Start Up Tricks?

I just got a new 2.7 G5 and it seems to be DOA.
I did start up once, and I was in the middle of downloading a bunch of software updates from Apple when it stopped. I had to hold down the power button to get it to turn off, and then couldn't get it started again. (The software update had just started... much more toward the beginning of the sequence than the end).
1. Tried starting in single user mode.. no start up chime, no light on the pwoer button on front.
2. Tried holding down the mouse button.. no start up chime, no powerbutton light, no DVD open drawer.
3. Plugged the USB Keyboard directly into the computer, no chime and no light, and no light on the Caps Lock button
4. Removed all 3rd party RAM and nothing changed.
Leaving it on eventually makes the fans roar, so I'm going to assume its not a power supply issue.
Any ideas of how to get this started so I can at least try to figure out what might be wrong?
TIA

The last "DOA" Mac I has was a Dual 1G G4MMD. It did just what you describe...booted once, never to boot again. The problem was that Apple refused to replace the machine as DOA since had it booted once. Instead, I had to send it in for repair where a "bad" processor was discovered and replaced. It sounds like you have a bad proc or MLB, neither of which are considered "user replaceable". You need to call Suooper and see if you can exchange your computer (don't count on it) or have it repaired.
DD

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So far I have been managing our programm in one single project file, using MS Project 2010. We are now asked by our customer to split it into several subprojects (project milestones, procurement, manufacturing...). Now I took the project files and copied
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The link information is absolute, i.e. with full path name. As I work on a network, it addes the complete server path name.
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The results of this are:
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Is there any way to implement relative links for the followers / predecessory of a task in an external project file? All files will be in one folder, so it would be easy.
Or can I link tasks to something else that the tasks ID?
Sorry if I got some terms wrong, using the german version of Project ;-)
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I know there are people who have poor experience with linked files and moving them; but (knock on wood), we do the following and it seems to work without "corruption". Project doesn't get confused about where files are since as far as it is concerned there
is no change regardless of the computer the files are sitting on. But beware, I guess, is all I can say.
What I do is declare space on the c: drive as the "standard" location for all files. for example, c:\data\projects\ProjectNameHere\. We put all file into that folder for anyone who works on the files. It's a rule. It's a simple rule which we
find that those who know how to drive Project know why that rule needed and they easily just do it. We also create a special startup icon for Project which sits on the desktop and we set the "start in" folder to be that folder. When
Project launches with that "start-in" set right, it finds all the files just fine. Right mouse click on the properties of the start-up icon to get access to this setting for the icon.
And added benefit of this approach is that you also can put in a standard project global.mpt file in that folder and when Project launches it uses *that* global.mpt (as it's the first place Project looks). Easier to handle one global.mpt for each project
than to try to have one global.mpt meet the needs of multiple projects with multiple people. It helps the collaboration on the project.
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c: drive location (a subfolder under "My Projects" is how it was recored in Project. Then I moved all four files to a completely different location on the file server (\\fileserver\filesharename\foldername\). I put the full path to the file server
in the "start-in" for the icon that launches Project (\\fileserver\filesharename\foldername) and launched project. Then opened the master project and Project see's the linked files in the "new" location with the full path of the file server shown. I
suspect this is because of the user of the "start-in" and rules inside Project to say "look in the current directory first".
My hunch is that this will work for you too. The trick seems to be to set the "start-in" folder in the Project desktop icon. We've used this start-in "trick" since Windows 3.1 days.
What we really now do is actually keep all the MPP files in a SharePoint library for reasons security and version control. We check them out to the prescribed folder (see above) and work on them from there. When done, check back into SharePoint. Works
(knock on wood).
I don't have a suggestion to make the ID's on the predecessors shorter. The fact is that now it is not good enough to say "1" for the task ID of the predecessor as there are now many tasks with ID "1" in the master file. Project has no option but to
show it. Would be nice if it just gave the file name, but then that also might not be good enough. I just ignore the long name and look at the Gant Chart lines. When important to look at it, I just widen the column and look. There might be
another field to show, or perhaps you can do a computed field to created a shortened way to denote the subproject. Experiment, I guess.
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[Short Version
Problem:
Need to move photos from G4 ibook to Intel macbook. Both run 10.5, so I assume iphoto 09. I don't know, because I don't use iPhoto. I use photoshop.
I would be happy to settle for extracting image files that can be imported into the new computer... but this process seems to fail each time.
attempted solutions:
copy "iPhoto Library" from pictures folder to hard drive, import on new computer.]
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I'm sure this has been asked before, as people tend to upgrade computers from time to time.
However, I've searched the boards and google for a half hour or so with mixed results.
A friend of mine has an old G4 ibook that she has recently replaced with a new intel macbook. Both run Leopard.
She would like to get rid of the G4, but can't figure out how to move her iPhoto library (or even the pictures without albums, etc.) from one mac to another.
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2 - If you move the entire iPhoto library intact as a single entity between the same version of iPhoto or to a newer version everything is automatic - you can not go backwards (iPhoto '08 can not read an iPhoto '09 library)
3 - you can always select the photos and export them (file menu ==> export)
4 - you can get the originals by right clicking (control clicking) on the iPhoto library and selecting show package contents (iPhoto '08 and '09 - not knowing the version involved makes this much more difficult) and copying the originals folder and moving it
Has anyone had success moving photos from one mac to another?
Thousand (probably millions) of people - if you know the versions involved you just drag it over and launch iPhoto
Another option that we haven't tried is to "Option + start iPhoto" trick, similar to my current iTunes setup (home LAN vs away) to access two libraries. To specify, holding option while launching iphoto then selecting the old iPhoto library that has been copied to an external.
This does not copy a library - it repoints iPhoto to a different library if the version are compatible (and may convert it to a newer version)
Basically you have not described the most critical piece of information - the iPhoto version on each computer
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After my daughter was messing around with the computer USB keyboard the keyboard stopped working, or rather the computer stopped recognizing the keyboard. Mouse works daisy chained through USB keyboard, keyboard works plugged into my Macbook Pro. My internet searches only come up with pseudo-ads for child-locking apps. I can't do my usual start-up tricks because I have no keyboard function (Pram etc)

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To activate "snag keys" at Startup, a wired keyboard must be plugged into a USB on the chassis, not on any display or other Hub, or it will be recognized too late to be seen.
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