AppleCare has more than paid for itself. Despite the occasional problems, I remain very happy with this machine. I'm sure I'd be much less happy if I had not bought AppleCare!)
Hubert

Hubert Frank,
To Apple Discussions!
What troubleshooting methods have you tried to solve your issue?
The knowledgeable users will need this info to avoid the "been there, done that" senerios.
Have you tried the methods mentioned in the following Knowledge Base Article?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301283 Troubleshooting when there's no picture on the display
Do you have AppleCare? If so, have you contacted them? If so, outcome?

Problems with audio playback in 10.3.9

hi all- I've got a really weird problem with the audio playback of my G5; when I try and play an mp3 (in Itunes or in the finder window as a preview) the playback "stutters" arbitrarily. This goes for any mp3 - Has anyone come accross this type of problem before?
I've run checks both with my external soundcard (a motu 828 firewire card) and apple's internal sound, but this seems to be some sort of software problem.
HELP!!! I'm tearing the (little) hair I have out!!!
thanks
Lolo
Power mac G5 2x2 Ghz & G4 titanium 667 mhz Mac OS X (10.3.9) 512 ram on G5 and 1 gig ram on G4; both computers are used for audi home studio

Right.. 10.3.x doesn't automatically pull down mobile users' files. It only creates a new local account on the machine, but gives you the control over the account through WGM.
BTW- if you want to sync the ~/Library folder, you will need to use 10.4.3 Client (I think) and above.
_Brett

Facebook issue with Titanium Powerbook

Hi, I bought a Titanium model powerbook as a spare and it works fine apart from when I use facebook the display seems all the way to the left ( all the pics and writing are on the left of the page with the other two thirds plain )
All other websites seem to work fine just facebook being a problem
When I check it the software appears to be up to date ( OS X 10.3.9 ) is this Panther ?
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thanks Carolyn; I have the same problem with my old G4/400 that runs OSX 1.3.9 with Safari version 1.3.2. Just wanted the original poster to know that he's not the only one with the issue. I guess it's time we upgraded these older Macs to a newer OS.
I looked at Safari Help\Installed Plug-Ins and found a couple of items listed twice. I looked in the Internet Plug-ins folder in the Library Folder (not the user library, the one above it) where all the plug-ins reside, and there were a lot of plug-in files and plug-in folders in there. It wasn't clear for example why the quicktime plugin details were listed twice (with two different quicktime plugin items in the Plug-ins Folder) and also why there is a Java Applet Plugin as well as a JavaPluginCocoa.bundle. We users havent' a clue whether we've somehow got duplicated items in there, that might be interacting adversely. I guess for most of us the sad answer is to do a brute force upgrade to a new OS and hope everything works after many hours of upgrading ****, resolving program incompatibilities and upgrades, etc.
I'll submit a bug report to Facebook but not sure it will do much good. However, one has to wonder why facebook seems to be the 'only' web page showing this glitch since their site is so dependent on networking and getting as many people as possible using facebook. Theirs is the last kind of web site that should be using non-backward-compatible software technologies. Their programmers may be kind of shooting themselves in the foot.

Strange problem with HD

I'm having a strange problem with my titanium 15" Powerbook G4 (I believe it's 867Mhz). When I start it up, I get a flashing question mark/folder, and I can't boot into safe mode or make it start up past that question mark.
Here's the really weird part-- the hard drive is completely fine. I booted it in target mode, was able to access all files on it, transfer files to and from it, and when I ran disk utility, everything was fine.
I heard disk utility doesn't catch everything, so I ran fsck 3 or 4 times with both the -f and -r options (to rebuild the file catalog), and it came up with 0 errors.
I think it's just not recognizing the hard drive as the boot volume, but when I press option on startup to select it, it doesn't pop up in the list-- so there's no way to select it.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Tim

I reinstalled Leopard on it using the target disk method (because the DVD drive is broken on the computer). It installed fine, and I can see all system files on it, but I can't boot off of it-- same problem. Thanks for the suggestion... any others?
Tim

Problem with fonts after lion install

after installing lion, font book detects problems with fonts

Likely a corrupted font cache.
Download the free OnyX and run all the cleaning and maintainence aspects and reboot.
http://www.titanium.free.fr/
Read my post about backup, repair and restore options and the link to Pondini's TimeMachine page
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16276201#16276201

Hi. I have got problem with my ITunes. Every time I´m opening the program I´ve got the message: One unkwown problem is appering (-42032) Can anybode please tell me what to do wit this error? Thanks

Hi. I have got problem with my ITunes. Every time I´m opening the program I´ve got the message: One unkwown problem is appering (-42032) Can anybode please tell me what to do wit this error? Thanks

Gary,
discussions may sometimes be slow for an hour or so (at which point the opening page of discussions will eventually apologize for the inconvenience, back on line soon...) but your description looks like a cache problem.
Try OnyX freeware to do some cleanup and see if that helps.
http://www.titanium.free.fr/index.html

Problem with PCI Card Slot

Is there a way to try to test this thing's PCI Slot?
I have a Dazzle SmartMedia Card Adapter and it has stopped working. Nothing happens when inserted. I bought a 2nd card and trying to install it, the same thing. Nothing. So now, I'm trying to decide if its the card slot, the upgrade to 10.4.10 or Sophos Anti-Virus software.

Hi, Marty. Your card slot's connection to the logic board may have loosened; that happens sometimes with Titanium Powerbooks, especially those that are handled and transported often. Flexing of the PB's case and frame is the cause. If that's your problem, it's very easy to remedy.
Release your keyboard catches and gently tip the keyboard back over onto the wrist rests and trackpad, being careful not to jerk its ribbon cable. You needn't disconnect the cable. Beneath the normal positions of the X and D keys is a translucent plastic rectangular tab about 1" x 3/8". That tab is the card slot's connector to the logic board. Press down very firmly on it with two
fingertips. If you feel or hear it shift even the smallest amount, it was probably a little loose, and is now properly seated again. Put the keyboard back in position and test the card slot. Let us know how you fare.

Another problem with G4 500mhz

Ok i solved my earlier problem with the power, now I have another. But this time its not real serious. Well as you know I bought my computer used from the highschool through a auction, well i finally got my computer to turn on, but now when it turns on, 2 user profiles pop up asking for passwords (one of them being a teachers side). And I have no clue how to get around this. So if theres any way please let me know. Thanks

Well… the nicest solution would be to reformat the drive and reinstall Mac OS X and the software you need to use. Thing is, I'm assuming you don't have have Mac OS X or software.
So, one thing you can do is to contact AppleCare (their number will be in Apple's support pages) and have them send you out a replacement copy of the installation discs. They'll charge you a nominal fee for doing so but I highly recommend you do this.
That'll get you started.
If you want to do anything tricker than that you will probably need some else's help as well as the help of their Mac. Otherwise, you can just duck down to an Apple Store/Reseller and get yourself a copy of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and iLife 06. More expensive although will be all current versions rather than the Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) that comes with a 500MHz Titanium.

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